Alwoodley Primary
School Nursery
Cycle One Topics
Marvellous Me
(diet/ food/ health)
Autumn 1
Cycle One Topics
Focus
Stories
Author Study
Julia Donaldson
Eric Carle
Autumn 2
Marvellous Me
(diet/ food/ health)
Titch
Three Little Pigs
Goldilocks and the Three Bears/The Magic
Porridge Pot
Red Riding Hood
Chicken Liken/ The Enormous Turnip(Autumn link)
Going on A Bear Hunt
The Runaway Chapatti (Diwali link)
Julia Donaldson
The Tallest Giant in Town(Height/ self-care)
Eric Carle
Brown Bear Brown Bear
Mixed up Chameleon
*Continuous Nursery Rhymes and counting songs
with magic bags
Role Play areas
Home Corner
Baby Clinic
Petrol StationOutdoors
Three Pigs
Construction Site
Santa’s
Workshop(weight)
Cave (Day and nightLight and Dark)
Out of this World
(Night and Day/ Light and dark/ space/
transport/ stories from different countries/
materials
Spring 1
Spring 2
Out of this World
(Night and Day/ Light and dark/ space/
transport/ stories from different countries/
materials
Aliens Love Underpants
Peace at Last
Whatever Next
Noah’s Ark / Mr Archimedes (Water)
Africa Link
Dear Zoo (Domestic/wild animal link)
Handa’s Surprise
We’re Going on a Lion Hunt
Giraffes Can’t Dance
Julia Donaldson
Zog
Room on a Broom (transport link)
Night Monkey/ Day Monkey
Monkey puzzle
Eric Carle
Pancakes
Papa Please Get the Moon for me
Chinese New Year
Chopsticks
Shrove Tuesday
Mr Wolf’s Pancakes
*Continuous Nursery Rhymes and counting songs
with magic bags
Space station
Aeroplane/ Travel Agents
Outdoors
Garage/petrol station
On Safari
Long, Long Ago
(Children’s own history/ seasons/ castlesfairy tales)
Summer 1
Summer 2
Long, Long Ago
(Children’s own history/ seasons/ castlesfairy tales)
Snow White and Seven Dwarfs
Jack and the Beanstalk
Sleeping Beauty
Cinderella
Rapunzel
Rosie’s Walk(Preposition link)
Julia Donaldson
The princess and the Wizard
Eric Carle
The Little Seed (link growing beans)
The Hungry Caterpillar (link butterfly
lifecycle)
*Continuous Nursery Rhymes and counting
songs with magic bags
Castle from long ago /Ten Town castle
Story land- Fairy tales with puppets/props
Giant’s castle
Outdoors
Camping /Seaside shop
Garage/petrol station
Garden Centre outdoors
Alwoodley Primary
School Nursery
Cycle One Topics
Marvellous Me
(diet/ food/ health)
Out of this World
(Night and Day/ Light and dark/ space/
transport/ stories from different countries/
materials
Long, Long Ago
(Children’s own history/ seasons/ castlesfairy tales)
Mini World
Dolls house- Wooden and Duplo
Min beast area outdoors with Natural materials
North Pole/Snow animals
Noah’s Ark
Jungle animals
Castle and knights
Pirate ship
Enhanced
Provision
(Sand, Water,
Paint, Messy play)
Capacity- pouring water into different sized
bottles, using funnels and jugs
Sand- Dinosaurs, buckets, spades
Winter- glitter and stars in water/sand
Writing in trays of sand/ rice/ glitter
Corn flour and water/ snowflakes (snow/Winter
link)
Float and Sink investigations
Making boats- link with materials
Noah’s Ark / Mr Archimedes (Water)
Writing in trays of sand/ rice/ glitter
Making magic potions in water
(glitter/goblets/fruit/ star mixing wands)
Making a witches potion in sand (minibeasts, frogs etc)
Fine motor skills
Plastic tweezers and unifix cubes
Threading beads
Coloured pegs with card.
