Weekly planning sheet 2017/2018

Week Number / Week 1 / Week 2 / Week 3 / Week 4
Week Commencing / 04/09/17 / 11/09/17 / 18/09/17 / 25/09/17
Celebration / Settling in period / Settling in period / Settling in period / ourselves
Activities / Build upon the children’s self confidence and self esteem within the setting: encouraging children to select resources independently and explore their new environmental surroundings. Learning the routine with adult support and displays. Engage in new experiences / Continue to support the new transition into the setting. Engaging in sharing activities, whilst introducing further good routine practices of the highway code and calendar time. Begin to assess the children individual preferences and capabilities in making own decisions. / Continue to support the new transition into the setting. Engaging in sharing activities, whilst introducing further good routine practices of the highway code and calendar time. Begin to assess the children individual preferences and capabilities in making own decisions. / Introduce group time.
Talk about ourselves, reinforcing positive self image by drawing and making collages pictures of ourselves and our families, talk and re-in act family routines
Week Number / Week 5 / Week 6 / Week 7 / Week 8
Week Commencing / 02/10/17 / 9/10/17 / 16/10/17 / 30/10/17
Celebration / Autumn season / Individualised learning / Diwali / Individualised learning
Activities / Create scenes of what our environmental surrounding look like in Autumn. Talking about leaves changing colour and falling to the ground. Create movements of leaves falling and the sounds using musical instruments. Make leaf printing pictures, Small world play of parks using natural resources to reinforce the autumn season / These activities are planned around the children’s interests, learning patterns and stage of development. / Listen to the story of Ram and Sita and role play using relevant props. Make diva lamps, talking about their relevance to Diwali. Observe traditional Hindu clothing and food during the festival, making and tasting relevant foods. Create rangoli patterns, using chalk, and lentils, investigating symmetry. / These activities are planned around the children’s interests, learning patterns and stage of
development.
Week Number / Week 9 / Week 10 / Week 11 / Week 12
Week Commencing / 06/11/17 / 13/11/17 / 20/11/17 / 27/11/17
Celebration / Bonfire Night / Children in need fundraising / Winter Season / Christmas
Activities / Observe sparklers, whilst talking about safety of using sparklers. Engage in creating miniature sparklers/ rockets using recyclable materials. Pretend to be sparklers and rockets using various body movements. Counting rockets blast of both forwards and backwards. Talk about experiences of fireworks. / Encourage children to dress up for children in Need, donating towards the cause. Undertake a bake-athon!! / How the seasons have changed to winter. What happens in Winter, what has changed in the environment? Experiment with ice. Create snow pictures and creative models for self expression. / Sing traditional and modern Christmas songs, using props and musical instruments to support words. Decorate the settings Christmas tree. Make Christmas decorations, such as snowflakes, baubles, stocking and Christmas hats to decorate the setting, talking about why. Create Christmas displays.
Week Number / Week 13 / Week 14 / Week 15 / Week 16
Week Commencing / 04/12/17 / 11/12/17
(3regular days, then Christmas party/concert) / 04/01/18 / 08/01/18
Celebration / Christmas / Christmas / Individualised learning / Individualised learning
Activities / Sing traditional and modern Christmas songs, using props and musical instruments to support words. Decorate the settings Christmas tree. Make Christmas decorations, such as snowflakes, baubles, stocking and Christmas hats to decorate the setting, talking about why. Create Christmas displays. / Talk about Christmas traditions and family customs. Encourage children to talk about their own experiences of Christmas and what they would like for a present. Observe Christmas of other countries and in the past, comparing how it is celebrated today. / Discuss the new year celebrations and the Christmas festivities that the children may have engaged in.
Other activities are to be planned around the children’s interests, learning patterns and stage of development. / These activities are planned around the children’s interests, learning patterns and stage of development.
Week Number / Week 17 / Week 18 / Week 19 / Week 20
Week Commencing / 15/01/18 / 22/01/18 / 29/01/18 / 05/02/18
Celebration / Individualised learning / Individualised learning / Individualised learning / Valentine’s Day/pancake day
Activities / These activities are planned around the children’s interests, learning patterns and stage of development. / These activities are planned around the children’s interests, learning patterns and stage of development / These activities are planned around the children’s interests, learning patterns and stage of development. / Talk about the people we love and how Valentine’s day is celebrated. Create hearts using colours of reds and pinks. Make valentines cards. Investigate how we can be kind to everyone around us, using the emotion books to support this further. Discuss who’s in our families and count these. Sing love songs.
