Nursery - Term One

The student should be able to:

Objective

Personal, Social and Emotional Development

Independence & Exploration

• Seek and delight in new experiences.
• Have a positive approach to activities and events.
• Seek to do things for him/herself, knowing that an adult is close by, ready to support and help if needed.

Social Development

• Learn social skills, and enjoy being with and talking to adults and other children.
• Seek others to share experiences.
• Begin to accept the needs of others, with support.

Emotional Development

Communication, Language and Literacy

Developing Language for communication and thinking

• Learn new words and be able to use them in communicating about matters which interest them.
• Use simple statements and questions often linked to gestures.
• Respond to simple requests and grasp meaning from context.
• Use language as a powerful means of widening contacts, sharing feelings, experiences and thoughts.
• Participates spontaneously during oral activities.

Linking sounds and letters

• Distinguish one sound from another.
• Repeat words or phrases from familiar stories.
• Enjoy rhyming and rhythmic activities.

Reading

• Have some favourite stories, rhymes, songs, poems or jingles.
• Listen to and join in with stories and poems, one-to-one and also in small groups.

Writing

• Distinguish between the different marks they make.
• Sometimes give meaning to marks as they draw and paint.
• Begin to show some control in the use of tools and equipment.

Mathematical Development

Using Numbers as labels and for counting

• Have some understanding of 1, 2 and 3, especially when the number is important for them.
• Recite number names up to 5 in sequence.
• Use some number language, such as ‘more’ and ‘a lot’.

Calculating

• Categorise objects according to their properties.
• Begin to make comparisons between quantities.

Working with shape, space and measures

• Notice simple shapes and patterns in pictures.
• Begin to categorise objects according to properties such as shape or size.
• Begin to understand variations in size.

Knowledge and Understanding of the World

Exploring & Investigating

• Explore, play and seek meaning in their experiences.
• Use others as source of information and learning.
• Show an interest in the why things happen.
• Be curious and interested in making things happen.

Physical Development

Moving & using space

• Express themselves though actions and sound.
• Gradually gain control of their whole bodies.
• Become aware of how to negotiate the space and objects around them.

Knowing about Health & Bodily awareness

• Communicate needs for things such as food, drinks and when they are uncomfortable.
• Show emerging autonomy in self-care.

Using equipment & materials

• Show increasing control in holding and using books, beaters, and mark making tools.
• Engage in activities requiring hand-eye coordination.

Creative Development

Being Creative

• Seek to make sense of what they see, hear, smell, touch and feel.
• Begin to use representations as a form of communication.

Creating Music & Dance

• Join in singing favourite songs.
• Create sounds by banging, shaking, tapping or blowing.

Developing imagination & imaginative play

• Pretend that one object represents another, especially when objects have characteristics in common.
• Begin to make-believe by pretending.

Physical Education

Ajuste Postural

• Reconocer las distintas posiciones que puede adoptar el cuerpo, y descubrir las posibilidades de equilibrio estático y dinámico, así como la independencia segmentaría.

Spanish

La Gran Aventura de Comunicarnos

• Imitará trazos siguiendo la direccionalidad respectiva.
• Escuchará con atención narraciones, cuentos y películas entre otros.
• Comentará en grupo descripciones de imágenes y situaciones.
• Realizará segmentación silábica oral de palabras.

Music

Learning two beat rhythmic patterns

• Learn traditional songs and games.
• Learn the National anthems.

Art

Exploring Media & Materials

• Begin to be interested in and describe the texture of things.
• Explore colour and begin to differentiate between colours.

Nursery - Term Two

The student should be able to:

Objective

Personal, Social and Emotional Development

Making relationships

• Respond to the feeling and wishes of others.
• Have a positive approach to activities and events.
• Seek to do things for him/herself, knowing that an adult is close by, ready to support and help if needed.

Social Development

• Show care and concern for others, for living things and the environment.
• Show confidence in linking up with others for support and guidance.
• Show confidence and the ability to stand up for own rights.

Emotional Development

• Show increasing independence in selecting and carrying out activities
• Become more aware that choices have consequences.

Communication, Language and Literacy

Developing Language for communication and thinking

• Use intonation, rhythm and phrasing to make their meaning clear to others.
• Join in with repeated refrains and anticipate key events and phrases in rhymes and stories.
• Listen to stories with increasing attention and recall.
• Talk activities through, reflecting on and modifying what they are doing.

Linking sounds and letters

• Show awareness of rhyme and alliteration.
• Recognise rhythm in spoken words.

Reading

• Begin to be aware of the way stories are structured.
• Suggest how the story might end.
• Show interest in illustrations and print in books and print in the environment.

Writing

• Use one-handed tools and equipment.
• Draw lines and circles using gross motor movements.
• Manipulate objects with increasing control.

Mathematical Development

Using Numbers as labels and for counting

• Use some number names and number language spontaneously.
• Recite number names up to 5 in sequence.
• Use some number language, such as ‘more’ and ‘a lot’.

Calculating

• Know that a group of things changes in quantity when something is added or taken away.
• Compare two groups of objects, saying when they have the same number.

Working with shape, space and measures

• Show an interest in shape and space by playing with shapes or making arrangements with objects.
• Show awareness of similarities in shapes in the environment.
• Categorise objects according to properties such as shape or size.

