Eastborough J I & N School - Curriculum
Foundation
Stage
Autumn 1: All About Me
Autumn 2: Mega Structures
Literacy /
Communication
& Language
Texts: Fiction – Children’s personal selection in reading area,
Funnybones
Non-fiction books about ourselves
Rule books – ‘we look after our property’ etc
Nursery Rhymes and poems in the environment
 Talk about personal visits to the park
 Listen to texts/rhymes on the tape-recorder
 Retell above texts with magnetic story props/small world
toys/puppets
 Set up listening area where children can enjoy rhymes
and stories
 Encourage children to explain their experiences and
introduce new vocabulary with responses.
 Provide EAL children with opportunities to use home
language.
 Children to take home ‘home school communication’
packs with library books and ideas for rhymes and poems
to share at home.
 Adults supporting child led activities and encouraging
speaking and listening.
 Adult led activities modelling language and use of reading
and writing. E.g. following a recipe to make playdough
 Talk about ourselves and our experiences in news time
 Bring in our favourite toys and talk about them
 Form letters in name correctly using pens, paints, sand,
by labelling models
 Opportunities for writing in all areas of the classroom –
clipboards, dry wipe boards etc
 Activities which include gross motor skills swirling
ribbons, painting, climbing
Texts: “The three little pigs”
“The house that Jack built?”
“Wait and See”
“Lucy and Tom go to school”
Various non-fiction & Christmas stories.
 Develop role play area into a home corner, shop,
school, hospital, post office, estate agent etc
 Talk about a personal visit to the shops, hospital,
baby clinic, religious building, post office, castle
 Retell above texts with /small world toys/puppets
 Describe scene from bedroom window
 Write shopping lists using packaging
 Discuss and talk about the constructions children
have made.
 Listen to stories on CD player
 Retell stories using small world toys/puppets
 Describe scene from bedroom window
 Compose sound pattern poems about building a wall
 Make books in a house shape
 Contribute to big class information book about
buildings
 Make a thank-you letter to a visitor
 Contribute to class lift the flap book called “Who’s at
the door?”
 Make Christmas cards
 Form letters in name correctly using pens, paints,
sand, by labelling models + signing up for class
surveys.
 Read, write ink programme for teaching phonics.
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Foundation
Stage
Activities to develop fine motor – popping bubbles,
threading activites, small construction
Name recognition and writing
Read, write ink programme for teaching phonics.
Autumn 1
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Maths
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Number rhymes and songs.
Sorting and matching colours
Counting activities
Shape jigsaws
Sort/count sets of animals, compare bears, play people,
shapes and other classroom objects by size and
compare and order
Play counting games using fingers (and toes)
Use paper/magnetic shapes to make 2d pictures
Provide number labels in the environment – e.g bikes,
snack tables
Encourage mathematical vocabulary during snack time –
discuss sharing amounts of objects talk about 1 more,
less, full, empty etc
Sort cups, plates, knives and forks in home corner
Set up colour display and encourage children to sort
objects by colour
Use pictures and props to illustrate counting rhymes
Walk around school and look for shapes in our
environment
Support construction play and introduce language
relating to shape and number
Autumn 2
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Add numbers in windows to make totals in door in number
house
Play at adding and subtracting in classroom shop up to
10p (use pennies only)
Buy x and y. How many pennies?
Make guessing cards for shapes with clues describing
attributes
Describe shapes when showing models to the rest of the
class.
Make shape pictures of different types of buildings
Count different shapes in classroom
Use shapes to make junk and construction models –
compare sizes
Match 2D shapes to 3D faces
Solve simple practical problems e.g. packing belongings
into boxes
Create a picture of a tall block of flats - answer questions
using ordinal number and positional language
Compare door numbers (more/less)
Use a street scene as a number line
Building for a purpose
The house that Jack built game.
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Foundation
Stage
Look at and count parts of our bodies
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Autumn 1
Autumn 2
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Understanding
the World
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Touch different fabrics and materials in class feely
book/alphabet/names and describe
Play feely bag games, describing objects hidden within
Draw round a child and name/label body parts
Learn about finding books in the library.
Walk around the local environment and look at different
homes which we live in
Make our homes using construction materials
Talk about our homes. families and places that we go to,
compare to other children and discuss
Use photographs and labels around the classroom
Discuss weather and changes through the term
Show the children how to use ICT such as mini laptops,
bee bots and talking telephones.
Ask parents to share objects and photographs from
home for children to discuss.
Provide play maps and small world equipment for
children to create their own environments
Make an ‘ourselves’ book showing photographs of the
different activities we have been doing to tell people
about us.
Wrapping Christmas presents.
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Make a small world play mat with houses, shops, a school
and other buildings
Make individual junk model buildings for play mat
Make construction houses and furniture
Design and build a school playground using junk materials,
construction kits or wood
Evaluate models by saying what you like and don’t like
about it.
Sort range building materials into brick, plastic, metal.
Use hammers, screwdrivers and spanners with tiles, bricks,
pipes and other building materials
Make block of flats using shoe boxes and junk model
materials for furniture.
