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Medium Term Planning

This planning is for a main focus or theme which shows the objectives in all six curriculum areas – Personal Social and Emotional development, Communication Language and Literacy, Knowledge and Understanding of the World, Physical Education, Problem solving, Reasoning and Numeracy (Maths) and Creative Development. 

This main theme can last for up to 6 weeks or more but depends on the children's interest. There may also be more emphasis on a particular curriculum area, so it is important to observe the children and pick up their interests. For the purposes of the new Early Years Foundation Stage you can look in the Guidance and identify any particular objectives which are relevant to the development stages of the group and add these to the sheet if necessary.

Enhancements

It is useful to make a display which helps staff, parents, and children to explore the main focus of the medium term plan. You can also set up an interactive display and have a question for the day. Children and families can also be invited to bring in objects to add to the display or to show at circle time. Don't forget to add relevant books and photographs.

In the areas of provision you can adapt/change the resources in order to focus on the theme and change the role play area – for example, in winter change it into an igloo with white sheets, plastic icicles etc., with scarves, wellies and woolly hats to wear.

If you are looking at growing or plants in the Spring or Summer you can change the role play area into a garden centre, giving lots of opportunities for maths and language development. Discuss with the children and ask them for ideas to give them ownership of the areas.

Focus Activities

This planning sheet shows the main areas of learning which the activity will support. Intended learning opportunities are the objectives which you want the children to achieve through the activity. This can be when the children are learning independently but in an enhanced area or through an adult directed activity. The important thing is to interact with the children, extend their learning and challenge their thinking by discussion and exploration.

Look at the key questions which you can use during this process and emphasis key vocabulary.

Make observations which can be general or observations on individual children for their profiles. This will help you to evaluate the activity and you can then make decisions about how the activity could be improved, developed or further enhanced. Ask the children what they think.  Gather evidence in the form of observations, photographs and notes from meetings at the end of a theme/focus.
 

List of Content

Under5s Guide to the Early Years Foundation Stage

10 Long Term Plans for Areas of Provision
To print off, laminate and display in the relevant area of provision

Home Corner
Small World
Malleable Materials
Water
Mark Making Area
Small Construction
Workshop
Painting
Books
Sand 

20 sets of focus plans

Autumn
1 Medium Term Plan
6 Focus Plans – Autumn maths, autumn dancing, leaf pictures, autumn walk,
autumn books, leaf sorting

Bonfire Night
1 Medium Term Plan
1 Focus Plan – Firework Pictures

Chinese New Year
1 Medium Term Plan
8 Focus Plans – Chinese Banners, Chinese Cakes, Chinese Envelopes, Chinese
Lanterns, Chinese Lucky Envelopes, Chinese Writing, Stir Fry, Dragon Dance
1 Instructions for making Chinese Lanterns

Christmas
1 Medium Term Plan
3 Focus Plans – Christmas Decorations, Christmas Cards, Christmas Chains

Colour
1 Medium Term Plan 
8 Focus Plans – Colour Fruit and Veg, Jelly, Mixing, Sorting, Games, ICT , Story, Threading 

Dinosaurs
1 Medium Term Plan
8 Focus Plans – Dinosaur Cave, Dinosaur Counting, Dinosaur Fossils, Dinosaur
Heads, Dinosaur Painting, Dinosaur Storysack, Dinosaur World, Zig Zag Books

Diwali
1 Medium Term Plan
3 Focus Plans – Rangoli Patterns, Diva Lamps, Firework Dancing

Easter
1 Medium Term Plan
6 Focus Plans – Easter Baskets, Easter Bonnets, Easter Cards, Circle Time, Egg
Tree, Easter Nests

Eid
1 Medium Term Plan
3 Focus Plans – Eid Cards, Mosque, Mehendi Cards

Hannukah
1 Medium Term Plan
2 Focus Plans – Home Play, Hannukah Objects

Mother's Day
1 Medium Term Plan
3 Focus Plans – Mother's Day Painting, Mother's Day Buns, Mothers Day Print

Ourselves
1 Medium Term Plan
7 Focus Plans – Hands/Feet, Funnybones, Action Songs, Body Movements, Height, Photos, Portraits, All About Me 

Spring
1 Medium Term Plan
8 Focus Plans - Counting Seeds, Seeds in Containers, Spring Walk, Investigate
Growth, Spring Pictures, Seeds and Bulbs, Using Garden Tools Safely, Sequence
Activity

Summer
1 Medium Term Plan
8 Focus Plans – Summer Den, Summer Walk, Summer Picnic, Caterpillar Story,
Summer Painting, PSE in the Sun, Summer Measuring, Summer Fruit

Valentine's Day
1 Medium Term Plan
3 Focus Plans – Valentine's Biscuit, Valentine's Card, Valentine's PSE

Winter
2 Medium Term Plans
6 Focus Plans - Winter Cave, Find out arctic animals, Winter Pictures, Interactive
Polar, Investigating ice, Winter Tracing

Moving 
1 Medium Term Plan 
8 Focus Plans – Story, Story/Our World, Making a Vehicle, Role Play, Using Body & Equipment, Operating Equipment, Construction Sets & Counting, Songs and Rhymes 

Materials 
1 Medium Term Plan 
8 Focus Plans – Circle Time, Investigating, Rangoli Patterns, The 3 Bears, Patterns, Designing & Making, Investigating Size, ICT ; 

Water
1 Medium Term Plan 
8 Focus Plans – Counting, Floating & Sinking, Investigating Properties, Story, Story Activities, Moving to Music, Playing Outside in the Rain, Rhymes 

Living Things
1 Medium Term Plan 
8 Focus Plans – Stories, Exploring, Recording, Growing Plants & Vegetables, Trip/Visit, Healthy Foods, Comparing Sizes/Shapes, Counting/Estimating 
 
 

Free Sample Pack

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Please note that the plans are supplied in word document format in both the sample and the full pack, so that you can add to and alter the planning.

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