Prime areas

1. Personal, social and emotional development

• Settling in

• Following rules

• All about me - getting to know you

• Talking about our feelings and special times

• Helping each other

• Showing confidence to try new things

• Forming good relationships with peers and adults

• Changing me and transition to reception

• "I can" theme

• Relationships and friendships

2. Physical development

• Using our outside play equipment safely - balancing and climbing

• Fine motor skill development for early mark making

• Using scissors

• Handling play dough

• Threading, small constructions, fine collage

• Gross motor skills - coordination, balance and spatial awareness

• Developing fine motor skills for pencil control - forming recognisable letter shapes for our name

• Practising correct letter formation and orientation

• Finding different ways to move and travel

• Exploring spaces and balance

3. Communication and language

• Introduction to books

• Recognising our names

• Early introduction to phonics

• Developing speaking and listening skills

• Securing the first 31 sounds in RWInc (phonics)

• Recognising and writing our names

• Reciting nursery rhymes and poems

• Talking about things that we have observed

• Beginning to record in pictures and words (labelling)

• Taking about change and how we feel

Specific areas

4. Literacy

Talking about fiction and non-fiction books, poems, rhymes, singing songs.

Mark making and looking at print in the environment

Introduction to phonic in preparation for reading

5. Mathematics

• Saying number in order to 10

• Beginning to learn strategies for counting - practising 1:1 correspondence

• Beginning to use language of comparison e.g., size, shape

• Talking about the shapes of everyday things

• Beginning to name 2D shapes

• Subitizing - recognising how many without counting

• Counting sets of objects to 10

• Counting sets of objects and counting them all

6. Expressive art and design

• Art - Exploring different media and techniques

• Design - Constructing with a range of materials and resources

• Music - Nursery rhymes, songs, poems and action rhymes

• Colour mixing

• Patterns and texture

• Using different media

• Observational drawing

7. Understanding the world

• Exploring our environment

• Noticing seasonal changes

• Celebrations of light - what do we celebrate? How do we celebrate?

• Times of celebration with family

• Celebrations such as Chinese New Year

• Life cycles including observing he metamorphosi of caterpillars to butterflies

• Planting and growing

• Minibeasts

• Exploring using all of our sense

• Journeys and travel - different ways of moving and travelling