Connecting Learning in the Foundation Stage

1. Revised Curriculum Professional Development Programme Year 2 Day 4 Connecting Learning in the Foundation Stage

2. Aims Within the context of ‘The Arts’ & ‘Numeracy’: • Explore the holistic nature of the Foundation Stage Curriculum • Raise awareness of ‘The Arts’ as an area of learning. • To provide guidance on connecting learning in the context of Numeracy • Consider how children’s learning is enhanced through effective planning

3. Programme 9.30Welcome; introduction 9.40 Reflection on Year 2 children 10.00 Overview of ‘The Arts’ 11.00 BREAK 11.30 ‘The Arts’ workshop 12.15 Planning 1.00 LUNCH 2.00 Connecting Learning in the Context of Numeracy 3.00 Plenary and The Way Forward

4. Reflection on the impact of the curriculum on Year 2 Children

5. The learning environment • Classroom organisation/routines • Literacy/Numeracy practices • Play-based learning • Transition from Yr 1/parental involvement • Empowerment of children as independent learners

6. The Arts Art and Design Drama Music

7. Art and Design • Observe and respond to things seen, handled remembered and imagined

8. Investigate and talk about colours, lines, shapes, textures and patterns

9. Look at and respond to a piece of work by artists, designers, illustrators or craft workers Andy Goldsworthy Andy Goldsworthy creates art from nature. His art is temporary and created outdoors, if the wind blows it away,he starts over again.He works with leaves, rocks, seasons, cycles, snow, ice, sticks, and organic materials.

10. Explore and use a wide range of materials and processes

11. Create and develop ideas using colours, lines, shapes textures and patterns

12. Talk about own and other pupils’ work and how the work was made

13. Music • Work creatively with sound

14. Sing and perform with simple instruments

15. Listen and respond to their own and others’ music-making

16. Drama • Express their thoughts, ideas and feelings

17. Develop their creativity through imaginative play

18. Engage in dramatic play to extend the learning

19. Take part in a range of drama games and strategies

20. Drama DVD Jack and the Beanstalk

21. www.nicurriculum.org.uk

22. Coffee COFFEE

23. Workshops

24. Van Gogh’s Starry Night

25. ‘The Starry Night’ byVincent Van Gogh

26. ‘Starry Night’ byVincent Van Gogh

27. Birth of a Star http://map.gsfc.nasa.gov/m_uni/uni_101stars.html

28. White Dwarf library.thinkquest.org/ 17940/texts/star/star.html

29. Supernova library.thinkquest.org/ 17940/texts/star/star.html

30. It Happens at Night by Maureen Warner

31. The Magic Bed

32. Planning Points to consider: • Assessment for Learning emphasis • Plan within the six areas of learning (& RE) • Review and modify as appropriate • No one single approach to planning in the Foundation Stage • Avoid unnecessary repetition in long, medium and short term planning • Flexibility is the key!

33. Medium and Short Term PlanningExemplar

34. Making connections Planning workshop

35. Lunch

36. Connecting the Learning Numeracy workshop

37. Key Messages • Although areas of learning are set out separately teachers should integrate learning to enable children to make appropriate connections • Planning should be collaborative holistic child focused and informed by observations of learning. • The planning should impact on the children’s learning. • There should be a continued emphasis on literacy and numeracy