Collections for Infants
Collection title
Definition
Animals
Art
Birds
Buddhism - Religious artefacts
Castle and mediaeval times
Celebrations and festivals
Chinese - Religious artefacts
Christianity - Religious artefacts
Christmas
Clothes and costumes
Colours, patterns and shapes
Countries
Dinosaurs
Environment
specific animals from around the world, reptiles, amphibians, mammals
art techniques like collage, drawing, craft such as puppet making
specifics birds from around the world, how they grow
10 books and various religious materials
knights, castles as buildings, life in a castle, middle ages
weddings, birthdays, religious festivals, country festivals, cooking
10 books and various religious materials
10 books and various religious materials
stories, poems, things to make, the Christmas story, history
fashions, costumes and textiles
colours, patterns, sorting, difference, shapes
specific countries, atlases, maps, deserts, coasts, explorers
identifying dinosaurs, stories
climate change, recycling and refuse, endangered life, acid rain, pollution, ecosystem,
natural resources
stories from around the world, nursery rhyme collections
gardening, what a farmer does, how to grow food, cooking, farm animals, history
pressure, magnetism, gravity, balance, friction, pushing and pulling, stopping and falling,
fast and slow, movement
feelings, family members, growing up, personal safety, bullying, social skills
wetlands, hedgerows, gardens, ponds, under the sea, seashore, mountains, deserts,
rivers, woods
exercise, food, personal safety
10 books and various religious materials
Fairytales and nursery rhymes
Food and farming
Forces
Friends and families
Habitats
Healthy living
Hinduism - Religious artefacts
Homes and houses
Human Body
Islamic - Religious artefacts
Judaism - Religious artefacts
Lifecycles
Light
Machines and technology
Materials
Minibeasts
Number, counting, size and time
People who help us
Pets
Pirates
Planet earth
Plants
Poems and wordplay
Power and energy
Religions and culture
Schools
Seaside
Seasons
Shopping and money
Sikhism - Religious artefacts
Sound
Space
Toys and games
Travel and transport
Water
settlements, buildings, history of building, architectures, houses around the world, city and
country, tunnels and bridges, construction
senses, skeleton, digestion, sleeping, muscles, circulation, how babies are made
10 books and various religious materials
10 books and various religious materials
Tadpole to frog, how we grow, from seed to plant
light and colour, day and night, experiments, reflections and shadows
how things work, levers, cogs, inventions
glass, textiles, clay, wood, plastic, reusing
spiders, molluscs, earthworms, butterflies, bees, ladybirds
measuring, fractions, telling the time, counting books
RSPCA, nurses, doctors, ambulance drivers, jobs
Pet care, Vets, RSPCA
pirate stories, ships, craft
under the ground, soil, volcanoes, earthquakes, how the earth was made, how mountains
are created
how they grow, where to find them
poetry, jokes
gas, coal, electricity and magnetism, energy, resources
holy places, buildings of worship, stories, religious practices
teachers, eco-schools, history of schools
coral reefs, animals from the sea and seashore, seaside buildings
spring, summer, autumn, winter, festivals, nature
shops, history of money
10 books and various religious materials
noise, hearing, music
space travel, planets, stars, space vehicles, astronauts
history of toys, how to make toys
vehicles, holidays, maps, history of travel, environmental issues
water cycle, pollution and experiments
Weather
rain, hurricanes, snow, sunshine, lightning, storms, wind and drought