Planning for Continuous Provision enhancements for a fairytale unit, including challenges. Suitable for Reception and Year 1.

Continuous Provision planning for a winter theme suitable for EY or Y1. Based on winter weather and Christmas.

Planning for Continuous Provision for a Hallowe'en unit for Early Years or Year 1 .

Planning on a dinosaur theme for continuous provision enhancements. Suitable for Early Years or Year 1.

Medium Term planning for Reception Early Years Autumn Term 2 across the areas of learning. Topics covered: Fire and Fireworks, Frozen, Hanukkah, Christmas

Medium Term planning for Reception Early Years Autumn Term 1 across the areas of learning. Topics covered: Harvest, Farm, Autumn, Diwali

A tracker to show children's progress within Phonics Phase 1 Aspect 7 segmenting and blending and determine next steps. Handy for teachers/TAs to use during interventions.

A weekly plan for daily activities to consolidate phonics Phase 1 Aspect 7 oral segmenting and blending. I have used it for additional intervention with a teacher/TA.

Early Years Reception planning for resources for each area of Continuous Provision (indoors and outdoors)

Planning for an overview of enhancements for Early Years in areas of provision for Autumn term 2. Topics covered: Fire and Fireworks, Frozen, Hanukkah, Christmas

Planning for an overview of enhancements for Early Years in areas of provision for Autumn term 1. Topics covered: Farm, Harvest, Autumn, Diwali

Story scribing is used to build writing skills in Early Years. This is an overview of story scribing and how to do it to ensure high standards and enable all staff/volunteers/students to move learning forwards. The sounds/tricky words expected to be known are based on those used in Actiphons and Letters and Sounds, so may need adjusting if you use alternative phonics programmes. It would be useful as an introduction to story scribing and to explain story scribing to staff, volunteers, governors, SLT and Ofsted. See also Story scribing autumn/spring term and summer term which provide checklists for all staff and adults working with children to show expectations at differing phonic levels.

Story scribing is used to build writing skills in Early Years. This is a checklist of expectations for children of different abilities in Reception for adults to use as they work with the children to ensure high standards and enable all staff/volunteers/students to move learning forwards. The sounds/tricky words expected to be known are based on those used in Actiphons and Letters and Sounds, so may need adjusting if you use alternative phonics programmes. See also Story scribing autumn/spring expectations and Story scribing overview to explain story scribing to staff, volunteers, governors, SLT and Ofsted.

Story scribing is used to build writing skills in Early Years. This is a checklist of expectations for children of different abilities in Reception for adults to use as they work with the children to ensure high standards and enable all staff/volunteers/students to move learning forwards. The sounds/tricky words expected to be known are based on those used in Actiphons and Letters and Sounds, so may need adjusting if you use alternative phonics programmes. See also Story scribing summer term expectations and Story scribing overview to explain story scribing to staff, volunteers, governors, SLT and Ofsted.

A lesson plan and continuous provision activities for Religious Education on the theme of Passover. This was an observed lesson and includes in depth explanation for the observers (non-EY specialists) of how the lesson will look, which Continuous Provision activities the children are accessing on the theme for the week, what their prior learning is and how the children are developing their skills across all areas of learning and Characteristics of Effective Learning (9 pages).

A proforma for Reception parents to complete prior to data submission for Early Learning Goals. This helps to support your judgments and show parental involvement in the child's learning. There are ELG statements and some explanations of the sort of evidence that would be useful (where appropriate). You could delete the boxes for which the setting already has sufficient evidence to make it less weighty for parents/carers to complete.

A transition proforma for schools to use when children are moving into Reception from an external nursery.

A script and staging ideas for a simple assembly or church service for Reception/KS1 children retelling the story of Noah's Ark.