Pegs and board
Threading numbers and beads on pipe cleaners
Making patterns in paper with hole punches
Clay hedgehogs with sticks
Sorting coloured pom poms
Posting pompoms down tubes
Making numbers and phonemes with pipe cleaners
and buttons
Sorting hearts from rice with tweezers
Loom bands and pin trays
Make a snow man with white circles and buttons.
Phoneme beads with alphabet pictures for
threading on pipe cleaners
Placing beads in Numicon plates with tweezers
Dough and peg gym
Light saver/wand gym
Writing in trays of sand/ rice/ glitter
Decorate the egg with buttons
Screwing tops on bottles
Animal height cutting activity
Sort the butterflies from the ladybirds
Padlocks and keys
Sewing cards
Nuts and bolts
Pegs on numbered cups
Ribbons, paper and plastic strips, pipe
cleaners with threading numbers- hooks on
fence to hang numbers.
Dough and peg gym
Light saver/wand gym
Writing in trays of sand/ rice/ glitter
Wrapping twigs with wool
Sorting six different seeds in to a tray
Beanstalk cutting activity
Dough throughout the year
Goldilocks cutting activity
Writing in trays of sand/ rice/ glitter
Computing
Ipads, computer and white board
Education City
Bonfire / fire work pictures
Our faces for calendar (To paint a picture)
Paint programme- Xmas pictures
Ipads, computer and white board
Education City
Bee bots – following a Route along a road
Using cameras- Favourite part of Nursery/
Signs of Spring- photos
Spring flower pictures- white board
Remote control cars/ pulleys etc
Sound buttons/books
Ipads, computer and white board
Education City
Bee Bots- Shop/street mat
Remote control cars/ pulleys etc
Sound buttons/books
Cooking
Hedgehog bread
Christmas cakes
Winter soup (Jan/Feb when snowy/icy outdoors)
Rice Krispy Buns- melting and cooling chocolate
Fresh fruit salad
Fruit Smoothies
Alwoodley Primary
School Nursery
Cycle One Topics
Creative
Physical
Education
Marvellous Me
(diet/ food/ health)
Out of this World
(Night and Day/ Light and dark/ space/
transport/ stories from different countries/
materials
Long, Long Ago
(Children’s own history/ seasons/ castlesfairy tales)
Face biscuits
Cheese snakes/ straws (Length/maths)
Noodles
Shape/ transport biscuits
Toast- colour /texture change
Cheese on toast/ melting
Buns
Designing alien biscuits
Fruit flans
Sandwiches for Summer picnic
Jam tarts (Queen of Hearts)
Prep for banquet
Painting our faces for display
Making puppets of story characters.
Painting and drawing favourite story characters.
Clay hedgehogs with sticks
Hedgehog hand prints
Andy Goldsworthy- designs with natural
materials
Leaf printing
Mixed up me- (link Mixed Up Chameleon)
Make music to recreate the sound of fireworks,
bear hunt and Christmas songs
Fire work pictures- chalk
Christmas
Repeating patterns- printing and party hats
Making cards and calendars
Making reindeer with handprint
Painting Santa/ trees etc
Salt dough decorations
Diwali/Eid
Diva Lights and mendhi patterns/ Rangoli
patterns
Becoming familiar with hall
Sticky Kids Warm Up
Going on A Bear Hunt (Prepositions)
Autumn leaves movement
Movements to imitate fireworks, Autumn trees
and scenes in the bear hunt, for example
jumping and leaping
See Outdoors
Colour mixing- Winter colours -blue and white
Colour Mixing- green with blue and yellow (Spring)
Junk box transport
Observational drawings/ paintings of Spring
flowers
Designing alien pants (link story)
Colour mixing planet Earth- blue and yellow for
blue and green
Oil pastel planets
Designing aliens and planets- paint, clay, ICT,
drawing, construction
Painting animals- pattern in animal skin/fur
Camouflage animals’ with colour mixing habitat
background- African jungle
Summer/plants/fruit art (U the W)
Pointillism- seaside with cotton buds
Van Gough Sunflowers
Colour mixing – Warm Colours- red, yellow
Fruit printing/ drawing/ painting
Tissue flowers
Animal link- (U the W)
Making mini beasts- clay/ pipe cleaners/ egg
boxes etc
Butterfly paintings
Making castles in DT area
Designing flags
Painting favourite story princesses and
princes
Building and designing castles
Sticky Kids
Parachute/lycra with ball and monkeys
Ribbons
Ball skills
Movement skills- rolling etc outdoors
Obstacle Course outdoors
Rosie’s Walk- preposition work
Traffic light game
Rabbit holes
Dragon Dancing
Parachute/lycra with ball and monkeys
Ribbons
Ball skills
Movement skills- rolling etc outdoors
Sports Day Skills
Bean game
Alwoodley Primary
School Nursery
Cycle One Topics
Thinking Skills
Marvellous Me
(diet/ food/ health)
Out of this World
(Night and Day/ Light and dark/ space/
transport/ stories from different countries/
materials
What would you make the bears for breakfast?
