Nursery Curriculum 2022/23

Autumn 1 Autumn 2 Spring 1 Spring 2 Summer 1 Summer 2

Question/ Nursery Rhymes and All About Festivals and Celebrations Arctic Adventure It’s Spring Out of this World Under the Sea
Theme Me
Books My Mum is Brilliant Harry and the Dinosaurs make a Lost and Found Everything Spring Whatever next Shark in the Dark
My Dad is Fantastic Christmas list Stick Man When will it be Spring Field Trip to the Moon Smiley Shark
My Mum The Snowman The Bear Six Little Chicks The Darkest Dark The Whale Song
My Dad The Jolly Christmas Postman Dear Santa Penguin Small The Odd Egg The Skies above my Eyes Rainbow Fish
My Mum and Dad make me laugh Spot’s First Christmas The Light in the The Emperor’s Egg We’re all Going on an Egg Hunt The Marvellous Moon Map Sharing a Shell
Hug Night The Snow Bear Pete the Cat Big Easter Adventure Aliens love Underpants Commotion in the Ocean
No Matter What Topsy and Tim Bonfire Night Spark in The Runaway Wok Chickens Aren’t the Only Ones Pootle5 Light House Keeper’s Lunch
Guess How Much I Love You the Sky Lanterns and Firecrackers The Egg Drop On the Moon Lottie’s Letter
Nursery Rhymes What do you Celebrate? Books about The Great race How to Catch the Easter Bunny Laura’s Star Non-fiction books
Diwali Non-fiction books How to catch a Star
Non-fiction books
PSED Belonging; talking about family and school, Asking friends to play Conflict solving Likes and dislikes Perseverance and can do attitude Getting Ready for Reception.
and being part of a team Tidying up and helping Joining in with friends Recognising needs Keeping themselves safe Waiting and patience
Golden values and rules Asking for help Sharing Taking turns Making up games Adapting behaviour
Making friends and talking to new people Recognising my feelings and talking about Being proud of myself and talking about Recognising the needs of others and Trying new things Recognising others’ feelings
Classroom routines and toileting them my achievements that these don’t always align with our Talking to strangers Making healthy choices
Choosing toys and resources Why rules are important Hand washing and teeth brushing own Conflict resolution

Physical Throughout the Year the children will be taught to:

