Reception Mid-Term planning
Miss Hutchison and Miss Reynolds
Spring One: Fairytales
Week
beginning
Text/
Theme
Week 1
R.E
Maths
Literacy
Other activities
The Three
Little Pigs
To write/draw
a list of
people who
love them
To put numbers in
correct order and fill
in missing numbers
To write all about our
Christmas holidays.
To use adjectives to
describe the wolf.
To use phonic
knowledge to match
rhyming words.
To design and build a house
To know that peoples homes are
different around the world and to talk
about similarities and differences
Collage images of houses
Week 2
The Three
Little Pigs
To be able to
talk about
how to make
people feel
better
To combine two
groups of objects, to
use language of
addition, to add two
single digit numbers.
Write an alternative
ending to our story.
To create a do not
enter sign for the
Three little pigs house
Talk about properties of materials e.g.;
heavy, light, strong, weak, waterproof.
To use beebot programmable robots to
transport the wolf to the pigs houses.
PE-What time is it Mr Wolf
Week 3
Goldilocks
and the three
bears
To make a get
well soon card
for someone
To combine two
groups of objects, to
use language of
To write instructions
on how to make
porridge.
Porridge tasting-salty porridge and
sweet porridge, to say which we prefer
and why.
we love.
addition, to add two
single digit numbers.
To write a letter to
Goldilocks from the
three bears.
Week 4
Cinderella
To know that
Jesus forgave
those who
hurt him.
To talk about names
and properties of 3d
and 2d shapes.
To write a lost poster
for Cinderella’s slipper.
To write an invitation
to Cinderella’s Ball
using ‘because’ to
extend our sentences.
To write the story of
Cinderella.
Week 5
Little Red
Riding Hood
To make a
Lenten
promise.
To solve problems
including halving and
sharing.
Little Red
Riding Hood
To talk about
Ash
Wednesday
and receive
ashes from
Fr. Dever
To solve problems
including halving and
sharing.
To write a list of food
for Little Red Riding
Hood’s basket. To
write a letter from
grandma saying what
she wants Little Red
Riding Hood to bring
for tea.
To act out our story of
the week using
different drama
techniques. To write
an alternative ending
to our story.
Week 6
To look at hard and soft materials and
describe texture.
To match the bear to the correct
chair.
To use clay to make a castle and
mix colours to paint our castles.
To make biscuits for the Cinderella
ball.
To draw Cinderella and the Princeobservational drawing.
To compare pictures of a forest
environment to where we live.
To weaving our own Red Riding Hood
basket.
To use beebot robots to navigate
through the forest.
PE to move like the big bad wolf and
act out escaping from the wolf
To make a Valentines Day card for
someone that they love.
Chinese New Year: talk about
differences and similarities.
To listen to Chinese music and watch
dragon dances.
Food tasting-To say what we like and
what we don’t like and why