Curriculum Overview for Foundation Stage/Ducklings Transport and Journeys/Holidays and the Seaside/Pirates Communication & Physical Development Physical Development Language Moving and Handling Health & Self care Retelling familiar stories in their Being able to respond to stories Exploring moving safely through a space Being aware of how our bodies are affected by own words they have read or heard, able to in different ways for e.g. like a train or
Summer 2nd Half-Term
Listening to a range of different stories/information Mr Gumpy’s Outing, The Train Ride, The Giving simple explanations such predict outcomes, retell or recall Journey Home from Grandpa’s, as explaining why a particular car main events and answer Commotion in the Ocean and travelled the furthest. questions The Rainbow Fish Speaking in sentences that are Understanding how and why Listening to visitors such as grammatically correct, in terms questions about different places the school nurse to talk of verb tense, for e.g. I have and investigations about sun safety been on holiday to…, I am going Following simple instructions on holiday to…
pretending to row a boat Practising joining consonant clusters and vowel digraphs together in our handwriting Using different tools and materials safely and with control
Understanding the World The World
Personal, Social & Emotional Development
Looking at how they have grown and changed over the year, what can they do now? Explaining to the class about what they have been doing or learning, sharing this in our end of day reflection and focus time, looking at work and photographs, celebrating achievements
about others and their feelings Looking at different feelings involved with changes as the Turn taking in games, playing move to Year One nears and working cooperatively in groups together Exploring how to respond Listening to the ideas of others appropriately to different and sharing ideas of how to feelings that we experience complete a challenge. Working towards achieving credits on our Carleton Code passports for examples of positive behaviour
Literacy/Reading
Being able to blend and read words and captions with, 3 and 4 phonemes and consonant clusters in Recognising by sight the tricky and high frequency words from phase 3 and 4 and applying this in their reading Being able to apply the above skills in their guided reading with the teacher and at home in their individual reading books, reading from the Oxford Reading Tree Scheme To show that they have understood what they have read by recalling main events, characters and information accurately. Reading non-fiction books about our topics
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Learning how to think more
Literacy/Writing
Being able to segment and spell words and captions with Phase 3 and 4 phonemes in Beginning to write some of the tricky and high frequency words in their independent writing correctly Writing simple captions and sentences which can be read by themselves and others, for e.g. their own Train Ride stories or make information books about different forms of transport. Some words to be spelt correctly and others that are phonetically plausible
People & Communities
Exploring making different bridges out of play dough and pasta Making junk model boats Printing trains and boats with 3D shapes Using giant rollers and vehicles to paint with Marble inking to make fish and wax resist sea pictures
Expressive Arts and Design Being Imaginative
Solving real life addition and subtraction problems with the toy vehicles/boats/fish Counting in different steps, forwards and backwards to help + and Exploring sharing, including halving. Sharing out the pirate treasure or the fish in the fishing nets Matching the doubles in the buried treasure
Role playing in the bus station, airport checkin, ice-cream shop or being a lollipop person Singing, dancing and moving to new songs about transport and the seaside Retelling familiar stories using story cards, puppets and props
Mathematics/Shape,Space & Measures
Mathematics/Number
Exploring stories from different religions and faiths Celebrations such as Father’s Day, Eid How families are different Transport and the seaside in the past
Exploring the similarities and differences between different places around the worls The plants and animals that are found in different places Investigating floating and sinking, friction on a Technology Using the iPads to take photographs of our road surface and making the strongest bridge learning for a train to cross. Using the Beebots to programme and control Investigating the vehicle that travels the furthest them down a ramp or the best material to travel along
Expressive Arts and Design Exploring using media and materials
exercise Learning how to be safe out and about near roads, how to cross the road with an adult in a safe place Learning about sun safety and how to be safe near water
Exploring the distance travelled by different vehicles Using counting to carry out traffic surveys and find out how our class travels to school, make tally charts and pictograms Use 2D and 3D shapes to make pictures and name some of their properties.
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