Move confidently in a range of different ways on different levels at varying speeds during multi-skills and outdoor provision Build up confidence when balancing during gymnastics and outdoor provision
To be confident when mark making, holding tools appropriately and practicing name writing throughout the whole year Become independent with toileting/coats/snack time
Develop balancing skills (eg on bikes and
scooters)
Collaborate to manage and carry large items
e.g a plank
Express physical needs e.g. hungry, tired
C&L Sing rhymes and songs and know them
Listening to longer stories
Expressing opinions
Joining in with repetitive stories
How to listen; look, quiet, engaged
Literacy Phonics- environmental sounds
Listening walks
Listening moments
Drumming outdoors
Sound stories
Favourite sounds
Describe and find it
Identify sounds made by hidden objects
Mathematics Recite numbers in order by singing number
songs and rhyme
Recognise shapes in the environment an use
them in their play
Knowing when there are the same number
of things e.g. 2 cakes, one for you and one
for me
Say one number for each item in order
Know the last number reached is how many
there are (cardinal principle)
Use large muscle movements to wave Throwing and catching a large ball
flags and streamers Moving in different ways (eg running,
Taking coats on and off, and trousers hopping, skipping, crawling)
etc. up and down for toileting Running, stopping and changing
Making snips in paper direction without bumping into things
washing and drying my own hands
Use role play Listen and make comments
Respond to instructions Talk about familiar books
Starting a conversation Debating on a point of view
Listening to instructions Answering simple questions
Explaining what they are doing Use new vocabulary in speech
Phonics- Instrumental sounds Phonics- body percussion
Make shakers Action songs (daily regardless of
Which Instrument aspect)
Adjust the volume Roly Poly (to the tune of Wind the
Grandmother’s footsteps Bobbin up)
Matching sounds Follow the sound
Story sounds Noisy Neighbour
Hidden instruments The Pied Piper
Make a band Musical Statues
Animal sounds with instruments Jack in the Box
Just dance
Look at me (using mirrors)
Recite numbers past 5 Spot numbers of things outdoors
Know that numbers tell you how many Making marks and calling them
things there are numbers in play
Talk about numbers Play with different building sets and
Lining up shapes and fitting them into talk about it
boxes Make comparisons between objects
Recognise three objects without relating to size, length, weight and
counting them capacity e.g heavy, light, full, empty, big,
Counting claps and jumps as well as small
apples and buses Identify and talk about patterns e.g.
stripy top, spotty wallpaper, pointy leaf
Go up steps and stairs using alternate
feet
Able to use and remember a sequence
of patterns of movements to music and
rhythm (dance)
Speaking with confidence
Understand a question or instruction
with two parts
Useing ‘because’ and ‘and’ in sentences
Phonics- Rhythm and Rhyme
Read rhyming books – eg The
Gingerbread Man
Chanting and singing Nursery Rhymes
Rhyming Soup/Bingo
Rhyming pairs
Finish the rhyme
Hear the Beat
Mystery rhyming bag
Odd One Out
Sharing things out in different ways e.g.
farm animals in two fields then three
Use words like ‘round’ and ‘straight’
when talking about shapes
Describe a familiar route
Select shapes appropriately when
building e.g. flat surfaces for building and
triangles for a roof
Create repeating patterns
Notice and correct an error in a
repeating pattern
Skip, hop, stand one one leg and hold a
pose for a game like musical statues
Make up games or group activities
Making lines and marks with a pencil
Being careful with scissors and knives
Ask questions
Understand how and why questions
Communication in play
Talk about what they are doing and
what they will do tomorrow
Phonics- Alliteration and sounds
I Spy names
Making Aliens
Digging for Treasure
Make sound box/bag
Name play
Mouth Movement, Voice sounds
Metal Mike
Chain games
Whose Voice?
Sound Story time
Watch my sound
Animal noises
I can use my fingers, pictures or marks
to show how many there are, up to 5
Match a numeral to the right number
of things, up to 5
Use words like ‘under’ and ‘next to’ to
describe where things are (without
pointing)
Combine shapes to make new ones
Show a preference for a dominant
hand
Carrying things up and down stairs
Notice when running, they get hot and
breathless
Hold a pencil near the top using a
thumb and two fingers
Listening and remembering stories
Pay attention to more than one thing
at a time
Guess what happens next in a story
Phonics- oral blending and segmenting
(RWI with N2s)
Toy talk
Clapping sounds
Which One
Cross the River
I spy, Segmenting
What is Missing
Shopping bag
Fred Talking
Fred Fingers
Use more than and fewer than in play
See which shapes could fit when doing
puzzles
Solve real world maths problems with
numbers up to 5
Explore 2D and 3D shapes using
language such as ‘sides’, ‘corners’,
‘straight’, ‘flat’ and ‘round’
Use language such as ‘first’, ‘then’,
‘next’ to describe events
Understanding Become confident with new routines
the World Harvest; hands on exploration of natural
materials (plants and foods)
Begin to make sense of their life story and
family history
Show an interest in different occupations eg
what their parents do
Develop positive attitudes about the
differences between people; talk about
different heights, hair colour, skin colour,
traditions and families but also highlight the
similarities between everyone
Expressive Art Singing Nursery rhymes Using musical
and Design instruments
Making nursery rhyme characters
Self-portrait for display
Collage of things they love
Small world pictures of children
Pinecones in the home corner to use as
food e.g pour and mix as pasta
Invite artists, musicians and craftspeople into Wrap up your friend
the setting, one per half term.
Enrichment & Outdoor learning
Experiences Parents come in for show and tell
Develop positive attitudes about the Talk about what they see using arctic
differences between people; learn about vocabulary
Christmas, Diwali, bonfire night, Show an interest in different occupations
Hanukkah eg explorer (Robert Falcon Scott)
Talk about differences between materials Talk about differences between materials
and changes they notice eg melting and changes they notice eg ice to water,
chocolate. shake salt on them
Know that there are different countries
in the world and talk about the
differences seen or experiences in
photos or real life e.g the arctic, Britain,
spain, kenya; anywhere they have been
on holiday
Knowing songs and lines for the Sing songs
Christmas Nativity Make cold related crafts
Christmas cards Design an arctic animal
Bonfire pictures Build a habitat from box modelling
Mixing colours Cold colour fabric collage
Diwali lights Small world arctic scene
Small world nativity figures Invite artists, musicians and
Box modelling wrap presents craftspeople into the setting, one per
half term.
Woodwork workshop using hammers Cold colour mixing
and nails.
Bonfire Night Chinese New Year
Halloween dressing up Arctic virtual field trip
Diwali
Hanukkah
Christmas
Understand key features of the life
cycles of a plant and animal
Hands on exploration of natural
materials; flowers, leaves, grass, rocks,
seeds, bark etc.
Talk about what they see using spring
vocabulary
Show an interest in different occupations
eg farmer
Plant seeds and care for growing plants
Make mini beasts
Make animals and their babies
Sing songs
Mix colours
Use different media to make models
Spring flowers
Put straws in home corner to use as
flowers
Invite artists, musicians and
craftspeople into the setting, one per
half term.
Visit from local farm
Growing plants
Watching life cycle of real frogs or
butterflies
Talk about what they see using space
vocabulary
Show an interest in different occupations
eg astronaut (Niel Armstrong)
Explore and talk about different forces
they can feel eg push and pull, magnets,
water pushes up when they push a boat
directly down, stretch elastic.
Make rockets with box models
Make moons and stars
Sing space related songs
Play musical instruments
Use child size boxes to make a rocket
Invite artists, musicians and
craftspeople into the setting, one per
half term.
Warm colour mixing
Planetarium visit
Now press play space visit
Explore collections of things with
similar and different properties; shells,
pebbles, rocks etc.
Talk about what they see using
underwater vocabulary
Show an interest in different occupations
eg marine biologist
Begin to understand the need to respect
and care for the environment eg
pollution
Make aquatic pictures Beach pictures
Beach role play
Shells in home corner to use as plates or
food
Invite artists, musicians and
craftspeople into the setting, one per
half term.
Sports Day
Now press play under the sea
See and hold real fish
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Autumn 1 Autumn 2 Spring 1 Spring 2 Summer 1 Summer 2

