Early Years Foundation Stage Long Term Plan Year A
Autumn
Spring
Summer
All About Me
Role-play-home clinic school
Self portraits, Picasso etc -self portraits
Food, ourselves, the body health and growth,
sound & hearing.
How do we find out about the past?
Individual photos
Family photos
Grandparents afternoon
All Around the World
Where we live
Role-play-Chinese home
Maps and atlases
Name and locate continents and oceans
Human and physical hot and cold areas
passport to travel the world, contrasting
locality overseas,
Role-play-home art gallery school
Foods of the world-name, dissect, detailed
drawings
Art from around the world links with ?Schoolnew Zealand, Australia
Local Art/Artist
Around our school-maps of local area, how we
make our local area safer
local history, Richard Arkwright
forces pushes and pulls
name and locate 4 countries of uk and their
capitals
Visits around local area/visit by local artist
Eg :parent artist/Belper Mill/River Gardens
Child interest
Child interest
Child interest
HALF TERM
HALF TERM
HALF TERM
Fantastic Fairytales
Teddy Bears Picnic
How does your garden grow?
Role-play-castle, fairy tale setting
Toyshop-role-play
Fairy stories traditional and new
making castles pictures in books
Visit to ? Castle
Dressing up in costumes
Learn about castles, kings and queens
Christmas R.E/Art Nativity
(toys from other cultures, structures and
mechanisms)
Grandparents/Gill Tanner books
Visit to museum/bring in own toys / Toys in
the past, toy collections/ /Barnaby Bear
Easter R.E/Art/Sc. Eggs-growth
Role-play-garden centre , fruit and veg
shop
Seasonal and daily weather
Compass directions and
winds
(Variation , growing plants, plants and animals in
local environment, healthy eating)
Plants/Seeds/visit to allotments/garden
centre
Child Interest
Early Years Foundation Stage Long Term Plan Year B
Autumn
Our House Peepo
Role-play-home, Victorian home, cave
Buildings & structures, shelters
Materials, Electricity-simple circuits, light and
dark
Timeline of homes of long ago visit to
stately home or museum
Basic geographical vocabulary human and
physical Homes in locality-walkabout and
sketch
Pictures of children’s homes using
different mediums
Hindu religion and Diwali
HALF TERM
Alien Attack!
Creative aliens, space, planets, moon, stars, sun,
imaginary maps, space travel, light, dark
shadows)
Visit to space/science museum, DVD clips,
model rockets, space costumes, telescope .
Christmas R.E/Art
Spring
Pirates and Mermaids
Pirate stories
Role-play-boat, island
Making a boat
Floating and sinking, water , forces-up
thrust-push and pull
History of pirates-Blue beard etc
Maps of old-compare to new
Visit to sea life centre / Pirate
resources(Ed Library)
Summer
ungry Caterpillar
stories of hungry caterpillar and other
animal stories
Role-play-Darwin’s Laboratory
Lifecycles, minibeasts, healthy eating,
growing fruit and vegetables, classifying
animals, new life
Sc equipment - magnifying pots/Butterfly eggs to
hatch
Make an insect using a wire frame and
tissue paper
Visit to butterfly farm
Chinese New Year
HALF TERM
Science of egg and growth
HALF TERM
Up, up and Away
Down on the farm
(History of flight- kites, balloons, aeroplanes.
Weather – wind and clouds/the atmosphere.
Forces. DVD “Up” )
First airline, significant individuals eg
Wright brothers
Hot air Balloon kit & Kites/model
aeroplanes/Windy day box
Easter R.E/Art/Sc
Christopher Columbus, contrasting country,
location of continents and oceans
(Variation, plants & animals in local environment,
puppets, nature, foodstuffs)
Farm visit/ Visitor from farm
Visit local farm
Early Years Foundation Stage Long Term Plan Year C
Autumn
Spring
Summer
People Who help Us
Fire and Ice
Travel
(Jobs around school, safety, police, ambulance,
fire services, health professionals – nurse
doctor, dentist optician.)
Florence Nightingale Mary Secole
Visits from Police/ School nurse/
Optician/road crossing patrol
(Changes of state, freezing melting, ice
sculpture, volcanoes, hot and cold places,
insulation, hot and cold colours, Great Fire of
London)
Countries and capitals of uk
Visit to ice rink/ snow centre/Visit from
Fire Service
(Vehicles – Cars, bikes, buses, trains. Changes
over time. Mechanisms, Maps,)
Visit to Crich Tramway Museum/Remote
controlled cars/ Car Engine
Child interest
Child interest
Child interest
HALF TERM
HALF TERM
HALF TERM
Dinosaurs and All that
Rubbish
Carnival
Oh I do like to be beside
the seaside!
Living memory, Gill Tanner
continents and oceans
(Stories Dinosaurs, classifying, reptiles, recycling , eco-school growing)
Face paints/large boxes to make dinosaur/
visit to see dinosaurs in a museum
Learn about Jamaica and contrast it with
uk Anansi stories
(Festivals, music, colour, sounds, textiles,
weaving ,masks, different cultures)
Instruments from other cultures, masks,
artefacts from other cultures
Geographical vocabulary and field work
(Going to the seaside, seaside holidays in the
past, the beach and water, boats )
Visit to the seaside/Seaside day – paddling
pool/sand/ice-cream
Christmas R.E/Art
Colour code-
Easter R.E/Sc/Art
Child Interest
:Geography:History:Science: Role-play: Art: D&T:Literacy(stories)