Focus: Citizenship, Design and Technology, Employability, Making Relationships, Managing Feelings and Behaviour, Materials, Mutual Understanding, Personal Understanding, Properties of Shapes, Statistics, Working Scientifically Getting the chance to rummage in the Toy Box, doesn’t quite seem like learning, yet children cover a wide range in this stimulating theme. They discover what makes their toys work and how they move as well as learning about the materials from which they are made. Then it’s off down memory lane, investigating toys from the past. This is a practical and action-packed theme with a strong focus on Science and movement and energy; concepts that can be difficult to integrate into the early year’s program. With activities focusing on designing, making, and doing, this theme opens a range of problem-solving and decision-making opportunities, so dive right in! Download our FREE Curriculum Overview document for this theme: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/in-the-toy-box-curriculum-coverage-overview-eyfs-12468853

Focus: Animals, Animals including humans, Design and Technology, Employability, Ethical Awareness, Everyday Materials, Geographical skills and fieldwork, Human and physical geography, Living things and their habitats, Making Relationships, Managing Feelings and Behaviour, Mutual Understanding, Personal Health, Personal Understanding, Seasonal Changes, Self-confidence and Self-awareness, Working Scientifically. A fun-packed theme bursting with great learning opportunities for early years. Children are engaged and motivated to find out and think about water in a range of different scenarios. They explore and investigate all the ways we use water and consider what life must be like without this precious commodity. They learn how people got water in the past and how they used it. After splashing in puddles and making music with the rain it’s off to the seaside to spend some time at the shore. Then over and under the waves they go, messing about on boats with pirates, diving down deep to see the richness and variety of marine life. Download our FREE Curriculum Overview document for this theme: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/splish-splash-splosh-curriculum-coverage-overview-ks1-12468862

Focus: Citizenship, Employability, Geographical skills and fieldwork, Health and Self-care, Human and physical geography, Mutual Understanding, Personal Understanding, Position and direction, Self-confidence and Self-awareness, Shape. Taking a walk through their locality and having a good look around them is the basis of children’s learning in this theme. Just who sells what and what can be found on the local high street, with a nosey around the shops makes for a great day out! Back in the classroom early mapping skills, positional and directional language are all developed through the creation of a physical representation of where the children have been exploring. They get to become town planners as they decide what would they like to see come to their town. Download our FREE Curriculum Overview document for this theme: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/down-the-town-curriculum-coverage-overview-ks1-12468849

Focus: Animals, Design and Technology, Employability, Ethical Awareness, Living Things, Measurement, Mutual Understanding, Personal Health, Personal Understanding, Plants, Position and direction, Properties of Shapes, Working Scientifically Plants grow! Animals grow! And we grow too! But what do we all need to ensure that we do? Children investigate what living things need, how they are different, what they have in common, and the stages of their growth and development in this three-part theme. They learn how to measure and record their own growth. They solve the mystery of what helps them grow to become big and strong. They get their hands mucky planting and growing seeds and bulbs. The challenge though is not to kill them! Download our FREE Curriculum Overview document for this theme: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/let-s-get-growing-curriculum-coverage-overview-ks1-12468865

We understand the difficulties in preparing for the return to school in September, and how overwhelming this can be. That is why we have developed our Back on Track Packs, to make life that little bit easier for you. Here you will have access to our E.Y.F.S pack. Don’t forget to check out our KS 1 and KS 2 Packs! Back on Track includes: Extensive resource pack designed specifically for the return to school in September. Includes sixty+ pages of tailored activities focusing on mindfulness, well-being, and readiness to learn. Monitoring and support resources. Bespoke Tracking and Monitoring document to assess each pupil’s emotional well-being, readiness to learn, and the need for intervention. Dedicated follow-up support. We are offering the Foundation Stage Pack entirely free! The pack is designed to reintegrate the children back into the classroom following their time away. The program can be span 2-4 weeks depending on the needs of your children. Once complete, your children should have a greater awareness of the current climate, with a mindful, reflective, and positive perspective. The children will show readiness to learn and tackle our new learning environment with renewed vigor! Best of luck to you all at this challenging time. Firefly Minds Team

This Overview is for the Thematic Unit, A Time to Rhyme! This Overview covers the EYFS Curriculum for England. The theme includes: Thematic Unit in Word & PDF Format Curriculum Coverage Overview Document in Word & PDF Format Thematic Approach Guidance A Guide to the Carousel Planning Activity. Purchase the entire set here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/a-time-to-rhyme-a-thematic-unit-a-full-term-of-activities-eyfs-12468087