Question All about me Jungle Dinosaurs Spring Let’s go on a journey What is your favourite story?
and making friends.
Required - How old am I? Birthdays. - Name of jungle animals - Names of dinosaurs Speaking and listening - Types of transport - Listen to some traditional
Knowledge/Skills - Family – siblings, - Keeping our planet - What is a dinosaur? Gross and Fine motor Skills - Places to visit tales
grandparents healthy - Dinosaur foot prints and Pencil control - Sea side places and what - Listen to some popular
- Making friends - Rainforests fossils Set 1 sounds they are like children’s classics.
- Being kind How to listen to a story
- Habitats in the jungle - Dinosaur sounds - Old and new transport - Structure of stories
- Sharing
- Understand and follow rules - Animal skins and patterns - Know some dinosaur - Role playing characters
- Scissor Skills - Jungle trees facts, what they eat, Spring changes from stories
- Know how to use manners where they live etc Weather - Character names from
- Manage toileting needs - Christmas story The world around us Traditional stories
- I know how to be kind - Halloween - Chinese New Year Baby animals - Favourite stories
- Gross and Fine motor Skills - Diwali Growing seeds
- Identify how we are all Mini beasts
different
- Understanding differences
- Knows the children and staff
in the class
- Harvest Festival
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Enhanced Home corner – enhance - Jungle role play area Forest school activity – dinosaur Meet the lambs Sea side role play area and Role play area linked to a book.
Learning throughout the topic. - Animal skin patterns to nests on the school field Plant and grow seeds enhancements.
Opportunities look at Large Dinosaur figures to enhance Outdoor mini beast hunt Buckets and spades in the sand.
Candles and cake decorating in Leaf hunt
the playdough area. - Photographs of jungles and small world. Tracks for vehicles.
Mini beast hotel
animals
Photographs of our family.
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Baby photos display

Books Rainbow Fish Rumble in the jungle
The Smartest Giant in Town Elmer stories
Ebooks based on starting school Ronald the Rhino ebook
Topsy and Tim Monkey Trouble
Selfish Crocodile Walking through the jungle
Dear Zoo
Giraffes can’t dance
Stickman - Christmas
Non-fiction books Everything Spring Non-fiction books linked to transport Three little pigs
Harry and a bucketful of dinosaurs When will it be Spring The runaway train Goldilocks
Tyrannosaurus Drip, Dinosaurus Six Little Chicks Tractor stories Little Red riding hood
Ten little Dinosaurs The Odd Egg All Aboard the Bobo road Gruffalo
Dinosaurs love under pants We’re all Going on an Egg Hunt Duck in the truck Owl Babies
The dinosaur that pooped stories Pete the Cat Big Easter Adventure Mr Grumpy’s motor car The Gingerbread Man
Chickens Aren’t the Only Ones Lost and Found A Squash and a Squeeze
The Egg Drop Oi get off our train
How to Catch the Easter Bunny The train ride
Handa’s Surprise

