Topic:

‘People who help

us’plus continuous provision both

indoors and outside

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: 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.

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’

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.

Reception: Term 2Main focus: Prime

areas

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.

Growing focus: Specific areas