The attached Overview is for the Thematic Unit, ‘Brr, it’s Freezing!’ This Overview covers the EYFS Curriculum for England. The theme includes: Thematic Unit in Word & PDF Format Curriculum Coverage Overview Document in Word & PDF Format Thematic Approach Guidance A Guide to the Carousel Planning Activity. Purchase the entire set here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/brr-it-s-freezing-a-thematic-unit-a-full-term-of-activities-eyfs-12468065

Focus: Citizenship, Living things and their habitats, Materials, Mutual Understanding, Personal Health, Personal Understanding, Seasonal Changes, Working Scientifically. The chilly winter world and all things cold are explored in the opening activities of this theme. Children get outside to spot the signs of Winter. Then they get cosy again identifying all the ways we make it through our winter wonderland. Experimenting with ice brings out the scientist in them all. Then it’s off to the Poles to see how people and animals survive the harsh climate and environments found at the extremities of the Earth. Download our FREE Curriculum Overview document for this theme: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/brr-it-s-freezing-curriculum-coverage-overview-ks1-12468864

A theme with separate areas of focus, firstly children learn all about their bones and their skeletons. Discovering how to keep their bones strong and healthy and finding out what happens when bones are broken. Then children become archaeologists as they dig up the remains of exciting new Dinosaurs – their own creative creations. They learn about these wonderful creatures; what they ate; how they moved and what animals today are their closest relatives. The children will invent their own dinosaur, classifying it and naming it. They then explore possible explanations for the death of the dinosaurs! Download our FREE Curriculum Overview document for this theme: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/-them-bones-curriculum-coverage-overview-lks2-12478007

Focus: Animals, Animals including humans, Design and Technology, Employability, Ethical Awareness, Everyday Materials, Geographical skills and fieldwork, Human and physical geography, Living things and their habitats, Making Relationships, Managing Feelings and Behaviour, Mutual Understanding, Personal Health, Personal Understanding, Seasonal Changes, Self-confidence and Self-awareness, Working Scientifically A fun-packed theme bursting with great learning opportunities for early years. Children are engaged and motivated to find out and think about water in a range of different scenarios. They explore and investigate all the ways we use water and consider what life must be like without this precious commodity. They learn how people got water in the past and how they used it. After splashing in puddles and making music with the rain it’s off to the seaside to spend some time at the shore. Then over and under the waves they go, messing about on boats with pirates, diving down deep to see the richness and variety of marine life. Download our FREE Curriculum Overview document for this theme: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/splish-splash-splosh-curriculum-coverage-overview-eyfs-12468841

Focus: Animals, Citizenship, Design and Technology, Education for Sustainable Development, Employability, Geographical skills and fieldwork, Living things and their habitats, Measurement, Media Awareness, Personal Health, Personal/Mutual Understanding, Properties of Shapes, Statistics, Uses of Materials, Working Scientifically. An extensive and varied theme. Children investigate the materials used in building and explore the process of building a house. Comparing and contrasting homes in the past they deepen their understanding of how and why materials are used as well as how things change. They travel the world looking around the types of houses other children live in and learning about how these homes are ideal in their location. Download our FREE Curriculum Overview document for this theme: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/home-sweet-home-curriculum-coverage-overview-lks2-12468854

Focus: Animals, Citizenship, Design and Technology, Education for Sustainable Development, Employability, Geographical skills and fieldwork, Living things and their habitats, Measurement, Media Awareness, Personal Health, Personal/Mutual Understanding, Properties of Shapes, Statistics, Uses of Materials, Working Scientifically. An extensive and varied theme. Children investigate the materials used in building and explore the process of building a house. Comparing and contrasting homes in the past they deepen their understanding of how and why materials are used as well as how things change. They travel the world looking around the types of houses other children live in and learning about how these homes are ideal in their location. Download our FREE Curriculum Overview document for this theme: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/home-sweet-home-curriculum-coverage-overview-ks1-12468855

Focus: Citizenship, Empathy, Employability, Ethical Awareness, Geographical skills and fieldwork, Human and physical geography, Impact of War, Locational knowledge, Moral Character, Personal/Mutual Understanding, Place Knowledge, Refugees, World War II. Some concepts are too big for children to embrace. War is just one of them. However, they can empathise with other children so easily. In this theme, they learn about evacuation and rationing and how life during WW2 affected the children who lived through it. They also explore emotions and feelings in a safe and secure environment! Download our FREE Curriculum Overview document for this theme! https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/through-the-eyes-of-a-child-curriculum-coverage-overview-uks2-12468842