Talk about pancake day and how it’s celebrated. Make pancakes weighing ingredients. Eat pancakes at snack time with selection of different fillings. Pretend to make pancakes to rhyme, Developing cognitive development to flip pancakes. Engage in imaginative role play of pretend cooking of pancakes too
Week Number / Week 21 / Week 22 / Week 23 / Week 24
Week commencing / 19/02/18 / 26/02/18 / 05/03/18 / 12/03/18
Celebration / Chinese New Year (16th February) / Individualised learning / Mothers day (11th March) / St Patricks day (17th March)
Activities / Investigate the tradition of Chinese new year, through stories and role play. Talk about the 12 animals and how they each take it in turn to have the new year named after them, how can we take turns? Create animal masks for role play. Make Chinese food and role play a traditional Chinese restaurant. Make the great wall of China using various block sizes / These activities are planned around the children’s interests, learning patterns and stage of development / Make special mother’s day gifts and cards. Talk about what we can do for our mum’s on mother’s day, i.e. hugs, tidying our rooms etc….. Make up special mother’s day songs using musical instruments. Draw pictures of our mummies and our families. / Celebrate St Patrick’s day with traditional Irish music. Make shamrock pictures. Have traditional colours of green, orange and white bricks to construct with. Have a stage with musical props and microphones for the children to make their own music. Support this with ICT equipment of cameras and torches.
Week Number / Week 25 / Week 26 / Week 27 / Week 28
Week Commencing / 19/03/18 / 26/03/18 / 16/04/18 / 23/04/18
Celebration / Spring Season / Easter celebrations (1st April) / Individualised learning / St Georges day (23rd April)
Activities / Begin to plant flowers, plants, vegetables, fruits for the settings garden. Tidying the outside environment, making creature dens using recyclable resources (i.e. old plant pots). Observe a caterpillar turning into a butterfly, using books to support the spring season of growth. Make pretend flowers and spring clean in the role play area. / Make Easter baskets, bonnets, bunnies and Chicks to celebrate Easter. Talk about chocolate eggs, what eggs do the children like the best? Make Easter cards to give to family and friends. Hide both paper and chocolate eggs for Easter egg hunts! / These activities are planned around the children’s interests, learning patterns and stage of development. / Celebrate St George’s day with old English music and instruments. Make St Georges day flags. Use miniature figurines of soldiers and people with dragons. Create large models of dragons using junk modelling materials.
Week Number / Week 29 / Week 30 / Week 31 / Week 32
Week Commencing / 30/04/18 / 08/05/18 / 14/05/18 / 21/05/18
Celebration / May day Celebrations (01/05/12) / Individualised learning / Sponsored event / Individualised learning
Activities / Dance around the may pole, using gross motor movements. Using bells to support the song in and out the dusty blue bells. Look at traditional Morris dancers and replica their actions. Create miniature may pole to share with family members the experience of the maypole dance. / These activities are planned around the children’s interests, learning patterns and stage of development. / Carry Out sponsored event throughout the week, ensuring each child has an equal turn with adult interactions being of a high ratio. Allow children to contribute to the sponsored event by discussing what new equipment / resources should be purchased. / These activities are planned around the children’s interests, learning patterns and stage of development.
Week Number / Week 33 / Week 34 / Week 35 / Week 36
Week Commencing / 04/06/17 / 11/06/18 / 18/06/18 / 25/06/18
Celebration / Yearly outing / father’s day (17th June) / Summer Season / Holidays
Activities / Create pictures of farm animals using stencils and tracing as well as pictures. Small world play of the farm. Dress up using traditional farming attire. Create display board of farm animals using various arts and crafts materials ad activities. Pretend to be farm animals making noises and actions to replica them. Visit the farm. / Make father’s day gifts and cards, talking about why our dad’s are special. Discuss how we can show our Dads that we love them. / Talk about the Summer season, growth of plants, the changes in the weather. Investigate how to keep ourselves safe in the sun and what we should wear. Explore what activities can be done in the summer time, like going to the beach, going on holidays or day trips out with the family. What do they like doing with their family? / Talk about our own holidays and how we got there, exploring different modes of transport. Discuss where we slept and who we went on holiday with. Understanding how people have different experiences. Talk about packing and pretend to go on a nursery holiday, what would we all need. Sing the wheels on the bus and travel there!
Week Number / Week 37 / Week 38 / Week 39 / Week 40
Week Commencing / 02/07/18 / 09/07/18 / 16/07/18 / 23/07/18
Celebration / Transition into school / Transition into school / Sports day (20th July) – last day of the academic year / Stay and play visit sessions for new children
Activities / Visit on-site school, welcome visitors from neighbouring schools. Talk about emotions of future school and what the children look forward to or apprehensive about. Role play school class rooms. Play teachers, using rule, stencils and story times / Continue visits to on-site school and visitors from neighbouring school. Make 3d models of future schools. Create maps exploring the various ways the children will travel to their new schools. Investigate ways to make new friends. / Practice sports day races observing what happens to our bodies when they are active. Small world play of sporting events. Engage in various sporting activities including obstacle courses, stilts and bouncers. / Visit dates;
23/07/18
24/07/18

These plans are a basic outline of the celebrations and events activities that are likely to be implemented on a weekly basis. These are adaptable to meet the individual needs of each child, their learning and development, alongside their learning journey and unique stories which inform the settings combined planning.