F2 Medium Term Plan and Overview– Spring 1
Terrific Tales and terrific jobs
We are going to be very busy this half term with lots of learning and exciting themes. Our first theme will be Terrific jobs looking at important people who help us. This will allow us to also have a little introduction to gender equality. For example, who can be a vet, a nurse, a farmer, fire officer etc? We will have discussions about children’s thoughts but then make sure that children understand that it does not matter what our gender is, if we want to be something and set our minds to it then we can achieve whatever we want to achieve. We will also look at two very famous women Mary Seacole and Florence Nightingale and discuss why these two women are still remembered today.
During this theme we will have lots of opportunities to role play both in the classroom and outside, we will have a fire station, vets, doctors and post office. We will be having many discussions about job roles and how their job roles help us and why they are so important. We will have two focussed texts which we will read regularly to the children and lots of activities and challenged will be planned based on these books.
- A real superhero like you – Dr Ranj
- Real superheroes, a celebration of key workers – Julia Seal
Our second theme will be Terrific tales where we will have the chance to immerse ourselves into a range of Fairy tales and we will cover many activities and challenges that will excite the children in all areas of the Foundation Stage Curriculum. For example, we will have our very own ‘Fairy tale Palace’ in the school role play for the children to explore, use their imagination and investigate. Our investigation station will be set up as a potions lab for the children to use their Witch or Wizardry skills write recipes, mix potions and tell stories. In the outdoor classroom children will be using our ‘large scale construction’ to build things linked to this theme. This theme will also allow us to plan through the children’s interests and we will cover many areas of learning such as literacy learning about traditional tales and thinking to story openers, characters and storylines or history links by looking at castles, kings and queens. We will also teach children about social justice during this theme, for example, was Cinderella treated fairly? Did Jack have the right to steal from the giant? Did Goldilocks behave appropriately?
Again there will be a big focus on communication and language – specifically developing storytelling and narrative.
A main priority is still to ensure the children continue to be happy and settled in school and show our school values on a daily basis. We constantly revisit and review our school values and how they link to expectations and behaviour in school.
There will be links Chinese New Year and a range of activities will be set up to teach children about why some people celebrate this special occasion.
We cover so much week in week out that it is very difficult to mention every area or objective for all of our areas learning. Therefore, Miss Cotterell and Mrs Neal will keep you updated weekly via TAPESTRY with specific details of what we have been focusing on in our classroom for maths, literacy, phonics, understanding the world, expressive arts and design or RE etc so that you know what you can work on with your child at home.
F2 Medium Term Plan and Overview– Spring 2
Up up up in space / Come outside!
We will be kick starting the start of this half term with a theme based on the children’s interests as we have a few members of our year group that would love to be astronauts when they grow up!! We will be taking a visit in to Space and have lots of exciting things planned which will hopefully leave the children gripped as well as learning lots about the different planets and the solar system. As always, we will have various focused texts which we will read regularly to the children and lots of activities and challenged will be planned based on these books.
- Whatever next
- Look up
- The way back home
- Non fiction texts linked
Our second theme will be Come Outside! With the weather hopefully changing we will look at the changes between Winter and Spring and this will lead us in many directions giving us the opportunities to look at:
- the growth of plants and flowers / life cycle
- planting of seeds and watching the changes that take place plus making predictions on what we think will happen – also linked to the continued growth of the children’s beans from the previous half term
- looking at our local environment and observing the changes in weather / seasons
- new life linked to animals and plants
- lifecycles of caterpillars, frogs and chicks
- on the farm – what will farm life be like during the spring time, what might we see?
During this theme we will have lots of opportunities to role play both in the classroom and outside, we will have a farm shop and garden centre for the children to explore. Our investigation station will be bursting with opportunities for the children to observe, discuss, predict and share their thoughts and opinions, we may even have our very own class caterpillars to look after! We will have various focused texts which we will read regularly to the children and lots of activities and challenged will be planned based on these books.
- The Tiny Seed
- Rosie’s Walk
- Rooster around the world
- The little red hen
- The very hungry caterpillar
- Non fiction texts linked
We will also be spending time thinking about Easter and the meaning of Easter to Christians. We will still constantly revisit and review our school values and how they link to expectations and behaviour in school.
We cover so much week in week out that it is very difficult to mention every area or objective for all of our areas learning. Therefore, Miss Cotterell and Mrs Neal will keep you updated weekly via TAPESTRY with specific details of what we have been focusing on in our classroom for maths, literacy, phonics, understanding the world, expressive arts and design or RE etc so that you know what you can work on with your child at home.