Make windows by exploring transparency in materials
Build sandcastles with wet and dry sand
Make tents/teepees in the outdoor area
Make furniture using balsa wood
Listen to stories on the CD player
Word process classroom labels
Draw a building on Dazzle
Go on local walks to take photos of children’s doors, find
out about local shops, sketch a religious building
Discuss functions of the different buildings in the local area.
Talk about the outing to a local building site
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Expressive Arts
& Design
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Sing songs relating to body parts e.g. “heads, shoulders,
knees and toes”, “1 finger, 1 thumb”, “Tommy Thumb”,
“Clap your hands and wiggle your fingers”, “If you’re
happy and you know it clap your hands”
Explore using body parts, including voices, to make
sounds
Clap syllables in children’s names and make into
patterns over a steady beat
Explore different ways of making sounds with musical
instruments
Explore tools for painting; brushes, sponges, rags and
fingers, use these tools to print patterns
Names colours and experiment with them
Painting self-portraits, looking in a mirror at our facial
features
Provide different objects and materials in discovery trays
that the children can explore. Adults to encourage
vocabulary which will enable children to talk about their
experiences.
Set up home corners.
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Contribute to three little pigs collage using, straw, sticks
and print with bricks
Observation drawings of special building or place of
worship
Rubbings of textures around the school
Print brick patterns for model houses
Make a small world play mat using collage/junk
Paint junk models of buildings
Sing songs relating to buildings “The wise man built his
house about the rocks”, “Linstead Market”, “In a cottage in
the woods”, “Bob the Builder”, “I can build a house with a
chimney tall”
Change words to songs you already know e.g. “daddy’s
taking us to the shops tomorrow” and record them on a
tape-recorder
Add sound effects to a story
Use repeated patterns of sound to accompany building site
poems
Role play scenes in the home corner, shop, school,
hospital about a visit to the shops, going to a new school,
moving house, a hospital drama etc.
Make up imaginative stories.
Small world play with play people using school playground
models, class made play mat
Retell the three little pigs story in outside area
Use diggers and trucks in sand tray to recreate a building
site
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Physical
Development
Personal, Social
& Emotional
Development
Ring, stopping and starting games.
Outdoor provision- introduce children to basic equipment
and reinforce safety.
 Use of utensils in Snack Shack.
 Play starting and stopping on a signal games
 Acclimatisation to the hall, importance of PE rules and
safety and use of space
 Explore ways of travelling using different body parts (feet
only, hands/feet, tummies, etc.)
 Discuss posters concerning personal hygiene routinesbrush your teeth
 Take photographs and put in a book ‘about me and the
things I can do’
 Look at babies and how they need taking care of –
compare to what we can do now
 Move along to favourite songs and action rhymes
 Provide opportunities for children to explore cornflour,
sand, wet paint, dry foods, cooked foods etc
 Opportunities that give children manipulative skills e.g.
cooking, painting, playing instruments.
 Opportunities for writing in all areas of the classroom –
clipboards, dry wipe boards etc
 Activities which include gross motor skills swirling
ribbons, painting, climbing
Activities to develop fine motor – popping bubbles, threading
activites, small construction
 Introduce rules, routines and Snack Shack
 Reinforce personal hygiene and dressing skills
 Name and feelings games
 Tour of school, inside and out.
 Discuss positive class rules together
 Discuss consequences of breaking rules
 Teach children to use and care for materials and
encourage them to do this independently
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Play games to develop spatial awareness
Explore ways of supporting body weight e.g. using small
and large body parts
-travel with parts high and parts low
-travel on combinations of hands and feet
-find ways of making feet high
-travel and stop with parts high and low
Games skills – sending and receiving
-throwing, rolling, bouncing,
-send whilst still and travelling
- catching from roll, throw, bounce
-catch whilst still and travelling
-aiming for a -target
Make models of houses, shops etc using junk modelling
materials
Build construction models with range of construction kits
e.g. duplo, lego, wooden,
Make shape collages of different types of buildings
Make sandcastles with wet and dry sand
Draw a place of worship/special building using charcoal
Print brick patterns
Discuss safety aspects of using classroom equipment
Find out where resources belong in the classroom discuss
how to look after them.
Select materials from wide choice on offer in workshop
area to make building models
Choose how to decorate models without direction.
Decide on what type of building to make for class play mat
model
Choose from a range of activities on offer
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Role play rules and manners to establish class protocols
Explore stories about caring for each other through roleplay, small world and puppetry.
Play circle games and matching games to emphasise
turn-taking.
Role play area which reflects on children’s own homes.
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Use workshop materials independently.
Discuss safety aspects of using classroom equipment
Find out about ways that people celebrate Christmas
Make cards for Christmas
Circle time to discuss safety on the building site
Role play special events such as moving house, starting
school, a hospital visit etc.
Ask a builder questions about his/her job.
Compare buildings in different parts of the world – invite
children to bring in photos from holidays/visits they have
made
Think of 5 special things about your home