Curriculum Overview For Autumn Term

In Communication and Language we will be exploring - Listening and attention, speaking and understanding

In Physical Development including Outdoor Learning we will be exploring - Gross motor skills including core strength and posture, fundamental movements and spatial awareness. Fine motor skills including hand strength using playdough, threading, using tools i.e pegs, tweezers and learning how to use scissors correctly.

In Personal, Social and Emotional Development we will be exploring - Self- regulation and how to understand our feelings and emotions. Managing self including establishing classroom rules, transitions and becoming independent. Building relationships by fostering positive relationships with others through collaborative play and circle time.

In Literacy our text’s for this half term will be - The Friendship Bench and Amazing!

In Math’s we will be exploring - Matching, sorting and comparing. Learn about measure and simple patterns

In Understanding the world we will be exploring - All about me and the body including exploring the senses. Occupations, what I want to be when I grow up, people who help us including school staff visits and visits from parents and grandparents. Key festivals and celebrations like harvest festival, Autumn, birthdays, black history month and recycle week

In Expressive arts and design we will be exploring - drawing and mark marking, exploring colour and colour mixing, moulding using pinching, squeezing and pulling. Making constructions using loose parts, junk modelling and working together to create projects. Children will also role play imitating real and past experiences.

In RE - Vine and Branches - Creation and Covenant. We will be exploring who God is how he creates and calls upon people. We will delve into our wonderful world and what we can do to keep our world beautiful.

Our PE day is and we will be doing fundamental skills including running, jumping, hopping, skipping and crawling during this term