FOUNDATION STAGE CURRICULUM MAP
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Autumn 1
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Autumn 2
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Spring 1
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Spring 2
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Summer 1
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Summer 2
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ME & MY WORLD
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LIGHT & NIGHT
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PEOPLE & PLACES
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GROWING & CHANGING
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OUT & ABOUT
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SEA & SAND
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Communication & Language
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All about me booklet
Senses walk
Fruit and vegetable tasting
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Expressing ideas and feelings in different ways
Exploring and describing senses
Keeping safe
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Compare similarities and differences of places, people and through time
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Talking about the natural world and lifecycles
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Comparing environments, planning routes and transport
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Discussing our own experiences and those of others
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Physical Development
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Gym: Use of space
Outdoor games: parachute games
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Dance: EDT
Outdoor games: Focus on using beanbags
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Yoga
Outdoor games: Focus on using a ball
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Gym – circuits
Outdoor games: Focus on using hoops & quoits
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Swimming
Outdoor games: Ball Skills (Jack & Chris)
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Swimming
Outdoor games: Focus on using Ropes, Bats & Balls
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Personal, Social & Emotional Development
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Class rules
Feelings – photos/music/what makes us happy
Fruit and vegetable tasting
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Friendships
Exploring senses and feelings at night
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Healthy habits – eating, screen time, tooth brushing, sleeping
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How we grow and change
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Exploring lives of people around them and in society.
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Looking forward to Year 1
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Literacy
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Phonics – Little Wandle
Name writing and letters
Book corner
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Phonics – Little Wandle
Owl writing
Labelling nocturnal animals
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Phonics – Little Wandle
Stories from other cultures
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Phonics – Little Wandle
Role playing characters in narratives and stories
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Phonics – Little Wandle
Write and post a letter
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Phonics – Little Wandle
Sea creature facts
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Maths
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Getting to Know you
Key times of the day
Explore continuous provision
Positional language
Just like me!
Match and sort
Compare amounts
Compare size, mass & capacity
Explore pattern
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It’s me 1,2,3!
Representing, comparing and composition of 1,2 & 3
Circles and Triangles
Positional Language
Light and Dark
Representing numbers to 5
One more and less
Shapes with 4 side
Time
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Alive in 5!
Introducing zero
Comparing numbers to 5
Composition of 4 & 5
Compare mass and capacity
Growing 6,7,8
Combining 2 amounts
Making Pairs
Length & Height
Time
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Building 9 and 10
Counting to 9 & 10
Comparing numbers to 10
Bonds to 10
3D shapes
Spatial awareness
Patterns
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To 20 and Beyond
Building numbers beyond 10
Counting patterns beyond 10
Spatial reasoning
Match, rotate, manipulate
First, then, now
Adding more
Taking away
Spatial reasoning
Compose and decompose
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Find my pattern
Doubling
Sharing & Grouping
Odd & Even
Spatial reasoning
Visualise and build
On the move
Deeping understanding
Patterns & Relationships
Spatial reasoning
Mapping
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Understanding the World
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Homes here and around the world
People who help us at school
Looking after pets
Healthy eating plates
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Exploring Diwali
Reflective materials & road safety
Nocturnal Animals
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Explore maps and globes
Greetings in different languages
Freezing and Melting
Ways into history – toys and games, houses and homes
Special places in the community
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Spring walk
Growing sunflowers
Exploring Holi
Life cycles
Observing chicks, caterpillars & tadpoles
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Exploring the natural environment
Tree names – plant a tree
Minibeast hunt
Maps and mapping
Walk to school survey
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Sun safety
Water safety
Comparing holidays
Floating and sinking
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Expressive arts & design
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Violins
Coloured handprints
Portraits – self & family
Make a pet rock
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Fireworks pictures
Diva lamps
Movement to music
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African drumming
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Singing a range of well know rhymes and songs
Stained glass bubbles (with buddies)
Exploring Van Gogh’s sunflowers
Symmetry painting
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Bark rubbing
Make your own town
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Build a lighthouse
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OTHER
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Baseline assessments
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Christmas Production
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Vicar visit
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Nurse/Midwife visit
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Visit to Church
Visit to Woods
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Role play
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Home
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Camping
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Travel agent
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Baby/nursery changing station
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Supermarket/post office
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Ice cream shop
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Information on the Early Years Foundation Stage Framework can be found here