P4C- Would you rather…
Have breakfast with Goldilocks or baby bear?
Meet Red Riding Hood or The Wolf?
Go out in wellies or flip flops?
Go out in a woolly or sun hat?
Meet a friendly monster or scary cat?
Circle Map- Doctors
Story and sequencing maps (Going on a Bear
hunt)
Maps to compare Planet Earth and Space
What would you pack to go to the moon and why?
P4C- Would you rather…
Live in the North Pole or in the hot jungle?
Go on holiday to the moon or stay on Planet
Earth?
Have a lion or an alien spend the day at Nursery?
Have a dog or a rabbit as a pet?
Have an adventure in a rocket or a submarine?
Be as tall as giraffe or small as spider?
Travel in an aeroplane or a boat?
Circle Map- North Pole, moon, Planet Earth
Story and sequencing maps –
Handa’s Surprise
Rosie’s Walk
Outdoors
Garage
Autumn activities/ walks
Digging area with compost
Weaving Numbers
Natural Materials collage- Andy Goldsworthy
Digging area with compost
Ball skills
Music area
Going on a bear hunt- role play and maths link
Winter walk- signs of Winter
Developing growing area- Spring bulbs, planting
vegetables and flowers
Garage and petrol station
Skipping skills
Obstacle Courses/balancing and climbing skillsRosie’s Walk
Ball skills
Water and Guttering
Cogs
Large wooden construction
Remote control cars/ pulleys etc
Music area
Dens and caves outdoors
Shape/Number/Phoneme / colour Hunts
Spring walks/ woods
Long, Long Ago
(Children’s own history/ seasons/ castlesfairy tales)
Are giants real?
What door will the magic key open?
What will happen if you drink the magic
potion? (Link with water tray)
P4C- Would you rather…
Have breakfast with a knight or a prince?
Meet Rapunzel or the witch?
Have a witch or giant as a friend?
Have a day in a pirate ship or castle?
Go on a horse to a castle or rocket to space
Story and sequencing maps
Fairy tales
Bean and Sunflower growth maps
Growing beans and Sunflowers
Jacks Garden Centre
Mini beasts in compost area
Water play
Further developing garden area
Sports Day practising
Ball skills
Water and Guttering
Cogs
Large wooden construction
Remote control cars/ pulleys etc
Music area
Skipping skills
Growing cress/ Grass heads
Story /castle area (top house)
Shape/Number/Phoneme / colour Hunts
Teddy bear hunt/ picnic
Summer walks/ woods
Castle banquet/ Princess songs
Mulberry bush action song
Pirate ship- treasure hunt/ making treasure
maps
Alwoodley Primary
School Nursery
Cycle One Topics
Marvellous Me
(diet/ food/ health)
Visits/
Visitors
Autumn picnic in the woods
Celebrations
Eid
Diwali
Bonfire Night
Christmas
Ten Town throughout the years- numbers to 20.
Counting skills and number recognition.
Five Little Ducks, Five Speckled Frogs,
Making Snow men- count out 2 eyes, 4 buttons
etc.
Stocking Game for 2 with dice to add pompoms.
