Nursery Yearly Overview

Term	Topics	Communication & Language	PSED	Physical Development	Literacy Reading & Writing	Mathematics Number	SSM	The World	EUMM	Wow Opportunities
Autumn 1	All about Me and My World	• Listening in small groups • Begins to use talk when pretending.	• Settling into our new environment. • What are rules? • To make friends and develop relationships.	•Developing control. •Beginning to handle equipment and tools. • Learning about healthy diet. •Beginning to manage their own hygiene and personal needs.	•Developing giving meanings to things they draw. • Handles books carefully. • Looks at books independently	• Shows an interest in number. • Counts by rote • Counts things that cannot be moved like jumps or claps • Beginning to represent numbers with fingers.	• What is a shape? • Making shape arrangements. • Develop an understanding of time based events.	• Who am I? • What are my likes and dislikes? •Talk about themselves and members of the family.	• Portraits •Manipulating materials.	Forest School
Autumn 2	Light and Dark							• What is light and what is dark? • What gives us light. • Looking at the changes of Autumn.	• Pattern making. • Explores how sound can be changed. •Describing textures.	Forest School
Spring 1	Traditional Tales & Rhymes	• Uses and understands humour. • Can follow a story with .no props or pictures. • Uses vocabulary focused on objects.	Feelings and Emotions.	• Making marks using a range of media and giving meaning. • Handling equipment and a range of writing tools. • Learning about healthy diet and exercise. •Beginning to be independent in self-care	•Links sounds to letters, naming and sounding the letters of the alphabet. • Giving meanings to marks as they draw.	• Selects the correct numerals to represent 1-5. •Counts out up to 6 from a set of objects. • Touch counts. •Order digits.	• Shapes in the environment. • Looking at different sizes.	• Shows an interest in different ways of life. • Interacts with age appropriate software.	• Role-play. • Musical Instruments. • Singing favourite songs. •Dancing and moving rhythmically.	Visit the local library.
Spring 2	People in the Community		Feelings and Emotions.				• Shapes in the environment. • Looking at different sizes.	• Roles in the community: •Shopkeepers • Vets • Dentists • Nurses	• To construct with a purpose in mind using a range of construction materials.	Firefighters Visit
Summer 1	Living and Growing.	• Beginning to understand what and why questions.	• I can play with others around me and initiate conversations.	•Developing control and coordination of movement. • Handling equipment and tools, including for writing. • To show an understanding of how healthy eating and exercise. • Managing their own hygiene and personal needs.	• Hears and says initial sounds in words. •Links sounds to letters, naming and sounding the letters of the alphabet. • Writes own name.	• Selects the correct numerals to represent 1-5 and 1-10. • Use counting on and number knowledge for simple addition (set making).	•Prepositional language. • Let’s describe shapes.	• Observing changes in plants. • Caring for our world.	• We can create models.	Animal Visit
Summer 2	Travelling	• Beginning to understand what and why questions.					•Prepositional language. • Let’s describe shapes.	• Looking at different forms of transport.	• We can create models.	Hoar Farm