A medium term plan for a year one science unit focusing on plants.

Year 1 Challenge Passport for continuous provision activities. I also use this for reception but adapt the reception writing and maths activities to be more accessible for them.

Activities linked to the traditional tale, The Gingerbread Man aimed at a mixed reception and year one class.

Activities linked to the fabulous book ‘Ada Twist, Scientist.’ Aimed at a year one class but could easily be adapted for reception and year two.

A timetable for a reception class in autumn one term showing how we structure our week.

Challenges set out in continuous provision for a mixed reception and year one class.

This is the planning sheet that I give to my TA to support teaching phonics. It ensures that there is consistency across all groups as we follow the same format, no matter who is teaching.

A list of all the ELGs split into the 7 areas of learning.

Year 1 Challenge Passport for continuous provision activities. I also use this for reception but adapt the reception writing and maths activities to be more accessible for them.

A matching game for CVC words.

Medium term planning for 7 lessons looking at identifying, classifying and experimenting with different materials.

STEM challenge activity to add a bit of fun to the ‘everyday materials’ topic in year one science.

An activity to help children practise the sound ‘m’

Geography medium term plan focusing on our school and immediate environment over 5 lessons.

An activity to practise recognising the sound ‘d’

The first week of term for us is only 2 days long, so rather than do an entire plan for this, I have just done a brief overview linking to the story ‘Room on the Broom’. This is the first book that we are going to explore using Drawing Club so seemed nice to link it all in together and immerse the children.

A baseline assessment linked to my progression document. Following checkpoints and statements from Development Matters, aged 3-4 statements. Many of these activities can be done through teacher assessment observing children in play but also through CP enhancements and play-based learning. No RBA tablet-style assessing here!

For this week we have our children part time so our plan is much more simplified. There are circle time ideas and adult-led activities to support baseline assessments through age-appropriate activities. There are also a range of continuous provision enhancements to engage children and again, hit some of your baseline assessments through play - none of that RBA iPad assessing here! Weekly Theme: Starting School Focus Book: The Colour Monster Goes to School* I know that there is some controversy regarding using the Colour Monster due to the black colour monster being associated with fear. In this version of the Colour Monster, the black colour monster only appears once. There is no reference to black representing fear but the words spooky and scary are used on the same page as the visual of the black colour monster. In our book we have coloured over him in grey paint. In the activities that we set out in class, we have removed the black monster entirely. We have chosen to continue to use this book as the children engage well with it, it approaches the subject of starting school well and promotes good conversations with our young learners.

This week our focus is still to settle the children, model the provision and get to know them! So there is NO FORMAL LEARNING planned. Here you will find some ideas for circle time and continuous provision enhancements based on the topic ‘All About Me’.

Week 4 planning for a reception class - matching my progression document. This is changed from last years planning due to new maths small steps and a change to weekly themes which we introduced mid year. We have also made changes to our enhancement planning - now only enhancing 5 areas and having 5 child-led activities out. We are bringing back more JOY!!! This pack includes an overview of the week showing when we teach, how we distribute staff, a continuous provision enhancements plan, a literacy plan, a maths plan, a maths presentation, the challenge page to match our challenge mountain and our guided reading learning. The weekly theme for this week is: Traditional Tales Focus Book: Little Red