1. Curriculum Overview Nursery 2018/19
Communication and language
Personal, social and emotional
Physical development
Listen to others
Follow instructions
Develop language through play
Learn to answer to what, who and where questions
Respond to what others say or do
Settling into nursery routines
Making friends
All about Me – likes and dislikes
Memories – when I was a baby
My favourite things
Explore ways to move my body
Dressing and undressing skills
Toileting and hand washing
Understanding of the world
Birthday memories
All about ME
Autumn
Celebrations – Harvest,Diwali, St Nicholas Day, Christmas
Light and dark
Colour and light
Mathematics
Autumn term
Counting objects 1:1
Sorting and matching
Shapes
Colours
I am Special – Memories
Harvest / Autumn
Festivals of Light
Literacy
Visits, visitors and experiences
Phase 1 Environmental and instrumental sounds
Introduce Phase 2 (after HT)
A variety of books topic related (Elfa and the box of memories, The Little Red Hen, Elmer, Owl Babies)
Explore mark making
Expressive arts and design
St Peter’s church – Harvest Festival
Apple orchard – Mill Lane
Autumn walk
Role play – home corner / Santa’s workshop
Autumn Festivals – colour/ combining different mediums
Sing familiar and new topic related signs – nursery rhymes