EYFS Topic Rolling Programme
Autumn Term / Spring Term / Summer Term / P.E.EYFS / Year A / Families and Festivals
Family members (Visiting babies / grandparents, our past photos, role-play baby clinic. Drawing ourselves. Taking photos of our friends); Autumn objects and Windy weather
(Autumn walk. Dancing with leaves to music. Creating leaf prints, collages and rubbings. Listening to Autumn poems. Recognising, sequencing and comparing numbers on clothes hanging on a washing line); Harvest, farm produce and bread making (Acting out the story of Rosie’s Walk, using positional language. Weighing ingredients to make bread. Recalling and sequencing the story of Little Red Hen. Investigating different types of bread. Discussing the story of “Farmer duck”, talking about the importance of all having helpful hands. Working with money, in the Bakers’ shop. Also discussing what we get from farms). / 1st half term – Toys and Bears
Old and new bears, Teddy bears and bedtime,Goldilocks and the three bears, “This is the Bear…” rhyming stories, and Teddy Bear’s Picnic. “Kipper’s Toybox” story. Travelling toys, push and pull, gears. Toys now and then (toy shops).
2nd half term – Traditional and Classical Tales
Stories: “The Elves & the Shoemaker” (shoe making, role-play shoe shop, sewing, letter writing to elves); “The Tiger who came for tea” (role-play cafe, writing invitations to tiger’s tea party); “The Gingerbread Man” (baking, storyboard); “The Gruffalo” (rhyme and den making). / 1st half term – Animals
Pets and vets; Wild animals (“Dear Zoo” story – letter writing, role-play zoo, clocks – feeding times, patterns and endangered species, captivity versus wild); Farm animals (old McDonald, farm produce & shop, scarecrow making); Dinosaurs (role-play excavation site, skeletons, fossil exploring and making, and large model making).
2nd half term – Gardens
Ponds (pond dipping and observing the frog life cycle); mini-beasts (nurturing our class caterpillars into butterflies and looking at the “snail” artwork of Henri Matisse); Sunflowers (planting seeds, naming parts of a flower and recreating Van Gough’s “Sunflowers”); Fruit (Naming & tasting exotic fruit / making fruit crumble / fruit salad & working in role-play fruit shop with weighing scales and real money); Environments (Woodwork – making pretty maids for Mary Mary Quite Contrary’s garden, naming, matching and sorting 2D & 3D shapes for recycling. Discussing the importance of compost bins & water butts). / -Fire dance
-Birthday dance
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-Using tools
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-Small equipment
-Throwing and catching
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-Circle Games
-Role-play
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-Spatial-awareness
-Large apparatus
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-Drama
-Gymnastics
EYFS / Year B / Journeys and Wheels
Holidays(Writing holiday tickets, sorting transport by colour / type and using a computer mouse to dress a teddy for holidays in different climates); Autumn, Wind and balloons (blow paintings, dancing with leaves / balloons to music. Autumn walk, counting conkers, maps and releasing hot air balloons); Harvest (Making bread, role-play farm shop, rolling tractor tyres in paint and printing, thanking God for the harvest and comparing our country and cultures to others ). / 1st half term – Nursery Rhymes
Incey Wincey Spider (Freezing and melting, being weather forecasters, counting on, when playing spider games, Colour mixing with paint powder in puddles;); Nursery rhymes with hills and walls: Jack and Jill, The Grand Old Duke of York and Humpty Dumpty. Story of “Little Lumpty” (drama and movement as soldiers, making bricks from clay, sand and sawdust, wall building, role-play building site, investigating how to mend a hole in Jill’s bucket, naming body parts and medical equipment in role play Jack’s doctors surgery and finding out about capacity in the water tray).
2nd half – term – Myself
Healthy eating (role-play fruit shop, making fruit salad and smoothies);Feelings (photo book making on emotions, family love “Joseph’s wonderful coat”);Growing up (sequencing pictures / our photos in age order. Visiting babies, toddlers and elderly people); Our bodies (skeletons and “Funnybones” story). / 1st half term – Mini-beasts
Investigating: ladybirds (time- “The bad tempered ladybird”, adding spots); worms, slugs and snails (creating own version of Jackson Pollock’s “The Snail”, snail trails, measuring and comparing lengths of worms and making a wormery, “Sam’s sandwich” story); caterpillars and butterflies (lifecycles, visiting Butterfly World, “Hungry caterpillar” role-play café, symmetry); bees and wasps. Ugly bug ball.
2nd half term – Food and Shops
Different types of shops, (money recognition, writing shopping lists, making shopping bags); teddy bear’s picnic, “The Lighthouse keeper’s lunch” (pulleys, bulbs and circuits, basket weaving); healthy breakfast and “The three bears” (porridge making, acting out story, measuring and sorting by size); different types of food around the world. / -Transport games
-Movement games
-Journeys around school
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-Apparatus
-Threading cards
-Dancing
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-Building blocks
-Acting out nursery characters
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-Gardening tools
-Ball skills
-Bean game
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-Planting veg
-Bear Hunt
-Movement
EYFS / Year C / 1st half term – Homes and Buildings
Homes for people and animals (our homes, addresses and telephone numbers, homes now and then, role-play Estate Agents, nests and burrow making); Building Sites and different Buildings ( St Francis the builder, Humpty Dumpty, famous buildings, castles, visit building site and sales office); “The three little pigs” and “Once Upon a time” stories (puppets, making and testing houses from different materials, the wind, role – play houses from story).
2nd half term – Changes
Autumn & Seasons; Day & Night / Light & Dark (Diwali); Wind & Balloons; Percy the Park-keeper Story books; Growth & beans; The Nativity; and Santa’s Journey / 1st half term – Water and Bridges
Ice, snow and polar regions; The Three Billy goats gruff, bridges around the world, designing, making and testing bridges and creating own versions of Monet’s “Bridge of Giverny”; The sea (painting to music and exploring sea creatures); Noah’s Ark (rain and rainbows, arc building, music making and counting animals in twos).
2nd half term – Authors
“Elmer the elephant” stories by David McKee, “Dear Zoo”, “Oh Dear!”, “Noisy Farm”& ABC, 123 books by Rod Campbell, “We’re going on a Bear Hunt” by Helen Oxenbury. Stories on the Large family by Jill Murphy and “Thomas the Tank Engine” stories by Rev Awdry. / People Who Help Us
Lots of visits and visitors to stimulate role-play and broaden knowledge on:
Doctors Surgery, Hospitals & Ambulances; Opticians and Dentists; Postal Workers & Refuge Collectors. School Staff, Police Officers, Fire-Fighters & Travel Agents. / -Transport movement
-Animal dance
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-Leaf dance
-Balloon dance
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-Movement / drama
-Noah’s Ark dance
-Snowman dance
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-Spatial Awareness
-Shape of body
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-Movement
-Using tools
-Small apparatus
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-Fine motor control
-Gross motor skills
-Games