PSED Belonging Friendships How can we help each other? Likes and dislikes Perseverance and can do attitude Getting Ready for Reception. Sharing
Golden Values Golden Values Group sharing Recognising needs and rights Adapting behaviour and working together: being a good
Making friends Being a good friend Accepting the needs of others Waiting and patience Keeping themselves safe friend.
Classroom routines Sharing Self help
Changes- transition into Reception.
Sharing and taking turns Tidying up Talk about their achievements
Prepare children: / visit new classes/
Stay and play/ meet new teacher
Children to share feelings about the
transition, and to talk about these
throughout.
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Physical Throughout the year children will:

Move confidently in a range of different ways on different levels at varying speeds during multi-skills and outdoor provision
Build up confidence when balancing during gymnastics and outdoor provision
To be confident when mark making, holding tools appropriately and practicing name writing throughout the whole year
Become independent with toileting/coats/snack time

C&L
Throughout the year children will…
Learn to speak with confidence
Learn to listen and make comments
Respond to instructions
Sing rhymes and songs
Use role play to enact experiences

Literacy Throughout the year children will…

Be provided with mark making opportunities

Show an interest in a wide range of books
Use daily RWI lessons to engage in learning of new sounds

Mathematics Recite numbers in order by singing
number songs and rhyme
Recognise numbers of personal
significance
Recognise numbers in the
environment
Use numbers in their own play
Recognise shapes in the environment
an use them in their play
Sort shapes
Understanding Discuss and share routines, traditions
the World and celebrations that are special to
families.
How are families made up?
Roles of family members
Children to recite numbers in order
using a range of number songs and
rhymes Numbers in the immediate
environment
Children to recite numbers to 10
Children to begin to count objects
Children to use the language of every
day shapes- big/small/tall
Children to begin to learn names of
2d shapes during focussed activities
Patterns
Packing for a jungle expedition – what
is needed in a bag for the jungle
Find out about an explorer
Where are jungles?
What do jungles look like?
Children to recite numbers in order
using a range of number songs and
rhymes
Begin to recognise numbers 1-5 and
practice these regularly Children to
construct using a variety of different
shapes, investigating which shapes
work and which did not work
What did the world look like during
the time of dinosaurs?
Characteristics of living things.
Where did dinosaurs live?
What did they eat? Is this the same as
animals today?
Children to recite numbers in order
using a range of number songs and
rhymes
Recognise numbers 1-5 confidently
and begin to match objects to
quantity.
Children to begin to notice
similarities and differences in shapes.
Heavy and light
Planting seeds and watching them
change.
Bug hunts – habitats etc
What changes happen in Spring
Children to recite numbers in order
using a range of number songs and
rhymes
Begin to recognise numbers 6-10
Be secure in numbers 1-5
Recognise a circle, square, triangle,
rectangle, star, heart, diamond
confidently
Full and Empty
New and old transport
Find out how different transport
work
Seaside towns – what do we see and
do there
Maps and plotting journeys
Children to recite numbers in order
using a range of number songs and
rhymes
Recognise numbers 1-10 Confidently
and match quantity of objects.
Order 1-5 1-10
More/Less
Children to create a piece of artwork
using a variety of different shapes for
a purpose
Beginning to represent number/
amounts through fingers, marks or
objects
Baking Gingerbread men
Planting beans
Knowing what a plant needs to grow
Looking at growth- What do plant’s
needs. Plant seeds with parents and
watch them grow
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Expressive Art Paintings of ourselves and family Painting jungle animals Footprint stamping like a dinosaur Mother’s day cards Box modelling cars, aeroplanes, trains, Collage characters from our stories
and Design Free choice collaging Mixing colours to make animals Dinosaur models boats etc Character masks
Birthday cards colours Dinosaur paintings and collages Make boats to sail in water Owl nests
Printing Clay models Paper aeroplanes Modelling characters using creative
Learning to use the creative provision Leaf cutting for the jungle Dinosaur masks Hot air balloons using papermache resources
correctly Christmas crafts
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Enrichment & Outside walk to look for the signs of Jungle Day – dressing up, jungle Dinosaur craft afternoon with parents Bug hunts Fire engine visit Teddy bears picnic – parent afternoon
Experiences Autumn. snacks, crafts – parent afternoon