Autumn Term 2024

AREAS OF LEARNING FOR THE FOUNDATION STAGE

Nursery and Reception

Weekly themes

Foundation Stage planning is carried out on a weekly basis with a variety of topics being selected each term. We plan through a mixture of following children’s interests and ensuring a broad curriculum content. For this reason, some topics may be removed or swapped.  For the Autumn Term 2024, Nursery and Reception will focus on:

Summer Term
Week 1	All about me
Week 2	My body
Week 3	My senses
Week 4	My family
Week 5	People who help us
Week 6	People who help us
Week 7	Harvest
Week 8	Harvest
Half Term Half
Week 9	Bonfire night/fireworks
Week 10	Bonfire night/ fireworks
Week 11	Hibernation
Week 12	Nocturnal animals
Week 13	Nativity story
Week 14	Christmas around the world
Week 15	Santa’s Grotto

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Teaching and learning will be determined by both staff and children but linked to these topics.

Activities are both child led and adult led in order to cover all of the seven areas of learning. Each half term both Nursery and Reception parents are able to view the medium term plans outlining the activities that we plan to deliver.

A Guide to Foundation Planning

We use the ‘Development Matters’ document along with our own curriculum objectives and ‘White Rose Maths’ documents to aid our planning. These documents outline the key skills that children should achieve during certain age ranges, e.g. birth to three year olds, three to four year olds, Reception and the Early Learning Goals. We plan a range of practical, play based activities to ensure that children have been given a range of opportunities to develop these skills and demonstrate their learning.

The seven areas of learning through which the children learn have been broken down into sixteen assessment scales. These are outlined below:

• Communication and Language (C&L)
• Personal, Social and Emotional Development (PSED)
• Physical Development (PD)
• Specific Areas of Learning
  • Literacy (LIT)
  • Mathematics (MAT)
  • Understanding the World (UTW)
  • Expressive Arts and Design (EAD)

Areas of study over the year

Autumn 2024

Summer 2024

Spring 2024

Send provision at Owlsmoor Primary School

*If you require additional information relating to our school curriculum, please ask at the school office or the Class teacher.

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