Topic: ‘People who help us’ p lus continuous provision both indoors and outside

1. Prime area: Communication and Language. • Listen carefully and follow more complicated directions. • Concentrate and resist distractions • Listen to visiting Policeman and respond appropriately. • Respond to instructions to complete a sequence of actions. • Extend vocabulary about people who help us. • Link statements to explain ideas. • Use talk to clarify thinking, ideas, feelings and events. • Use language imaginatively in play situations. • Introduce a storyline into play activities. • Communicate clearly using sentences. Main focus: Prime areas Reception: Term 2 Growing focus: Specific areas • Prime area: Personal, Social and Emotional development. • Speak confidently to others about what they know. • Talk about people who help us at home and community. • Understand how actions affect others. • Understand the need for boundaries. • Respond appropriately to changes in routines. • React to challenge from peers appropriately. • Know how to behave in different situations. • Take turns in conversations. • Explain ideas and ask questions. • Prime area: Physical development. • Move in different ways and on different levels. • Negotiate space with increasing skill. • Change speed and direction effectively. • Increase control over small equipment. • Be able to say what foods are healthy and which are not. • Attend to own personal hygiene needs and understand why doing this properly is important. • Manage undressing and dressing for PE. • Be able to show how to use things safely. Topic: ‘People who help us’ plus continuous provision both indoors and outside • Specific area: Literacy. • Phase 2 Letters & Sounds begins alongside Phase 1. • Reading scheme introduced and children begin to learn to read. • Look at books about ‘People who help us.’ • Continue practising writing names and also other letter formation. • Begin to read and write simple words using growing phonic knowledge. • Label pictures of ‘People who help us’ • Specific area: Mathematics. • Recognise numerals 1-10 and be able to put them in order. • Count objects or actions accurately. • Know how many there are after 1 more has been added or taken away. • Identify most 2d & 3d shapes. • Talk about position, size and other measures. • Make more complex patterns and sequence several events. • Specific area: Understanding the world. • Show an interest in the work of the visiting policeman. • Talk about different people who help us e.g. Doctor, Nurse etc. • Name and describe special times or events. • Ask questions about the world in which they live. • Talk about why things happen and how things work. • Show an interest in technology e.g – police radio. • Show increasing skill in making things work. • Specific area: Expressive arts and design. • Enjoy joining in with rhythmic activities. • Construct by joining objects together and describe how they work. • Use a variety of construction materials to build models. • Begin to express oneself in different ways and respond to music. • Enjoy role play and build stories around toys and experiences. • Use available resources as props to support role play. • Create simple representations of events, people and objects with increasing detail.