Early Years Foundation Stage

Assistant Headteacher EYFS

Alice Mansell

Pre-School

Spring Knowledge Organiser – 2024/2025

The latest Pre-School Learning Update!

Preschool children have been learning and exploring a lot of different activities. Children were celebrating Chinese New Year, exploring and looking at different food, languages and practising how to use chopsticks. The children were also listening to the story ‘AMAZING’ and exploring different activities linking to the story celebrating friendship, taking turns & sharing and playing together.
Next term’s topic is Roots and Shoots, children will be learning about growth, the cycle of planting and taking care of the environment.
UTW – Explore and respond to different natural phenomena in the setting
        –  Understand the key features of the life cycle of a plant and an animal
C&L – Listen to simple stories and understand what is happening with the help of the pictures

Nursery

Spring Term Knowledge Organiser – 2024-2025

The latest Nursery Learning Update!

Next half term our topic will be ‘Roots & Shoots’, in which children will learn that plants are living
things, how they grow and how to look after them. Children will be planting seeds and observing the
changes that take place as the seeds grow.
In Literacy, over the first 2 weeks, we will be reading ‘We Found a Seed’ written by Rob Ramsden and
‘Sam Plants a Sunflower’ written by Kate Petty and Axel Scheffler.
In Maths we will continue to practice our counting and learn to describe a sequence of events using
words such as ‘first’ and ‘next’.
In Understanding of the World we will be planting seeds, observing their growth and learning to take
care of plants.
In Expressive Arts and Design we will play some musical instruments focusing on playing them fast,
slowly, loudly and quietly and begin to think about the emotions that may be linked to different
sounds.
As part of our learning in PSED we will be talking about different emotions.
The Nursery Team would like to remind parents to upload any activities your child has taken part in
over the Half Term holiday onto Evidence Me.

Reception

Spring Term Knowledge Organiser – 2024-2025

The latest Reception Learning Update!

In Literacy, we will learn and use new vocabulary while exploring instructions for planting seeds. We will also look at ordering words and imperative language to understand how instructions are structured.

In UTW, we will learn how to observe plants closely and draw them independently. We will also explore the four seasons and create a pointillism season tree to represent seasonal changes.

In EA&D, we will create bark and leaf rubbings while observing plants and trees to explore different textures. We will also use movement to represent the seed’s journey through dance.

In Maths, we will compare height and length, measuring time and order numerals. We will also represent, sort and compose numbers 6-10.

In C&L, we will explore what children know about plants, help them ask questions, and learn plant-related vocabulary from the book. We will also act out one of our topic stories.

In PD, we will look closely at plants and draw them carefully. We will also explore how to use our bodies to express emotions and ideas, combining movements to create a dance.

In PSED, we will talk about the importance of listening and why we listen to different people. We will also learn about perseverance by understanding how a seed grows and apply this while making a pointillism tree.