Early Years topic planner covering the 6 areas of learning, and suggested activities to be covered.

F2 Reception medium term plan on Beginnings, PPt presentation. Linked to Leicester City SACRE RE unit, but encompasses RE, PSED, CL, UW. Content covers New Year, religious birth customs, Chinese New Year and the Judeo-Christian creation story.

Parinirvana Day or Nirvana Day is the annual Buddhist festival that remembers the death of the Buddha when he reached Nirvana (enlightenment).

A Diwali-themed quotation from the Buddha. Encouraging teamwork, and also introduces the Hindu concept of Karma. 'If you light a lamp for somebody, it will also brighten your path.' Links in with diwa lamps and the Diwali story of Rama and Sita.

I was given this by our Early Years Support Team training on ICT as an activity. I have used with my team to focus in on levels of ICT development. From birth to 60+months. To look at the stages of ICT development and match to the appropriate age. Good for identifying whether a child is on track or not.

Adult assistance card for supporting role-play. Includes resources, suggested scenarios, vocabulary and extension idea

A word mat designed to support children's thank you writing after Christmas. Set out to mirror the VCOP board, including question words to prompt.

A step by step guide to make stained glass crosses. Will work with any other shape as well.

Step by step instructions to make a pop-up Eid-ul-Fitr card. Text and images courtesy of myramadanfun.com

Rhyming number bond to 10 posters featuring elements of Easter and the easter story.

Advent is an adventure. Designed to spark off discussion on why Christians celebrate the period of Advent

Also known as Ramnavami, Ramanavami or Ram Navami, this Hindu festival celebrates the birth of Lord Rama.

F2 Reception medium term plan on plants and animals. PPt presentation. Linked to Leicester City SACRE RE unit, but encompasses RE, PSED, CL, UW. Content covers planting seeds, why humans needs plants and animals, life cycles and Easter.

Children to each research a country playing in the Euro 2016 tournament. To complete the sheet with the name of the country they are following, the capital city and any languages spoken. Also to draw and colour the national flag, colour in where the country is on the map and colour in the country's Euro 2016 football strip.

To be used as a guided reading comprehension activity alongside Collins Big Cat book The Sun and the Moon. Focus phonemes, tricky word and speed words. Cloze activity questions. Child to draw a picture of the sun or moon and write facts in sentences/captions.

A set of statements to be cut up for children to read and sort into fact and fiction. A second set has been provided with the tricky words written in red for ease of newer readers. Also, a simple Fact or Fiction table to be enlarged to A3 for the statements to be put/stuck onto.

A word mat designed to support writing about the growth cycle of a bean. Sectioned in to Vocabulary, Connectives, Openers and Punctuation. Also contains the VCOP superheroes (thanks to Butterbeer and ilovemarmite) and on the reverse has images and labels for different common beans and a diagram of the growing cycle.

A writing frame to create an information poster on the growth cycle of a bean.

An image of an battery to be used when studying Electricity

Map to be used for a Weather presenter's role-play