Repeating patterns- bricks, xmas printing, party
hats.
Sing number songsWith play dough, make numbers with cutters,
use mats to make and count buttons for
snowmen, stars for trees
Repeating patterns- bricks, xmas printing, party
hats.
Make number books linked with number of the
week.
Collage and painted numbers.
Make fireworks with 2D shapes.
Create repeating colour and shape patterns with
beads, pegs and printing activities.
Explore 3D shapes through construction and
Wrapped Christmas presents under tree in home
corner- describe shape, weight etc.
Sort objects by colour and shape.
Begin to understand and identify opposites,
big/small, heavy/light, long/short wrapped
parcels.
Maths
Out of this World
(Night and Day/ Light and dark/ space/
transport/ stories from different countries/
materials
Walk to Tesco- compare local area to Africa
Winter and Spring walks in school grounds
Long, Long Ago
(Children’s own history/ seasons/ castlesfairy tales)
Summer walks / woods or school grounds
Teddy picnic in school grounds
Walk to the Library
Chinese New Year
Easter
Eid
Patterns in animal skin/fur
Ten Town throughout the years- numbers to
20.
Counting skills and number recognition
Make number books linked with number of
the week.
Collage and painted numbers.
Measures- non-standard with cubes
Comparative Language (Fast/slow/ more/less)
Ten Town throughout the years- numbers to 20.
Counting skills and number recognition.
Counting transport
Make number books linked with number of the
week.
Collage and painted numbers.
Little Big Maths
Five Currant Buns
Ten Green Bottles
Shapes (2D)
Measures / snakes/Rapunzel’s hair/ Jacks beans
(Long/short /heavy/light/ tall)
comparative language(more/less)
Measures / snakes (Long/short /heavy/light)
Use of positional language in construction area,
dolls house, outdoors, in Rosie’s Walk story.
Shapes (2D)
Spring flowers- count out 6 petals, 4 leavesbonds to 10
Mini beast/ Summer link
Sorting mini beasts- hunt with tally chart
Time2D/3D Shape- Butterfly pattern doubles
Doubles for ladybird spots
Decorate a butterfly- role a dice to add
shapes, how many altogether?
Alwoodley Primary
School Nursery
Cycle One Topics
Literacy- Reading,
Writing and Phonics
Marvellous Me
(diet/ food/ health)
Out of this World
(Night and Day/ Light and dark/ space/
transport/ stories from different countries/
materials
Long, Long Ago
(Children’s own history/ seasons/ castlesfairy tales)
Jolly Phonics and name writing throughout the
year
Lang and Comm through stories and rhymes
Writing names and kisses in Christmas cards
Writing letters and lists for Santa
Writing linked with role play areas
Use rhythm and rhyme skills when singing songs.
Describe settings, characters, and main events
in storiesMake phonemes with play dough cutters.
Make collage letters and phoneme circles.
Use sound bags/ I Spy/Cross the River
Going on phoneme hunts Bear Hunt – story maps
and preposition work/ making alternative routes
Writing Thank you letters for presents
Jolly Phonics and name writing throughout the year
Writing names
Lang and Comm through stories and rhymes
Rosie’s Walk for preposition and story maps
Writing linked with role play areas
Story maps/ sequencing/ retelling/ role play
stories of week
CVC words alongside learning phonemes
Labelling pictures
Use rhythm and rhyme skills when singing songs.
Describe settings, characters, and main events in
storiesMake phonemes with play dough cutters.
Make collage letters and phoneme circles.
Use sound bags/ I Spy/Cross the River
Going on phoneme hunts
My own History- How I have changedbaby/now
Jolly Phonics and name writing throughout the
year
Writing linked with role play areas
Story maps/ sequencing/ retelling/ role play
stories of week
CVC words
Labelling pictures
Use rhythm and rhyme skills when singing
songs.
Describe settings, characters, and main
events in stories
Make phonemes /CVC words with play dough
cutters.
Make collage letters and phoneme circles.
Use sound bags/ I Spy/Cross the River
Going on phoneme hunts