Foundation Stage
Please read with your child at least 5 times per week and record the title, progress, and additional comments in their green reading record book.
Autumn 1
Pals in the Park
The Rescue Party - A Percy The Park Keeper story read by Nick Butterworth
Nick Butterworth reads his classic story "The Rescue Party". It is a perfect day for doing nothing and Percy the park keeper is having a day off. But Percy's peaceful picnic is disturbed when a little rabbit takes an unexpected tumble and needs help...
Pals in the Park Parent Overview
Autumn 2
The Jolly Postman
TThe project will begin with the cohort finding a video of a Postman’, he is poorly and needs their help to help him deliver some letters. Each week a page from the ‘Jolly Postman’ will be read where the children will meet the character; the character will have a problem which the children need to help them overcome. Several adult led and enhanced activities will be planned for the children to experience, with a focus upon engaging pupils and developing their mark- making.
The Jolly Postman Parent Overview
Spring 1
Do You Think They Saurus?
The project will begin with a hook in which the children will go on a walk and find a giant egg with dinosaur foot prints around it. What type of egg is it? How did it get there? The children will generate some unanswered, awe and wonder questions which will shape the project. Everyday we will enhance areas based upon the interests of the children.
Do You Think They Saurus Parent Key Vocab
Do You Think They Saurus Parent Overview
Spring 2
Once Upon a Time
The children will become immersed in the traditional tales: The Ugly Duckling, Elves and the Shoemaker, The Hare and the Tortoise. The children will have the opportunity to meet some of the main characters, empathise with their feelings and confidently act out and retell the story using a Pie Corbett approach.
Once Upon a Time Parent Overview
Duck Egg Information
Summer 1
Amazing Animals
The children will arrive to school to find a small world farm set up and the story ‘What the ladybird heard’.
The children will write facts and create animal descriptions, create posters about the different habitats and a wanted poster for the criminals in the story of ‘What the Ladybird Heard’ The children will explore maps and begin to think about different animals that live in different countries, they will look at the climate of the countries. In order to consolidate learning the children will draw their own maps planning a route to catch the criminals in the story. The children will learn about the different habitats ocean, woodland, forest and safari and the animals that live in these habitats through different Julia Donaldson stories.
Amazing Animals Key Vocabulary
Summer 2
Once Upon a Time
After finding a hair piece, a pea and thread and needle on the playground we will pose the following question: Where do these objects come from? What stories could these link too? This will act as a cross-curricular starting point for Knowledge and Understanding the World in which children will grow vegetables and plants in the outdoor area. The children will become immersed in the traditional tales: Rupunzel, Princess and the Pea and Rumpelstiltskin. The children will have the opportunity to meet some of the main characters, empathise with their feelings and confidently act out and retell the story using a Pie Corbett approach.
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