OULTON FIRST SCHOOL FOUNDATION STAGE – LONG TERM PLAN – CYCLE A
Areas of learning
AUTUMN 1
AUTUMN 2
SPRING 1
SPRING 2
SUMMER 1
SUMMER 2
TOPIC
Ourselves / new
friends/Journeys
Autumn – seasons
Harvest
Traditional
Tales/Winter
Festivals
Light and Dark
Christmas & nativity
Winter/Chinese New
Year
Dinosaurs
Water/Food
Water & Food
(cont...)
Spring
Changes
Easter
Space
Plants – growing
things
Summer
Castles
Growing thingscontinued.
Minibeasts
Personal, social and
emotional devt
Introduce children to
each other.
Hygiene
Table manners, laying a
table.
Model/discuss
expectations of being
at school.
Developing self-care,
personal & dental
hygiene & self respect.
Making relationships:
learning self-control &
developing self
confidence.
Friendships and first
experiences – going to
school, say no to
bullying, don’t lie Lucy.
Developing an
awareness of feelings,
friendship, cooperation, conflict and
conflict resolution
Going for goals:
motivation, taking
responsibility & building
feelings of confidence
with the belief that
what you do makes a
difference.
Good to be me:
understanding our
feelings as well as
considering our
strengths &
weaknesses as
learners. To
develop knowledge,
understanding &
skills in relation to
self-awareness,
managing feelings &
empathy.
Relationships:
explores feelings
within the context
of our family &
friends.
Changes: to equip
children with an
understanding of
different types of
change, positive &
negative, and common
human responses to
it.
Signs of Spring and
poems
Space – Non
Fiction,
instructions.
Fiction (animated
tales)
Communication and
language Literacy
Non fiction – our body –
external parts, senses.
Autumn- Percy the park
Fiction & non fiction
relating to light and
dark and space.
Traditional Tales
Poetry
Winter Festivals (Eid
and Diwali)
Dinosaurs – Non
Fiction/Fiction
(Dinosaur
stories)/Poetry/Familiar
Settings/Fantasy
Signs of Winter/Winter
stories/Chinese New
Year
Growth &
Change/Easter
Bible – Easter
story
Use: Teddy
Horsley stories
Use: Teddy Horsley
stories.
Poetry – Space
(Aliens & other
poems)
Castles – animated
tale & fairy stories.
Letters & captions,
labels.
Castles – Poetry
(dragon stories &
poems)
keeper- after the
storm.
Bible – Christmas
nativity story.
Space – lists,
recipes &
invitation writing.
Harvest – Little red
hen and Puddles lends a
hand.
Mathematics
Counting and
understanding number.
Number recognition
Ordering numbers
Colours in the
environment.
Sorting: leaves.
Colour palettes
Understanding shape
(2D)
Repeating Patterns
Adding
Measuring - Comparing
Lengths
Fiction & non fiction
relating to minibeasts
(UW Link).
Fiction & non
fiction relating to
growing things
(UW Link)
Counting and
understanding number.
Number recognition
Ordering numbers
Measuring – Comparing
Heights
Shape – 3D
(printing/making
models)
Calculating – addition
and subtraction
Real life money (Use in
role play)
Time – Days of the
Week. Minutes.
Counting and
understanding number.
Number recognition
Ordering numbers
Estimating &Counting
Objects
2D Shape – sorting
Addition – 1 more/2
more
Repeating
&Symmetrical patterns
Pairs to 10
Counting and
understanding
number.
Number
recognition
Ordering numbers
Comparing weights
– using nonstandard units
3D shapes &
sorting them
Counting back from
20, compare.
Coins to 10p,
solving practical
problems
Time – months of
the year
Counting and
understanding
number.
Number
recognition
Ordering numbers
Counting in 1s &
10s to 100
Counting in 2s
2D shape and
sorting
Doubles to double
5
Repeating
patterns
Find 1 more/1 less
Subtracting 2
counting back
Floating and
sinking.
Counting and
understanding
number.
Number recognition
Ordering numbers
3D shapes – describe
& sort
Follow
directions/Positional
language
Ordinal Numbers
Capacity
Recognise all coins,
solve simple problems
Time – minutes & days
of the week.
How we get to school
– tally charts / simple
graphs – pictogram.
Sunflower display –
tallest, taller, tall.
Daisy: smallest,
smaller, small.
Understanding of the
World
Changes in Autumn –
similarities/differences
of leaves.
Ourselves: senses.
Observing how we are
similar/different.
You & your family (visit
baby), changes: baby,
toddler, adult.
Growing older. Family
tree/sense of the past.
