Weekly Planner 3-5’s Date: Theme/Focus ©Islington Early Y ears Foundation Stage Team

Child / Tyrone / Ismail / Lizzie / Fatima / Adam / PRIME areas of learning
Interests/Needs/Schemas/CoEL / Riding bikes, playing chasing games, climbing frame / Imaginative play, role play, dressing up – transporting objects in bags from home corner / Creative workshop making stick puppets– ‘wrapping presents’ / Painting, sand, water, malleable – activities which do not require a verbal response / Playing with trains, making long train tracks. Connecting construction toys together. / PSED / Support children new to school to develop familiarity of downstairs area: small tours. Send to toilet in pairs.
Ask new parents for photos for profile books (show e.gs) and let children stick in.
C&L / Focus on developing simple story line and appropriate story language.
Provide opportunities for children to talk with adults in small groups or 1-1 with adults (Fatima)
‘Phase 1 ‘Mrs Browning has a box’
Next Steps / Draw chalk road for bikes, Tyrone to help to make road signs and numbered parking bays.
Organise small group games, e.g. basket ball, throwing catching etc / Set up new role play area, Ismail to help by ‘transporting’ resources needed for role play area. Act out favourite stories with props/dressing up clothes / Make and use puppets to retell a simple story.
Provide masking tape, paper, material to wrap things in / Encourage Fatima to join in with focus activities so that she can begin to respond to adults and children verbally. / Activities/stories about ‘Thomas the Tank’. Set up train station outside, Adam to draw a plan for the design. Explore other resources for joining.
PD / Focus on outside- set up bike track, garage area,
Set up simple collaborative games using balls and beanbags outside, pairing up new children with others. Include hoops and boxes for throwing through and in. (Tyrone)
Whole/large group activities/experiences
·  Circle time – games for getting to know each other’s names
·  Stories about starting school
·  Introduce numbers on front door activity / Notes/Evaluations of child initiated play or CoEL
All of the children really enjoyed designing the train station and liked drawing designs. Continue with this next week. Children were ‘making links’ and ‘finding out and exploring’ (CoEL) / Children to be observed
Lydia
Fran
Daniel
Benjamin
Charlotte / SPECIFIC areas of learning
Maths / Make a display of children’s house numbers ‘Can you find the number on your front door’.
Add templates (with numbers) to block area shelving unit.
Start making number plates for bikes. Draw hopscotch outside with big chalks.
Literacy / Introduce signs and labels in the role play area: find labels of children’s favourite foods. Add formats to make shopping lists.
Set up puppet show area and tell simple story using stick puppets (Lizzie)
Act out favourite stories with dressing up clothes/props (Ismail)
Special Events
Monday: Lizzy’s dad coming in on fri. p.m to play guitar
Thursday& Friday – take small groups on trips to local shops
UTW / Make maps of the downstairs area
Provide stories that help children to make sense of different environments
Take small groups for walk around local area
EA&D / Ensure workshop areas for children to express themselves creatively are set up and children know how to use them
Teach children a range of familiar songs and rhymes
Make stick puppets for puppet area
Design and draw station for train track (Adam)

Characteristics of Effective learning (CoEL)

Playing and Exploring, Active Learning, and Creating and Thinking Critically Support children’s learning across all areas