Topics
Our monthly topics are carefully chosen, structured and sequential, growing from an examination of children’s own lives, to their communities, the natural world around them and then to the wider world. This enables children to build on prior knowledge from theme to theme.
- Term 1
- Term 2
- Term 3
September- All About Me
- Week 1- My family
- Week 2- My home
- Week 3- Where I am from
- Week 4- My body
October- 5 senses
- Week 1-Taste/Smell
- Week 2-Hearing/Seeing
- Week 3-Touch/Sight
- Week 4-The Gruffalo + I’m a little tea pot
- Week 5- Going on a Bear hunt + Mary had a little lamb
November- Stories & Nursery Rhymes
- Week 1- Jack and the Beanstalk + Humpty Dumpty
- Week 2- The very Hungry Caterpillar + Twinkle Twinkle
- Week 3- Owl Babies + Hickory Dickory Dock
- Week 4- Goldie Locks + Once I caught a fish
December- Winter
- Week 1- National Days
- Week 2- Winter festival
Winter Camp- Winter Wonderland
- Week 1- Winter Wonderland
- Week 2- Winter Wonderland
January- Animals
- Week 1- Ocean
- Week 2- Jungle/Forest
- Week 3- Desert/Snow
- Week 4- Farm/Domestic
February- Community Helpers
- Week 1- Veterinarians
- Week 2- Architects/construction
- Week 3- Shopkeepers/stores
- Week 4- Chefs/restaurants
March- Community Helpers
- Week 1- Teachers
- Week 2- Civil Defense
- Week 3- Pilots
Spring Camp- Growing
- Week 1- Plants
- Week 2- Life Cycles
April- Transportation
- Week 1- Air
- Week 2- Sea
- Week 3 Land
May- Beasts
- Week 1 hopping
- Week 2 crawling
- Week 3 flying
- Week 4 slithering
- Week 5 Dinosaurs
June- Space
- Week 1- Planets
- Week 2- Planets
- Week 3- Day and night
- Week 4- Summer
Summer Camp- Around the World
- Week 1- Mexico
- Week 2- Brazil
- Week 3- France
- Week 4- Egypt
- Week 5- South Africa
- Week 6- India
- Week 7- China
- Week 8- Japan
- Week 9- Australia
- Week 10- Antartica