Nursery Overview
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Term 1 |
Term 2 |
Term 3 |
Term 4 |
Term 5 |
Term 6 |
Theme |
Settling in Marvellous Me |
Out of this World Celebrations |
Traditional Tales Imagery Worlds |
Mini-beasts Growing |
Amazing Animals Sea, Farm & Zoo |
The Seaside Transition |
Prime areas
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Box of feelings. Group games Oral health Cosmic yoga Class rules |
Christmas crafts Making Diva lamps Exploring planets Trying different foods Movement to music |
Action songs & rhymes Making up our own stories Tuff tray experiences |
Planting sunflowers, strawberries and tomatoes How I’ve grown since being a baby Ordering of size |
How do we look after pets? Matching patterns Animal sounds |
Safety in the sun. Rainbow Fish Talking about our new schools School uniform |
Specific Areas |
Phonics listening walk Which instruments make what sounds? My routine People who help me |
Phonics - our favourite action songs Follow the sounds in nursery Exploring different materials Google Earth - where we live |
Phonics - our favourite rhymes and rhyming games. Silly soup Re-telling or favourite Traditional Tale Repetitive phrases |
Phonics - digging for treasure. Mirror play Our sound boxes Lifecycle sequencing |
Phonics - making trumpets Sound story time Animal habitats |
Phonics - clapping sounds. Say the sounds I spy sounds Beach collage |
Core Books
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Elmer. Titus’s troublesome tooth Alan’s Big Scary Teeth The Colour Monster My first day at nursery My Turn The Gruffalo Where’s my Teddy? Children around the world Eleanor Won’t Share |
Alien’s love underpants. Harvest Festival. Make a Christmas Wish The Gruffalo’s Child Room on a Broom Lanterns & Firecrackers |
The Smartest Giant in Town We’re Going on a Bear Hunt The Three Little Pigs Goldilocks and the Three Bears Dinosaurs Love Underpants Meg and the Pirate |
The Giant Turnip Jack and the Beanstalk What the Ladybird Heard How do flowers grow? Handa’s Surprise Tadpole to frog Acorn to oak tree The Very Hungry Caterpillar Supertato The Crunching Munching Caterpillar |
Dear Zoo Monkey Puzzle On the Farm Rosie’s walk Sharing a Shell Rusty’s Bone Milk! Snail and the whale |
A First Book of the Sea Freddie goes to the sea side Rock Pools The Rainbow Fish Fidgety Fish Oomph! First day at school Topsy and Tim Start School |
Magical moments |
Autumn Harvest celebrations First day at nursery |
Autumn/Winter Halloween Bonfire Night Diwali Hanukkah Christmas |
Winter Chinese New Year National Storytelling Week Valentine’s Day |
Spring Shove Tuesday World Book Day Mother’s Day Easter St. Georges Day |
Spring
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Summer Queen’s Birthday Father’s Day |
Real Life Experiences |
Leaf printing Autumn Walk Visit from a Dentist |
Autumn walk Decorating a Christmastree Christmas Nativity play and parties Making fire (Forest School activity) |
Winter Walk. Explore the local area. Traditional Tales read by familiar people. Tasting Chinese food Dinosaur walk on the Whinless Down |
Growing cress. Planting sunflowers and measure them as they grow. Growing beans in jars. Visit the garden centre to buy seeds. Wormery |
Vet visit. Teddy Bears picnic. Buying fruit and veg from a local shop Visit from the Bug man |
Trip to the beach. Ice cream shop Go to the local shop to buy sun cream Lifeguard visit to talk about sea safety |
Parental Involvement Opportunities |
My family adventures All about me Wow moments from home |
Christmas Craft afternoon Christmas Nativity Stay and play. |
Learning Journey Drop In Photos of family days out in Dover. |
Mother’s Day – invite female family members/ carers Parent consultations Stay and play. |
Stay and play. |
Father’s Day – invite male family members/ carers Sports Day Leavers Assembly |
Cooking |
Preparing snack Hedgehog bread Expression biscuits Salad preparation |
Preparing snack Traditional treats e.g. toffee apples Fruit dinosaurs Christmas biscuits |
Making mashed potato Cup cakes Porridge. Chinese food tasting. |
Pancakes Potato salad using potatoes we have grown Easter nests Baking bread |
Preparing snack Fruit salad Banana loaf |
Picnic Food: Sandwiches, sausage rolls, fruit kebabs Making ice cream. Fruit smoothies. |
Topics are a broad plan for some of the learning that takes place each term.
Our planning is flexible and fluid in order to follow the children’s interests and meet individual children’s needs.