DALMAIN PRIMARY SCHOOL – LONG TERM PLAN

RECEPTION– AUTUMN TERM

POSSIBLE TOPIC TITLES / OURSELVES
EVENTS DURING TERM / October – National Poetry Day, Harvest festival
Black History / November – Remembrance Sunday, Diwali
December – Ramadan? Hannukah, Eid? Christmas
COMMUNICATION, LANGUAGE AND LITERACY. / Sharing about ourselves/ alphabet song/ name writing/ descriptive writing about ourselves/ sequencing/ role-play/ handwriting patterns/ sound of the week/ telephone conversation/ learning about each other.
MATHEMATICAL DEVELOPMENT / Counting songs/ body patterns/ counting assessment 1:1/ repeating patterns/ order clothes on a clothes line/ sequencing how I come to school/ shape pictures/ ordering days of the week/ label a face/ dice work/ capacity using the water tray/ footprint maths journey/ make clocks/ Incy wincy spider.
KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING OF THE WORLD / Explore Wildlife garden/ FS outdoor areas using all senses/ ICT- draw picture of your face- label features/ Name parts of the body/ Role play a hospital/ Discuss how we look after our bodies/ Footprint journey of my route to school/ senses table/ make a movable puppet/ ICT- CBeebies Storytime- our bodies/ Sound walk around school/ Visit a Hindu temple/ Discuss families around the world at Christmas.
CREATIVE DEVELOPMENT / Holiday painting/ Self-portraits/ vegetable prints/ role-play a hospital- act out scenes/ Body part songs/ make spider model.
Music unit of work- Exploring musical instruments.
PERSONAL, SOCIAL AND EMOTIONAL DEVELOPMENT / Sharing about ourselves/ class rules/ 5 senses
PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT / Athletics- running in a straight line/ Gymnastics- balancing on apparatus/ Dance- repeating patterns.
SUGGESTED VISITS / Wildlife garden/ Hindu temple

DALMAIN PRIMARY SCHOOL – LONG TERM PLAN

RECEPTION SPRING TERM

POSSIBLE TOPIC TITLES / TRADITIONAL STORIES AND RHYMES
EVENTS DURING TERM / Eid?
Chinese New Year / World Book Day/ Red nose day/ Mother’s Day/ Shrove Tuesday/ Lent/ Easter
COMMUNICATION, LANGUAGE AND LITERACY. / Sequencing stories/ story sacks/ story maps/ 3 bears- write invitations, lists/ story tapes/ nursery rhymes/ teddy bear’s picnic- recipes/ build 3 pigs house- write instructions for kitchen appliances.
MATHEMATICAL DEVELOPMENT / Count objects/ recognise numerals 1-9/ sorting objects- using comparative language/ relate adding by combining objects.
KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING OF THE WORLD / Chinese new year- where is China? Build 3 Pigs house/ World stories- games/ family tree- relate to 3 pigs/
SCIENCE WEEK- plant and observe cress seeds- write predictions. Floating and sinking- fruit.
CREATIVE DEVELOPMENT / Make Chinese New Year masks- Chinese shadow dances/ ICT- parts of computer/ Healthy eating/ printing/ paint pictures- 3 pigs/ collage of Ugly Duckling. Find out about Picasso.
Music units of work- Composing musical projects/ Structure.
PERSONAL, SOCIAL AND EMOTIONAL DEVELOPMENT / Develop self esteem/ manage personal hygiene/ work as part of a team/ develop respect for others.
PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT / Games: throw and catch/ kick a ball. Athletics: skipping. Gymnastics: Travelling and balance Outdoor and Adventurous: develop co-ordination on outdoor equipment.
SUGGESTED VISITS / Dalmain’s Vegetable garden/ Wildlife garden

DALMAIN PRIMARY SCHOOL – LONG TERM PLAN

RECEPTION – SUMMER TERM

POSSIBLE TOPIC TITLES / ANIMALS OF THE WORLD
EVENTS DURING TERM / May Day/ Father’s Day/ SATs/ QCA Tests/ Sports Day/ Y6 Production/ Summer Social/ Open Afternoon/ School Journey
COMMUNICATION, LANGUAGE AND LITERACY. / Noah’s Ark/ Jungle party- write invites/ list items for a trip to the jungle/ create Jungle role play area/ animal facts and descriptions/ learn meanings of words to do with life cycles/ mini-beast books- describe and label/ create own animal- dinosaur- create a dinosaur den.
MATHEMATICAL DEVELOPMENT / Animal counting and number problems/ order pictures from smallest to biggest/ measuring maths/ capacity animal shapes/ mini-beast pictogram- bar chart.
KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING OF THE WORLD / Collect and observe mini-beasts- classify them using a simple key/ caring for mini-beasts/ learn about the life-cycle of frogs/ make a dinosaur- other animals/ ladybird cookies/ create a worm farm- compost area in wildlife garden.
CREATIVE DEVELOPMENT / Noah’s ark pictures/ animal patterns/ use instruments to make animal sounds/ mini-beast collage- mural/ butterfly shapes/ dinosaur paintings/ mosaic animals/ animal songs/ make a volcano/ animal – nature dances.
Music units of work: Duration/ Timbre.
PERSONAL, SOCIAL AND EMOTIONAL DEVELOPMENT / Discussions about animals- how to care for them/ their habitats/ make a nest for a baby dinosaur/ discuss how baby animals are cared for by their parents- how can we care for the mini-beasts? Pets? Have an animal themed party.
PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT / Games: QCA unit 3- Ball skills- seaside games- throw the ball through the hoop./ Unit 3- Games/ Unit 1- Athletics
Gymnastics: QCA unit 5: Create a sequence
SUGGESTED VISITS / Wildlife garden/ Local woodland- nature reserve