St. Richard’s R.C. Primary School
Mrs. Z. Ormshaw
Nursery Medium Term – Spring 1
Once Upon a Time…
Traditional Tales and Nursery Rhymes
Wk 1 – 04.01
Wk 2 – 11.01
Wk 3 – 18.01
Wk 4 – 25.01
Wk 5 – 01.02
Wk 6 – 08.02
Wk 1/2
Goldilocks and the Three Bears
Our Family
Festivals and Celebrations at
home - Christmas
Epiphany
Wk 3
Hansel and Gretel
Wk 4
The Three Little Pigs
Wk 5/6
The Three Billy Goats Gruff
Chinese New Year – Year of the
Monkey
Shrove Tuesday
Ash Wednesday
Nursery Rhymes
PSED
Termly focus:
Behaviour in
different
settings;
assesmbly,
outdoor
area/trips etc.
Work cooperatively.
Understand
how their
actions impact
upon others.
CAL
Stories in Key
worker groups
Role play
CAL continuous.
Discuss family life; things that
you do with your family, what
did you do to celebrate
Christmas?
Sharing holiday news.
Re-cap rules
Saying Sorry
after holiday
– taking care
of equipment.
Discussion
about different
Putting
celebrations.
equipment
away
correctly and
Epiphany –
carefully.
Recap the
Christmas Story.
Being thankful
Friendships –
for gifts.
Teddy Bear’s
Picnic
Discuss what
Circle games
they do during
–
their time at
Who’s been
home.
eating my
Family – who
porridge?
do we live with?
Visit to church
Getting ready for Easter - LENT
A visit to St Richard’s Church.
Discussion about behaviour in
church. Lighting candles,
saying a prayer.
Discuss the behaviour of the
wolf.
Was the wolf kind/unkind?
Talking about Lenten Promises
and what things we could do
during Lent.
Stranger danger – being lost.
What could we do to be
kind to our friends?
Team work – can we work
together like the goats did?
Chinese New Year and how they
celebrate.
Describe the
Circle games Repeating the To compare To repeat the refrain.
character of
–
refrain.
to story to a
the witch.
What object
Children to
differing
To describe each of the
What did she
is missing?
tell the story version –
characters in the story.
look like?
from the
Big. Bad
What was she
opinion of
Pig.
Prepositions.
like?
the characters
Encourage children to use the props to retell the stories in their own words
Reread the stories with more detail; discuss author, illustrator, high frequency words they may recognise
PD
Literacy
Mathematics
Counting to 10
and recognising
numerals
Using number
in games
Sound walks.
Make the noises in the stories with musical instruments, voices etc.
Record their own sounds from the stories
Make their own version of the stories and make up different endings.
Use listening stations to listen to songs and stories – Nursery Rhymes and Traditional Tales.
Cutting activities with paper. Letters and Numbers.
Playdough activities using different tools to make party food, sweets, homes and bridges.
Children using the large equipment safely and using for role-play eg. Forest, bridge homes etc.
Small world play – House, family, kitchen, home, forest.
Large construction – building homes for three little pigs.
Sand and water play – Phonics and Number activities, oats, various materials.
Playground games - Changing direction activities using bikes /scooters/legs
Mark making Writing our names – patterns / painting
Making
Preparing
Continue to
Making
Dancing –
Making a
porridge.
food for a
discuss healthy bread.
out of the
large house
- Mixing oats
teddy bears
/ unhealthy
- kneading
ark, Three
for the pigs
- Healthy
picnic.
foods.
the dough
Little Pigs.
/ wolf.
Eating
Food sorting.
- Following
- Healthy /
Painting
the path
unhealthy
bears.
foods.
Read stories with the children
Phonics - Recognising phonics sounds
Writing – Book Reviews
Writing names
.Thank you letters for gifts.
Features of a church
Story mapping – looking at
Sorry letters from Goldilocks.
Draw a wanted poster –
the beginning, middle and
Teddy Bears picnic invite.
describing the witch
end.
Make shopping lists for the party Recipes – making bread.
CVC words – pig etc
Number Recognition: Trace
numbers and practise
recognising digits up to 9
Counting objects; bears
Use bears of different sizes and
order them.
Discuss size – big, medium,
small, large, tiny etc
Number recognition.
Counting pebbles, bread
crumbs, steps etc.
Shapes of sweets, cakes, house.
Comparing sizes
Measures for recipe.
Making Chinese lanterns
Experimenting with different
ways of travelling- over, under
etc.
Making pancakes
Menu’s
Children to entice the troll with
delicious food.
Recipe for pancakes
Positional language.
Positional language.
1sr, 2nd pig etc.
1sr, 2nd goat etc.
Counting the number of
Counting things other than
bricks, lolly sticks, straw
objects.
needed to build a house.
Discuss size
Discussing LENT and the significance of the numbers.
Chinese New Year and positional language.
UW
RE-Scheme
ICT
Understanding of different
festivals in different cultures.
Using IPads to create pictures of
a celebration.
Talk about personal experiences
of celebration.
Being thankful for what we have
got and what we receive.
Use IPads to take pictures of
our trip round school and our
visit to the Church.
What animals live in the
forest?
Tree rubbings
Treasure
Understanding what happens
when we post a letter.
Talk about why we send cards
at Christmas
Jesus’ birthday celebrations
and why we celebrate
Christmas.
Properties of materials
Habitats of bears
Understanding that Lent is a
time of preparation.
Lenten promises
Chinese New Year and how
different cultures celebrate.
Planting grass seeds and
watching them grow under
different conditions.
Types of homes
EAD
Singing games
and familiar
songs.
Nursery
Rhymes
Circle time and rhymes
Designing gingerbread house
Sensory story
Retelling the story using
Goldilocks song
instruments
Making a new chair for the bears
Tea party
Brick printing
Three Little Pigs rap
Chinese New Year Pictures
Displays
Prepare and change displays in nursery – forest, castle, bridge etc
Chinese New Year
Outdoors
Prepare for Spring
Growing grass seeds
Billy Goats Gruff Song –
Who’s that trip trapping