Themes

Make a caring centre

• Dentist's clinic
• Pet parlour
• Doctor's surgery
• Toy repair shop

Learn:

• To care about teeth
• To care about pets
• To care about health
• How to care about your toys

Areas of Learning:

• Personal and social development, well-being and cultural diversity
• Knowledge and understanding of the World

Assemble:

• Assemble and paint your house or shop

Understand:

• Colours

 Areas of Learning:

• Creative development

Make a shop:

• What type of shop do you want to make?
• A food shop, a café, a clothes shop?

Learn:

• About Shops and Shopping
• Buying and selling items
• Counting money
• Where food comes from

Areas of Learning:

• Mathematical development
• Welsh Language development
• Personal and social development, well-being and cultural diversity
• Language, literacy and communication skills

Make a home:

• Decorate it
• Make curtains and carpets

Learn:

• About family life
• Cooking, cleaning, washing
• Safety in the home
• Safety in the kitchen
• Fire hazards

Areas of Learning:

• Creative development
• Knowledge and understanding of the World

Make:

• A map of the Arctic and the Antarctic oceans
• A Harbour and a lighthouses

Understand:

• How many continents and how many oceans are there?
• Life in the oceans
• How deep is the Ocean?

 Areas of Learning:

• Creative development
• Knowledge and understanding of the World

Learn:

• The sea as a transport route to other countries
• The challenges of sailing the oceans

Write:

• Other lands
• Whales and fish
• Voyages of discovery

Areas of Learning:

• Language, literacy and communication skills
• Welsh Language development

Make:

• Assemble and paint a model Spaceship
• Make a Paper Mache moon or a lunar moonscape
• Make a model to help you understand an eclipse of the moon

Understand:

• Understand about our World and its moon

 Areas of Learning:

• Creative development
• Knowledge and understanding of the World

 Write:

• A brief poem about life as a Spaceman, think about what you see, hear and consider what you would do

Communicate:

• Use IT equipment to make contact with mission control

Areas of Learning:

• Language, literacy and communication skills
• Knowledge and understanding of the World

Understand:

• That the moon has several effects on the earth

Learn:

• The differences between Earth’s atmosphere and the moons atmosphere.

Areas of Learning:

• Knowledge and understanding of the World

Make:

• Assemble and paint your pirate ship
• Make a treasure island map and sail to the island
• A Periscope

Understand:

• The wind and the seas
• About other countries
• The points of the compass
• How a periscope helps you to see over things or around corners

 Areas of Learning:

• Creative development
• Knowledge and understanding of the World

Discovery:

• Change your pirate ship into:
• A fishing boat and
• A Cross Channel ferry
• Submarine

Learn:

• About people of different countries
• about the different types of fish you can catch
• Plan your holiday but keep a good look out for pirates

Areas of Learning:

• Knowledge and understanding of the World
• Welsh Language development
• Language, literacy and communication skills

Make:

• A sun and the planets and paint them different colours

Understand:

• Discover the differences between the planets

 Areas of Learning:

• Creative development
• Knowledge and understanding of the World

Build:

• A Planets mobile

Learn

• The names of the planets
• The names of their different colours

Areas of Learning:

• Language, literacy and communication skills
• Welsh Language development

Measure:

• The diameters of the planets

Write:

• A list their diameter in order of Highest to lowest

Areas of Learning:

• Mathematical development

Understand:

• Sun rise and  sun set

Learn:

• Children move their  painted planets around the sun to understand how the earth and the planets orbit our sun

Areas of Learning:

• Knowledge and understanding of the World

Understand:

• Why the planets are different from our earth and the stars

Learn:

• What are the differences between comets and asteroids

Areas of Learning:

• Knowledge and understanding of the World

Make:

• Assemble and paint your puppet theatre
• Glove puppets or finger puppets

Learn:

• Puppetry
• Role play
• Talking, writing and listening
• Social interaction
• Team play

 Areas of Learning:

• Creative development
• Welsh Language development
• Language, literacy and communication skills
• Personal and social development

Write:

• A list of common children’s characters.
• Put them into a hat for the children to draw out
• Let the children perform their character

Understand:

• Role play
• Talking and listening

Areas of Learning:

• Language, literacy and communication skills
• Welsh Language development
• Personal and social development

Make:

• Assemble and paint your quiet zone pyramid

Discover:

• Let the quiet space allow time for reflection
•  A secret place to  read your favourite book

 Areas of Learning:

• Personal and social development
• Personal and creative development

Make:

• Make the pyramid into a wigwam
• Paint and assemble your wigwam

Learn:

• Explore the ways people of different countries live
• How many different types of homes are there?
• What else is different in other countries and cultures?

Areas of Learning:

• Knowledge and understanding of the World

Make:

• Make it into a wizard’s den:
• Paint and assemble your wizard’s den

Learn:

• About wizards, spell and enchanted places

Areas of Learning:

• Language, literacy and communication skills
• Welsh Language development

Make:

• Paint and assemble your own row of beach huts
• Build a sand castle
• Make and paint crabs, starfish and jelly fish

Learn:

• About the seashore
• Understand the tides
• How the seashore changes
• Rising sea levels

 Areas of Learning:

• Creative development
• Knowledge and understanding of the World

Organise:

• a trip to the beach
• a picnic

Write:

•  a list of food needed and prepare a barbeque

Areas of Learning:

• Welsh Language development
• Language, literacy and communication skills

Safety:

• Learn to be safety conscious near water

Understand:

• Be aware of tides and currents
• Find out about lifeguards, coastguards and lifeboats

Areas of Learning:

• Knowledge and understanding of the World

Make:

• Assemble, paint and decorate your super spaceship as a class activity
• Assemble and paint your small spaceship.
• Assemble the classroom packs of mini spaceships as a class project
• Make the xsmall spaceship into a mobile
• Build a moonscape

Learn:

• Countdown to lift off and soar to the moon in your spaceship
• Name the planets and understand their position in our solar system
• Learn about the earth from space with your crew

 Areas of Learning:

• Creative development
• Welsh Language development
• Knowledge and understanding of the World

Measure:

• Use the small Spaceship as a personal space shuttle to take you on a journey of discovery

Write:

• Write a story about your journey to the Moon

Areas of Learning:

• Language, literacy and communication skills
• Welsh Language development

Make:

• Assemble and paint a line of surf shacks

Understand:

• How are surfboards made?
• Where are the best beaches for surfing?
• Who is the best surfer in the world?

 Areas of Learning:

• Creative development

Write:

• A list of animals that can be found on the coast or sea beginning with ‘S’

Understand:

• That the coast is a home for many animals
• The importance of picking up your litter.

Areas of Learning:

• Language, literacy and communication skills
• Welsh Language development

Understand:

• About coast safety and sea currents
• How tides work

Write:

• A list of to prepare for you for your coast trip
• Remember all your safety gear!

Areas of Learning:

• Knowledge and understanding of the World