Knowledge and Understanding of the World

Designing and making skills

• Investigate various construction materials.
• Realise tools can be used fro a purpose.
• Join construction pieces together to build and balance.
• Begin to try out a range of tools and techniques safely.
• Learn more about food groups and the importance of these in our lives.

Physical Development

Moving & using space

• Move spontaneously within available space.
• Respond to rhythm, music and story by means of gesture and movement.
• Manage body to create intended movements.

Knowing about Health & Bodily awareness

• Show awareness of own needs with regards to eating, sleeping and hygiene.
• Show awareness of a range of healthy practices with regard to eating , sleeping and hygiene.

Using equipment & materials

• Use one handed tools and equipment.
• Show increasing control over clothing and fastenings.

Creative Development

Being Creative

• Use language and other forms of communication to share they things they create, or to indicate personal satisfaction or frustration.
• Explore and experience using a range of senses and movement.

Creating Music & Dance

• Show an interest in the way musical instruments sound.
• Enjoy joining in with dancing and ring games.
• Sing a few familiar songs.

Developing imagination & imaginative play

• Notice what adults do, imitating what is observed and then doing it spontaneously when the adult is not there.
• Use available resources to create props to support role-play.

Physical Education

Movilidad Articular

• Vivenciar la posibilidad de movimientos articulares de los segmentos corporales.

Spanish

Realidad y Fantasía

• Comprenderá textos orales sencillos como descripciones, narraciones y cuentos breves.
• Realizará conjeturas sencillas, previas a la comprensión de textos y de otras situaciones.
• Seguirá con mayor atención las instrucciones dadas para realizar una actividad.

Music

Learning two beat rhythmic patterns

• Learn traditional songs and games.
• Learn the National anthems.

Art

Exploring Media & Materials

• Explore with primary colours to create secondary colours and tones.
• Choose particular colours to use for a purpose.

Nursery - Term Three

The student should be able to:

Objective

Personal, Social and Emotional Development

Self care

• Show willingness to tackle problems and enjoy self-chosen challenges.
• Demonstrate a sense of pride in own achievement.
• Take initiatives and manage developmentally appropriate tasks.

Social Development

• Show a strong sense of self as a member of different communities, such as their family or setting.
• Show affection and concern for special people.
• Demonstrate flexibility and adapt their behaviuor to different events, social situations and changes in routines.

Emotional Development

• Begin to recognize danger and know who to turn to for help.
• Feel pride in their own achievements.

Communication, Language and Literacy

Developing Language for communication and thinking

• Describe main story settings, events and principal characters.
• Listen to others in one-to-one or small groups when conversations interest them.
• Respond to simple instructions.
• Use talk to give new meanings to objects and actions, treating them as symbols for other things.

Linking sounds and letters

• Hear and say initial sound in words.
• Continue to enjoy rhyming and rhythmic activities.

Reading

• Handle books carefully.
• Know information can be relayed in the form of print.

Writing

• Ascribe meaning to marks that they see in different places.
• Uses pencil with increasing control.

Mathematical Development

Using Numbers as labels and for counting

• Recognise groups with one, two or three objects.
• Show curiosity about numbers by offering comments or asking questions.
• Count out up to six objects from a larger group.

Calculating

• Show an interest in number problems.
• Separate a group of three or four objects in different ways beginning to recognize that the total is still the same.

Working with shape, space and measures

• Observe and use positional language.
• Are beginning to understand ‘bigger than’ and ‘enough’.
• Show interest in shape by sustained construction activity or by talking about shapes or arrangements.

Knowledge and Understanding of the World

Developing Sense of time

• Remember and talk about significant events in their own experience.
• Show interest in the lives of people familiar to them.
• Talk about past and future events

Physical Development

Moving & using space

• Combine and repeat a range of movements.
• Move freely with pleasure and confidence in a range of ways.
• Use movement to express feelings.

Knowing about Health & Bodily awareness

• Observe the effects of activity on their bodies.

Using equipment & materials

• Show increasing control in using equipment for climbing, scrambling, sliding and swinging.
• Demonstrate increasing skill and control in the use of mark-making implements, blocks, construction sets and small world activities.

Creative Development

Being Creative

• Capture experiences and responses with music, dance, paint and other materials or words.
• Develop preferences for forms of expression.

Creating Music & Dance

• Sing to themselves and make up simple songs.
• Tap out simple repeated rhythms and make some up.

Developing imagination & imaginative play

• Develop a repertoire of actions by putting a sequence of movements together.
• Begin to engage in imaginative play based on own first hand experiences.

Physical Education

Lateralidad

• Identificar los dos lados del cuerpo independizando derecha e izquierda y mejorar su capacidad de control.

Spanish

Mundos Imaginarios

• Mejorará su motricidad fina mediante unión de puntos, líneas, repaso de puntos y líneas, coloreado respetando el contorno, recortar y pegar.
• Comunicará sus emociones y vivencias a través de medios gestuales, verbales y corporales.
• Escribirá con la intención de expresar hechos o ideas de manera coherente.

Music

Play and sing “call and response” games and songs

• Learn how to follow the shape of a melody.
• Move in reaction to sounds.

Art

Exploring Media & Materials

• Understand that they can use lines to enclose a space, and then begin to use these shapes to represent objects.
• Create constructions, collages, paintings and drawings using shapes.

Nursery - Term Four

The student should be able to:

Objective