Nursery Curriculum

• Spread the Happiness Texts Autumn 1 – Texts - Elmer, Blue Balloon, Minions, Giraffe Can’t Dance, The Three Little Pigs, Monsters Love Underpants.
• Key Vocabulary – Knowledge of feelings vocabulary
• Reading Buddies/ Reading Together
• Tales Toolkit: Character
• Name recognition
• Story maps
• Story structure
• Story stones
• Mark making, Funky Fingers area
• Letters and Sounds Phase 1 phonics
• Daily Shared Reading sessions elements of Guided Reading
• Whizzy Word Wall, Whizzy Writers
• Sparkly Spellers provision
• Squiggle While You Wiggle
• Dough Disco
• Role-play stories
• Puppets
• Following instructions
• Writing, Reading and Squiggle area provision
• WELLCOMM
• DEAL initiative

• Spread the Happiness Texts Autumn 2 – How to Grow a Dinosaur, We’re Going on a Bear hunt, Frozen, Trolls Glitter Party, The Christmas Story
• Key Vocabulary – Knowledge of feelings vocabulary
• Reading Buddies/ Reading Together
• Tales Toolkit: Character
• Name recognition
• Story maps
• Story structure
• Story stones
• Mark making, Funky Fingers area
• Letters and Sounds Phase 1 phonics
• Daily Shared Reading sessions elements of Guided Reading
• Whizzy Word Wall, Whizzy Writers
• Sparkly Spellers provision
• Squiggle While You Wiggle
• Dough Disco
• Role-play stories
• Puppets
• Following instructions
• Writing, Reading and Squiggle area provision
• WELLCOMM
• DEAL initiative

• Introduce and embed our new curriculum drivers, RESPECT, CHALLENGE and COLLABORATION
• Feelings Dance – How do different characters move when they are feeling…
• PE session with Mr Sykes concentrating on team sports, ball skills, yoga and spatial awareness
• Independent continuous outdoor provision area
• Bikes and scooter
• Climbing fram
• Squiggle While You Wiggle/ Dough Disco / Funky Finger
• DEAL initiativ
• Access to a range of both fine and gross motor resources in continuous provision areas

• Introduce and embed our new curriculum drivers, RESPECT, CHALLENGE and COLLABORATION
• Feelings and Emotions Dance – How do different characters move when they are feeling…?
• PE session with Mr Sykes concentrating on team sports, ball skills, yoga and spatial awareness.
• Independent continuous outdoor provision areas
• Bikes and scooters, Climbing frame, Obstacle course
• Yoga, Go Noodle, Just Dance
• Squiggle While You Wiggle/ Dough Disco/ Funky Fingers
• DEAL initiative
• Access to a range of both fine and gross motor resources in continuous provision areas

• Introduce and embed our new curriculum drivers, RESPECT, CHALLENGE and COLLABORATION
• School values
• Metacognition strategies/ Mindfulness
• SEAL: New beginnings, spread happiness
• Personal Hygiene – washing hands, using tissues etc. Hygiene Heroes
• ABCD: E safety
• DATE: Activity 1 Pupils will be able to identify and name some feelings.
• RSE: One Day
• Class and school rules
• RA Values Circles and RA strategies
• Growth Mind-set Language
• Friendship & responsibility online
• Story Book – Digiduck’s big decision
• Prevent: Respect myself, respect my friends.
• International Peace Day
• Emotional Literacy and feelings flower
• Friendship skills

• Introduce and embed our new curriculum drivers, RESPECT, CHALLENGE and COLLABORATION
• School values - linked to whole school RE values
• SMILE Rainbow –Wellbeing working wall
• Mindfulness - breathing, stories, strategies
• Metacognition strategies
• Understanding my feelings and others
• Understanding manners and why we have them
• SEAL: Getting on and falling out
• Personal Hygiene – washing hands, using tissues etc. Hygiene Heroes
• ABCD: Generic, E safety
• DATE: Activity 2 Interpret facial expressions
• RSE: Making friends, who is your friend?
• Class and school rules
• RA Values Circles and RA strategies
• Growth Mind-set Language
• RE: Which times are special and why?
• Anti-bullying Week (‘United Against Bullying’)
• Prevent: Respect myself, respect my friends.
• Emotional Literacy and colour monster.

