St Lucias Nursery medium term planning

Growth

Personal, Social and Emotional

development

Personal growth- this is me

Demonstrating sense of self as
individuals.
Independence.
Respect for each other and our
environment.
Working together

Building relationships

Expressive Arts and Design

Exploring and using media and materials

Experiment with blocks, colours and

marks ( create large scale the hungry

caterpillar)
Describe textures (seeds, leaves,
animal skin/fur)
Observational painting
Junk model
Use various construction materials
Using tools for a purpose ( spades,
trowels, scissors etc)

Being imaginative

Reading

Writing

Make believe by pretending

Imaginative role-play
Using available resources to support
role-play
Moving in response to music
(animal, insect movements)

Literacy
Daily phonics sessions
Joining in with stories, songs and
rhymes
Story structures
Knows print carries meaning
Distinguish between marks they make
Ascribe meaning to marks that they
see in different places.
Labels ( plants, body parts)
Letter formation (names)

Physical Development

Ourselves, animals, plants and Attingham Park

Spring term 2016

Moving in a variety of ways representing animals,

insects, growing.
Moving in response to music

Communication and Language

Gaining control when using one handed tools and

mark making tools.

Fine motor skills

Listening and attention

Health and self-care

Listening with interest

Listens to stories with increasing attention and recall.
Joins in with repeated refrains and anticipates key events and phrases in rhymes and stories.

Observe the effects activities have on our bodies.

Discus the importance of keeping healthy, e.g. food
and exercise.
Healthy teeth and bones

Understanding

Developing understanding of simple concepts (big/little)

Discuss different life cycles e.g. how do caterpillars change to butterflies?
Discuss how we are all different e.g. hair colour, height, eye colour, shoe size etc.

Speaking
Uses language to express own thoughts, ideas and experiences, taking turns in conversation taking into
account what others say.
Question why things happen and give own explanations. E.g. how do we grow, what plants need to grow etc.
Uses language to imagine and recreate roles during role-play

Understanding the world

People and communities
My family
Baby photographs
Local community (Attingham park)

The world
Text Fiction

The hungry caterpillar

Jack and the bean stalk
Percy the park keeper
Titch

Text Non fiction

Information books about growth in

Humans, animals and plants

Poems and songs

Trips/ visits

Attingham park
Home farm
Dogs trust

Parents in partnership
Sharing baby photographs and topic ideas, parent
visits (new baby), parent meetings, parent helper.

Enabling environments

Sensory garden
Action and counting songs e.g. head, shoulders, knees Mud kitchen/ water play
and toes, incy wincy spider, theres a worm
Role-play area (garden centre, doctors, etc)
at the bottom of the garden, 5 little speckled frogs etc.Digging area (soil and sand)
Construction area
Forest school

Vegetables and fruits from different cultures

healthy eating
Growth planting vegetables, flower seeds, bulbs
etc.
Our pets (caring for living things animals and
plants).
Seasons

Technology

Cameras
Microscopes
Calculators
Digital scales
Computer programs (big cook/little cook)

Mathematics
Numbers

Shape, space and Measure

Shoe size graph

Pet survey
Seed counting
Daily calendar
Counting rhymes

Height chart
Comparing sizes, shapes of seeds, our selves and animals
Shapes in the environment
Measures (cooking, water/sand play)
Money (role-play)
Time (sand timer/ clocks)