St Stephen’s Kearsley Moor C of E Primary School
EYFS Long Term Overview 2022-2023
Forest Schools
Topic
Autumn 1
Autumn 2
Spring 1
Spring 2
Summer 1
Summer 2
Marvellous Autumn Me Changes New Beginnings
Seasons/Weather
Planets
Minibeasts
Animals
Transport
Gardening
Discovering Minibeasts
Getting the children used to the process, routines, expectations about outdoor learning. Autumn play, scavenger hunts, leaf crowns, leaf pictures, harvest.
Seasons Changing
Discovering signs of Autumn. Signs of nocturnal animals and how we can spot these. Collecting and hammering autumnal objects into cotton, making veg soup, sparklers and fire safety.
Big Garden Bird Watch
Understanding the environment, identifying birds, listening for bird songs, taking care of local wildlife. Making binoculars, bird nest stories, birdday party food.
Understanding how we can help bring wildlife to our natural environment, e.g. leaving sugar drops for bees – being a wildlife hero.] Planting seeds. Daffodil craft activities, bee pollen race. Making wind chimes/windsocks.
Learning through a variety of national days about minibeasts. Worm Charming, Insect Week and Mud day. Discovering and creating habitats for living things and their life cycles.
Biodiversity
Looking at all different kinds of life that we might find in FS that make up our natural world. How we can help protect future generations of living organisms. Making butterfly plate feeders and chalk art, exploring fungi.
Communication and Language
NB: Activities and themes are not limited to the above, but allow for a general guide for each half term. Children’s interests through outdoor experiences guide their next steps in learning. Understand how to listen carefully and why listening is important. Enjoy joining in at group times. Engage in story times by answering simple questions. Talk to others and take turns to speak. Share opinions and feelings with familiar adults using talk as a tool.
Ask questions to find out more. Develop social phrases. Listen carefully to rhymes and songs, paying attention to how they sound. Demonstrate good listening behaviours. Following simple instructions reliably (with two or more parts). Waiting to take turns in conversations. Joining in with familiar rhymes and songs.
Learn new vocabulary Use new vocabulary through the day
Articulate their ideas and thoughts in well-formed sentences. Connect one idea or action to another using a range of connectives. Respond to others views and ask questions about what has been heard. Engage in non-fiction books. Listen to and talk about selected non-fiction to develop a deep familiarity with new knowledge and vocabulary.
Describe events in some detail Use talk to help work out problems and organise thinking and activities explain how things work and why they might happen. Sharing ideas within smaller groups. Explaining events that have already happened. Talk in full sentences using different tenses.
Listen to and talk about Retell the story once they stories to build familiarity have developed a deep and understanding. familiarity with the text; Engage in non-fiction some as exact repetition books and respond with and some in their own questions, comments and words. actions. Use new vocabulary in Listen to and talk about different contexts. selected non-fiction to Explain why things develop a deep familiarity happen/might happen. with new knowledge and Use learnt vocabulary vocabulary. from stories, rhymes, Ask questions to find out poems, songs. more and to check they Use conjunctions to understand what has been said to them. connect ideas. Listen carefully to rhymes and songs, paying attention to how they sound. Use new vocabulary in different contexts Learn rhymes, poems, and songs. Engage in story times