Cygnets Autumn Curriculum
Dear Cygnets Parents
Please read below and be familiar with the Cygnets curriculum guidance to support your child at home.
Topic | Autumn 2024/2025 Expected targets for Cygnets children age 3+ from Monday, 23rd Sep 2024 - Friday, 20th December 2024 |
Autumn 2025/2026 This is the planned curriculum and expected targets for Cygnets children age 4+ from Monday, 22nd September 2025 - Friday, 19th December 2025 |
School Readiness Goals - Early Years Support |
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Topic |
All About
Me ➢ My Family ➢ Houses ➢ My friends ➢ Keeping Healthy ➢ My brain |
Celebrations ➢ Toys ➢ The Nativity ➢ Celebrations (Christmas, Diwali, Hannukah) ➢ Seasonal Change |
Play
My First Day at School - BBC Bitesize Supporting-transitions-guidance.pdf (surreylocaloffer.org.uk) |
Celebrations and Festival |
Harvest Festival (Oct 1st) Halloween (Oct 31st) |
Diwali
(Nov 12th) Bonfire Night (Nov 5th) Remembrance Day (Nov 11th) Hanukah (Dec 7th – Dec 15th) Christmas (Dec 25th) New Year |
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British
Values & Characteristics of Effective Teaching and Learning |
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British Value: Individual Liberty • Characteristics of Effective Teaching and Learning: Engagement - Playing and Exploring |
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British Value: Rule of Law • Characteristics of Effective Teaching and Learning: Engagement - Playing and Exploring |
Table Data |
Building
Social and Emotional Wellbeing Plan (to
promote holistic well-being and influence child self-esteem, confidence, and
ability to cope with challenges and novelty with a structured support plan that
is enjoyable and involves child, family and Cygnets team members) |
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Social and emotional skills: attitudes: values: |
• Social interaction and sense of belonging skills: attitudes: values |
Table Data |
Schemas & Interests, personality, and experiences to complement exploration. E,g. Transporting (at different levels of development: First, children learn through the senses called sensorimotor stage-discovering their weight differences, how things around them can be transported from one place to another, their distances, journeys, mapping, and where things belong and secondly, children develop in to Symbolic representation stage where children use one thing to stand for another (e.g. using a leaf as pretend money) |
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• Painting • Small World Play | |
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Core Text
(Children wread with Early years practitioners to
gather knowledge and foster a love for books and numbers) | The Three Little Pigs Owl Babies What I like about me | Room on the Broom Kippers Toy Box The Elves and the Shoe Maker Jack Frost The First Christmas | |
Suggested Further Reading Texts (to foster a love for reading books and
practising numbers at home with family members. Research suggests that children
who regularly read at home and hear more vocabulary can read early and there
can be a 'million-word gap' for children who aren't read to at home. ) |
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I Like Myself •
It’s Okay to be Different • We all Have Different
Families • I’m Starting Pre School Learning •
The Paper Dolls •
No Matter What •
All about me
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My Body |
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One snowy night • The little Christmas
Tree • The Lost and Found • Is it Christmas Yet? •
I’m a little Firework • Fireworks Sense Poems •
Stickman • Jolly Christmas Postman •
The Christmas Story •
Meg and Mog
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Winnie the Witch |
Table Data |
Suggested Rhymes, Poems, Songs |
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Daddy Finger •
We Are a
Family •
Skidamarink A Dink A Dink • This Is The Way We Make Friends • Healthy habits |
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When Santa got
stuck up the chimney •
Jingle Bells •
Christmas Pudding |
Table Data |
Vocabulary & Role Play to remember and do
more |
• Autumn Words: Autumn Leaves, Pumpkin, Harvest, Acorn, Scarecrow, Windy, Sweater, Apple, Wasp, Nest •
Three
Little Pigs or take child
lead Vocabulary: Brave,
Mother, Brothers, three, Bold, Big, Little, Goodbye, Bad, Good, Sharing, heavy,
load, house, straw, sticks, brick, leave, high, set off, creeping up, help,
growl, growled, turnips, 5 O’Clock, angry, crash, splash |
• Autumn Words: Crisp Bonfire Corn Hayride Mushroom Rake Thanksgiving Lantern •
Elves
and the Shoemaker or take
child lead Vocabulary: Cygnets
educator to decide based on the child interested book choice. Role Play starting Phrases to wonder: |
• Autumn Words: Maple, Chestnut, Gourd, Cider Hedgehog Foggy Pinecone Harvest Moon |
Communication and Language - Prime Area.
Pre School Skills Developed |
I know how
to listen to stories, and I can remember much of what happens. I can respond to stories, songs and rhymes by
joining in. I
can sing rhymes and look at picture books. |
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