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What we are going to be learning about 

2025- 2026

Autumn Term 1

Topics we will cover in this half term:

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  • All about me - My family

  • Emotions and Feelings

  • Harvest (farmers/farm animals)

  • Colours 

  • Diwali 

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We made a scarecrow!
We really enjoyed this edible farm tuff tray.
Painting with barley and wheat.
Working as a team to make the crumble mix.
Using fine motor skills
Stuffing our scarecrow.
Observing Snails.
Watching Snails.
Chopping apples
Designing a scarecrow.
Emotion mark making.
Puzzles with friends.
Pipette drops of colour on emotion faces.
Physical skills
Sorting same expressions.
Listening to emotion stories.
We made emotion dragons.
Looking after the babies
Matching emotions.
Emotion face bowling.
Emotion sensory tray
Turn taking
Making faces.
Investigation
Using fine and gross motor movements
Imaginative play.
Farm organising.
Playing with bread dough
Practicing cutting
Peg Puzzles
Setting up the farm.
Colour sorting
Chopping fruit
Muddy animal footprints.
Watering the flowers
Wind mill designing after reading 'The Little Red Hen'.
Making apple crumble.
Taste test.
Colour mixing to decorate a pig.
Playing with oats.

Spring Term 1

Topics we will cover in this half term:

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  • Muck, Mess and Mixtures (including: national bird watching week)

  • Let's Get Physical (including: oral health and healthy eating)

  • Teddy Bears 

  • Valentines Day

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Gross motor skills
Splatter painting
Jumping on trampolines
Making sand castles
Chopping up fruit and vegetables
Taste testing fruit and then making them into smoothiessmoothies
The Ladybird Music Band
New road
smoothie maker
Find motor skills
Spinning chairs
Balancing
Obstacle course
Climbing stairs safely
Copying the plans
Looking after our teeth
Good/Bad for our teeth
How we brush our teeth
Messy play. What fun!
"We've made hovers"
Sorting fruit & veg into colour coded boxes
Quilling
We made binoculars!
National Bird watching week
Spotted a bird house
Making bird food
Threading
Using whisks to make frothy bubbles
Scooping and pouring with oats
Paint rolling in large trays
Sorting shapes
Gloop and coloured ice
Spaghetti play
Chalk painting outside
Bath bomb experiments
Story - Mouse paint
Using tools.

Summer Term 1

Topics we will cover in this half term:

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  • Knights and Princesses  

  • St George's Day

  • Keeping Yourself Healthy and Clean (including: oral health, healthy eating, plus NSPCC - Pants)

  • Around the World

  • Planting and Growing

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Autumn Term 2

Topics we will cover in this half term:

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  • Seasons - Autumn (Bonfire Night)

  • Shops

  • Space 

  • St Andrew's Day

  • Christmas (celebrated around the world)

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Visit from Shepreth Hedgehog Hospital
Drawing their own tartan patterns

Spring Term 2

Topics we will cover in this half term:

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  • World Book Weeks

  • St David's Day

  • Mother's Day

  • St Patrick's Day

  • Down Syndrome Day

  • Easter

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Peppa pig Muddy puddle book
'Dizzy Bear DIY Day' book
Reading
'Dizzy Bear DIY Day' book
'Dizzy Bear DIY Day' book
Bumpus Jumpus Dinosaurumpus  book
Peppa pig Muddy puddle book
Peppa pig Muddy puddle book
10 Splishy Splashy Fish book
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10 Splishy Splashy Fish book
10 Splishy Splashy Fish book
'Dizzy Bear DIY Day' book
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'Dizzy Bear DIY Day' book
'Dizzy Bear DIY Day' book
'Dizzy Bear DIY Day' book
'Dizzy Bear DIY Day' book
'Dizzy Bear DIY Day' book
'Dizzy Bear DIY Day' book
Bumpus Jumpus Dinosaurumpus  book
'Dizzy Bear DIY Day' book
That's Not My ... (series)
That's Not My ... (series)
Chicka Chicka Boom Boom Book
Bumpus Jumpus Dinosaurumpus  book
Dear zoo book
Dear zoo book
Chicka Chicka Boom Boom Book
Chicka Chicka Boom Boom Book
Dear zoo book
Hamilton Hats Book

Summer Term 2

Topics we will cover in this half term:

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  • People Who Help Us

  • Construction (builders)

  • Father's Day

  • Pets (vets)

  • Seaside/Holidays

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