6 weeks of planning and resources for an “All About Me” topic, suitable for a Reception class. Based on the 2021 EYFS Development Matters document. The topic is broken up in to 6 themes: Week 1 - What Makes Me Special? Week 2 - My Body Week 3 - My Senses Week 4 - My Feelings Week 5 - Growing and Changing Week 6 - My Home and Local Area Each week has detailed planning for adult led sessions for the 7 areas of learning. There are 48 session plans altogether. Each week also has ideas for enhancing the continuous provision across 10 areas of the learning environment, with over 200 ideas in total. Where needed, resources to support these activities are included in the pack. There are also 6 weekly newsletters included. These can be used to let parents/carers know what their child is learning and to suggest ideas that they may want to try at home. The planning documents and newsletters are Word documents and can be edited. The supporting resources are PDF files and cannot be edited.

Get your class thinking and talking every morning with 200 fun challenges! Simply put up a slide from the PowerPoint show each day, ready for the children to look at as they come in to the classroom. Ask the children to use their imaginations, tackle design challenges and consider the properties of different materials. Example questions: Imagine that you have found a magic ticket. What could you use it for? How many things can you think of that are spotty? Can you design a new kit for a football player? Who do you think each pair of shoes belongs to? Make a list of things that roll. Younger children could draw pictures to show their ideas while older children can write lists and sentences. Also included is a grid showing the key learning objectives that will be covered for each year group. The Year 1 and 2 objectives are taken from the 2014 National Curriculum.

Everything you need to deliver all 6 weeks of Letters and Sounds Phase Two. This resource includes a fully editable planning document. It is supported by 30 PowerPoint sessions, ready for you to use each day. Each one follows the recap, teach, practise and apply sequence as recommended in Letters and Sounds. There is a handy leaflet for parents that you can send home to encourage parental support. There are printable activities and display materials to support what is taught in the lessons. Also included is a PowerPoint of assessment activities and Word grids to record the children’s achievements. The PowerPoints use the Comic Sans font, except for the handwriting sections which are in Sassoon. Most other resources are also in Sassoon.

Everything you need to deliver all 10 weeks of Letters and Sounds Phase Three. This resource includes a fully editable planning document. It is supported by 50 PowerPoint sessions, ready for you to use each day. Each one follows the recap, teach, practise and apply sequence as recommended in Letters and Sounds. There is a handy leaflet for parents that you can send home to encourage parental support. There are printable activities and display materials to support what is taught in the lessons. Also included is a PowerPoint of assessment activities and Word grids to record the children’s achievements. The PowerPoints use the Comic Sans font, except for the handwriting sections which are in Sassoon. Most other resources are also in Sassoon.

Get playful this festive season with resources for 24 Christmas themed activities. Perfect to use for a visiting elf, classroom provision or to encourage play at home. Simply print off the printable resources and set up each activity using loose parts, craft materials, playdough or mark making materials. If you have a elf for the month of December, there are ideas for what the elves could have been up to each night and an activity for each day until Christmas Eve. The pack includes a Christmas Coundown, card for the children to mark off when they have completed an activity and a certificate to use on the last day. Alternatively the resources could be used to set up classroom provision or to spark new ideas for play at home. Carefully designed by an experienced Early Years teacher. All files are pdfs.

A great collection of planning and resources for 20 activities around the theme of “Superheroes”. This theme covers the 7 areas of learning in the EYFS through playful activities that your children will be excited to get stuck into. Great for preschool settings, childminders and parents looking to support their child’s learning at home. Carefully designed by an experienced Early Years teacher. All files are pdfs.

A great collection of 20 activities around the theme of “Birthdays”. The planning overview shows how the activities support the EYFS Development Matters curriculum for 3-4 year olds. They would be suitable for preschool settings, childminders and parents looking to support their child’s learning at home. Carefully designed by an experienced Early Years teacher. All files are pdfs.

12 fun activities to help children who are learning to recognise the letters (graphemes) that are taught in Phase 2 of phonics schemes based on Letters and Sounds - s, a, t, p, i, n, m, d, g, o, c, k, ck, e, u, r, h, b, f, ff, l, ll, ss. There are 52 pages of attractive resources with a rainbows and unicorns theme. These include classic games like bingo and tic-tac-toe, active games like target throw and grapheme hunt and imaginative games like toy rescue and pretend school. The activities are designed to be exciting and quick to play to allow for short bursts of practice. Carefully designed by an experienced Early Years teacher. All files are pdfs.