• Magic Maths – Number, counting, Numicon, making decisions, problem solving
• Singapore Maths – Tens frame
• Fractions
• Pattern
• Shape and space
• Measuring
• Positional Language
• Maths area provision/Maths Challenge area

• Magic Maths – Number, counting, Numicon, making decisions, problem solving, five/tens frames
• WRM – Sorting, matching and comparing, It’s Me 123, Light and Dark
• CPA approach
• Fractions
• Pattern
• Shape and space
• Measuring
• Positional Language
• Maths area provision/ Maths Challenge area

• Introduce and embed our new curriculum drivers, TECHNOLOGY, RESPECT, CHALLENGE and COLLABORATION

INTENT:

• Knowledge focus topic wall – Spread the Happiness/ Rainbow
• Knowledge of what different feelings are
• Knowledge of what people do to make others happy
• Knowledge of who makes us happy and why?
• Knowledge of people in our community who spread happiness: Our Local Heroes (Mrs Wackett/ Mrs Turnbull)
• Knowledge of people in the wider world who spread happiness: Inspirational Person Shonette Bason
• Knowledge of key historical family/school/local events
• Knowledge of our classroom environment
• Knowledge of local food venue: Baking and cooking
• Small world area provision: Jungle, farm, space, as well as child initiated small world provision.
• Water area provision
• Malleable area provision: play dough, rice, ice, lentils, porridge, jelly, shaving foam, sand, glitter, slime
• Knowledge of Weather and Seasons: Autumn
• Investigation area provision
• Use of the IWB, ipads, QR codes, listening station, bee bots
• Use of interactive mechanical resources in continuous provision

• Introduce and embed our new curriculum drivers, TECHNOLOGY, RESPECT, CHALLENGE and COLLABORATION

INTENT:

• Knowledge focus topic wall – Spread the Happiness/ Rainbow
• Knowledge of what different feelings are
• Knowledge of what people do to make others happy
• Knowledge of who makes us happy and why?
• Knowledge of people in our community who spread happiness: Our Local Heroes
• Knowledge of people in the wider world who spread happiness: Inspirational Person
• Knowledge of key historical family/school/local events
• Knowledge of our classroom environment
• Knowledge of local food venue: Baking and cooking
• Small world area provision: Jungle, farm, space, as well as child initiated small world provision.
• Water area provision
• Malleable area provision: play dough, rice, ice, lentils, porridge, jelly, shaving foam, sand, glitter, slime
• Knowledge of Weather and Seasons: Autumn/ Winter
• Investigation area provision
• Use of the IWB, ipads, QR codes, listening station, bee bots
• Use of interactive mechanical resources in continuous provision 

INTENT:

• Knowledge of an artist (feelings)
• Knowledge of mixing and exploring colours
• Knowledge of how to use a range of creative media
• Creative area provision: Independent
• Collage, structure, printing, mask/puppet making
• Junk modelling
• Singing and dancing sessions
• Musical instruments
• Role-play area
• DEAL initiative and strategies
• Construction area provision: lego, lunar park, magnetic blocks, stickle bricks, popoids, knex, wooden blocks, silver blocks, rubber bricks as well as child initiated construction provision.

INTENT:

• Knowledge of an artist
• Knowledge of mixing and exploring colours
• Knowledge of how to use a range of creative media
• Knowledge of how to use a range of tools
• Creative area provision: Independent
• Collage, structure, printing, mask/puppet making
• Junk modelling
• Singing and dancing sessions
• Musical instruments
• DEAL initiative and strategies and Role-play
• Christmas Nativity/ Christmas Singing
• Construction area provision: lego, lunar park, magnetic blocks, stickle bricks, popoids, knex, wooden blocks, silver blocks, rubber bricks as well as child initiated construction provision.