Foundation
F2 Medium Term Plan and Overview– Spring 2
Come Outside / Down with the Dinos!
Our first 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.
- 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 focussed 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
Our second theme will be Down with the Dinos and we will cover many activities and challenges that will excite the children in all areas of the Foundation Stage Curriculum. This theme will be based on children’s interests as we have a few members of our year group that would love to be palaeontologists when they grow it!! We have lots of exciting things planned which will hopefully leave the children gripped as well as learning lots about different types of dinosaurs, extinction and fossils. Again we will have various focussed texts which we will read regularly to the children and lots of activities and challenged will be planned based on these books.
- How to catch a dinosaur
- 10 naughty dinosaurs
- Dear Dinosaur
- 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.
Foundation 2 Curriculum overview Spring 1
Terrific Tales and terrific jobs
Our first theme this half term will be Terrific Jobs and through this we will discuss 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 three
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
When I grow up – Jon Hales
Our second theme will be Terrific Tales and we will cover many activities and challenges that will
excite the children in all areas of the Foundation Stage Curriculum. For example, will have our
very own ‘castle’ 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 topic. This topic 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 also 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.