Welcome to Rabbits Class

Your teacher is: Mrs Bollington

Organisation

You will have Forest School on a Wednesday. Please come dressed in your Forest School kit.

You should wear a long sleeved top and bottoms. In a separate bag, please bring in your wellies and a puddle-suit. This can be kept in school on your coat-peg.

No P.E. kit will be needed this term as you will only be practicing taking your shoes and socks off for music and movement activities.

Autumn 1

Curriculum

This half-term, you will be learning about:

• Class routines and school values - school charter
• Developing social skills and promoting Independence and resilience
• Autumn and Harvest
• Celebrating being unique and special
• Our Families
• Building positive relationships

Autumn 2

Curriculum

This half-term, you will be learning about:

• Bonfire Night 
• Armistice Day
• Nursery Rhyme Week
• Hibernation
• Children in Need
• Interfaith Week
• The Nativity Story
• Stickman Story - Resilience, Perseverance and Family

Spring 1

Topic - Paws and Roars!

Curriculum

Communication, Language and Literacy

Retelling the story  'We're Going on a Bear Hunt' using key phrases and actions.

Develop sequencing skills (beginning, middle, end).

Physical Development

Use gross motor skills in role-play (acting out the hunt).

Fine motor skills through craft activities.

Understanding the World

Explore different environments (grass, river, mud, forest, snow).

Discuss animals and habitats. 

Expressive Arts and Design    

Create props and scenery for story re-enactment.

Use music and rhythm to accompany the story.

Personal, Social & Emotional Development

Work together in groups during role-play.

Talk about feelings (brave, scared, excited). 

Mathematics

Count bears, footprints, and obstacles in the story.

Big bear vs. small bear, long grass vs. short grass.

Positional Language: Over, under, through, behind, in front.

Measurement: Talk about long/short, deep/shallow, heavy/light.

Communication, Language and Literacy

Listen to and join in with the story 'Dinosaur Roar'.

Learn new descriptive words (roar, squeak, big, small).

Enjoy books and rhymes related to dinosaurs

Physical Development

Move like dinosaurs (stomping, creeping, roaring).

Develop fine motor skills through craft activities.

Understanding the World

Explore different types of dinosaurs and their features.

Talk about size, shapes, and opposites (big/small, fast/slow).

Expressive Arts & Design

Create dinosaur crafts and art.

Use music and rhythm to make dinosaur sounds.

Mathematics

Sort dinosaurs by size and colour.

Count dinosaur footprints.

Key Festivals and Themes:

Interfaith Week

Shrove Tuesday

Birthday Celebrations

Spring 2

Topic - Growing Tall!

Curriculum

We will explore the classic traditional tale “Jack and the Beanstalk” while learning all about plants, growth, and change over time.
This topic supports curiosity, imagination and hands‑on exploration across all areas of the EYFS framework.

🌱 Communication & Language

• Retelling Jack and the Beanstalk using puppets, props and story maps.

• Discussing the characters’ actions—Was Jack brave? Was he making good choices?

• Learning and using new vocabulary related to growing: seed, stem, roots, soil, sprout, sunlight, water.

• Listening to and following instructions when planting seeds.

• Talking about what plants need and predicting what will happen next.                                

• 📚 Literacy

• Mark‑making and early writing opportunities:
  • Label a beanstalk
  • Write a “magic bean” message
  • Draw and write about their own giant
• Exploring rhyming words (e.g., bean, green, tall, small).
• Role‑play storybooks and oral storytelling.                                                                               
• 🔢 Mathematics
• Measuring and comparing the height of plants and beanstalks.
• Ordering beanstalk images from shortest to tallest.
• Counting magic beans into pots (including subitising).
• Using positional language: under, over, next to, above when exploring the giant’s world.
• Exploring size: the giant’s huge objects vs Jack’s tiny ones.                                                   
• 🌍 Understanding the World
• Planting beans and observing changes over time.
• Simple experiments: What happens if a plant gets no water? No light?
• Learning about the life cycle of a plant.                                                                                 
• 🎨 Expressive Arts & Design
• Making beanstalk art using paints, collage and textured materials.
• Designing and building castles with blocks, junk modelling or loose parts.
• Role‑play area: Jack’s cottage or the giant’s castle.
• Creating giant footprint trails.
• Making musical “growing” patterns—quiet seed, sprouting sound, big giant stomp!             
• 🤸 Physical Development
• Planting activities that support fine motor skills (pinching soil, holding tools).
• Building tall towers using blocks outdoors.
• Obstacle course: climb, step, balance—climbing the beanstalk.
• Using tweezers to pick up and sort beans for finger strength.
• Drawing large beanstalks on the playground using chalks to encourage big, controlled movements.                                                                                                                           
• 😊 Personal, Social & Emotional Development (PSED)

• Working as a team to plant and care for a shared garden area.

• Taking responsibility for watering and monitoring their own plant.

• Circle times: talking about patience while waiting for seeds to grow.

• Role‑play that encourages turn taking and cooperation.

Key Festivals and Themes

Chinese New Year

World Book Day

Easter