Harvest: where things
are grown, Divali & Eid.
Nocturnal animals.
Light and dark:
Night and day. Sources
of light – candles
/electricity/sun/stars/
Moon/lightning etc.
Dark – shadows.
Signs of Winter.
Chinese New Year
Cooking: Dinosaur
Biscuits. Pancakes.
Water – bubbles, water
pushers, ice.
Hibernating Animals
Signs of Spring
.
Food
Pyramid/healthy
foods
Fruit
Cooking: exotic
fruit salad, salad
bar tasting.
Nativity story.
Easter story.
Growing plants –
from seed (mini
greenhouses)
Planting
vegetables from
seed and planting
on in veg plot.
Identifying plant
parts
Life-cycle of
butterfly and
frog.
Signs of Summer.
Soup: growing
vegetables.
Trying vegetables
grown.
Pond life
Minibeasts
Castles – shields,
knights, princesses,
dragons.
Tadpoles in class
Caterpillars and
butterfly house.
Lifecycle of
plants.
Chick incubator in
class?
Physical Development
Expressive arts and
Leap into Life F2
Science through Dance:
Senses- sight, sound,
touch
Paintings – self portrait
Leap into Life F2
Science through
Dance: light and
shadows.
Christmas cards &
Gymnastics: basic skills: shapes, travel, jumps.
Small apparatus.
Games skills: leap into life and primary
games scheme.
Winter snowman
Observational
Healthy food plate
Making minibeasts –
design
envelopes.
Leaf printing/hand
prints on leaf shapes
Collage animals that
hibernate
Cooking:
Make bread rolls to
take home.
Salt dough - Harvest
Loaf
Penguin paper plates
Salt dough Diva lamps
& decoration.
pictures.
Dinosaur fossils, paper
plate dinosaurs,
dinosaur masks. Volcanic
island.
Cardboard gingerbread
men.
Life size dinosaur (Mrs
Dally)
Salt dough Christmas
decorations
Chinese New Year
lanterns
Snowflakes/paper
chains
Spring art and
crafts
Lentils flowers
Sponge chicks
Egg box chicks?
Weaving sheep
Mothers day card
and gift
drawing – using
pastels (bluebells)
snails, caterpillars,
ladybirds,
Making sunflowers
– texture using
nuts and daisies.
Water colour
paintings: minibeasts.
Butterfly printing
Observational
painting sunflower
– van gough.
Easter card
Make flowers in
flower pots –
daffodils.
1.1c: ‘Find out
about ways in which
sacred texts are
regarded, read and
handled by
believers’
1.5a: ‘Ask and
respond
imaginatively to
questions about
things that are
interesting or
puzzling in the
world’
Bird feeders
Minibeasts on colour
magic – ICT
Cooking:
EID sweets
Gingerbread Men
Star biscuits.
Religious Education
1.4b: ‘Identify and ask
questions about
customs associated
with particular religious
communities’
(Harvest Celebrations)
1.1b: ‘Explore stories
about the lives and
teachings of key
religious figures’
(Nativity Story &
How the Church
celebrates Christmas)
1.3b: ‘Identify symbolic
actions, gestures and
rituals and talk about
how they are used as
part of worship and
ceremonies’
(Relationships,
promises and Wedding
Celebrations)
(Easter Story,
Remembering
Jesus the
teacher,
happy/sad times)
(Muslim story –
The Tiny Ants,
we are all equally
important no
matter what our
1.4a: ‘Hear and
respond to stories
about belonging and
relating to religious
communities’
(How people might
help in Church,
Christian teaching to
help others)
DISPLAYS
Ourselves – portraits
(Good to be me)
Autumn (animals also)
shape/size)
We love to grow
Light and Dark
Winter/Christmas
Gingerbread
Man/Harvest
Castles display
Dinosaurs
Spring
Pastel spring
pictures
Healthy eating/Pizza
Express trip
Van gogh
sunflowers?
Minibeasts?
Our body
ROLE PLAY
Home corner
Hair dressers
Opticians
Café/Restaurant
Space/ Spaceship
Castle
Baby Clinic
Winter wonderland
Dinosaur
Museum/Swamp
Shoe shop
Flower
shop/Garden
centre
Garage
Outdoors: Percy’s Hut
& Coffee Shop
Visits
Visit to Oulton Abbey
Church – Harvest
Festival
Visit to Birches Valley
to see Santa – 10th
Dec.
Bear Hunt – Manor
Hill – cluster day.
Transition visit to
Stafford Castle
Visit to Pizza
Express
N – Teddy bears
picnic