Focus: Animals, Citizenship, Design and Technology, Education for Sustainable Development, Employability, Ethical Awareness, Evolution and Inheritance, Geographical skills and fieldwork, Human and physical geography, Living things and their habitats, Locational knowledge, Media Awareness, Moral Character, Personal/Mutual Understanding, Place Knowledge, Plants, Statistics, Working Scientifically. It’s no longer relevant enough to just know where the rainforests are and what an ideal rainforest looks like. In this theme, children confront the reality of the ‘impact’ of global issues on these immensely important forests, the lungs of our world. They learn about the urgency for action if these amazing and diversely rich ecosystems are to survive man’s insatiable appetite for the products, they can plunder them for. What can each one of us do to have a real ‘impact’ ourselves? Download our FREE Curriculum Overview document for this theme: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/impact-curriculum-coverage-overview-lks2-12468850

Focus: Animals, Citizenship, Design and Technology, Education for Sustainable Development, Employability, Ethical Awareness, Evolution and Inheritance, Geographical skills and fieldwork, Human and physical geography, Living things and their habitats, Locational knowledge, Media Awareness, Moral Character, Personal/Mutual Understanding, Place Knowledge, Plants, Statistics, Working Scientifically. It’s no longer relevant enough to just know where the rainforests are and what an ideal rainforest looks like. In this theme, children confront the reality of the ‘impact’ of global issues on these immensely important forests, the lungs of our world. They learn about the urgency for action if these amazing and diversely rich ecosystems are to survive man’s insatiable appetite for the products, they can plunder them for. What can each one of us do to have a real ‘impact’ ourselves? Download our FREE Curriculum Overview document for this theme! https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/impact-curriculum-coverage-overview-uks2-12468866

Focus: Citizenship, Diet and Nutrition, Digital Citizenship, Economic Awareness, Employability, Lifestyle Impact, Media Awareness, Personal Health, Personal/Mutual Understanding. Children learn how to be all kinds of “wise”. From internet wise, street wise and money wise to health wise. Children explore ways of keeping themselves safe and healthy. This theme also helps children moving on to secondary school education as it looks at the challenges facing them as they move on. Download our FREE Curriculum Overview document for this theme: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/are-you-wise-moving-on-curriculum-coverage-overview-uks2-12468861

Focus: British History, Cultural Understanding, Employability, Mutual Understanding, Personal Understanding, Scientific Investigation, Use of ICT, Working Scientifically. A hunt for evidence and primary sources engages children in this very interactive and interesting theme. Children find out how we know about Early Man as much as what we know. They see how evidence of different kinds is used in the jobs of many people. They set up scientific activities and experiments in a quest to prove hypotheses! Download our FREE Curriculum Overview document for this theme: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/prove-it-curriculum-coverage-overview-lks2-12468844

Focus: Victorians, Ancient Greece, Design and Technology, Economic Awareness, Electricity, Employability, Ethical Awareness, History of Music, Light, Personal/Mutual Understanding, Roman Empire, Sound, Spiritual Understanding, The Shang Dynasty, Working Scientifically. Just how inventive the Victorians were and why is one of the features of this theme. Children learn how these early inventors and their great inventions still impact our lives today. They explore how, without the determination and ability of these people, we would not have many of the things we rely on today. They trace the development of the telephone from tin can to human appendage! A wonderful theme to engage all learners! Download our FREE Curriculum Overview document for this theme: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/invention-and-ingenuity-curriculum-coverage-overview-uks2-12468856

Focus: Victorians, Ancient Greece, Design and Technology, Economic Awareness, Electricity, Employability, Ethical Awareness, History of Music, Light, Personal/Mutual Understanding, Roman Empire, Sound, Spiritual Understanding, The Shang Dynasty, Working Scientifically. Just how inventive the Victorians were and why is one of the features of this theme. Children learn how these early inventors and their great inventions still impact our lives today. They explore how, without the determination and ability of these people, we would not have many of the things we rely on today. They trace the development of the telephone from tin can to human appendage! A wonderful theme to engage all learners! Download our FREE Curriculum Overview document for this theme: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/invention-and-ingenuity-curriculum-coverage-overview-lks2-12468863

Focus: Cultural Understanding, Dance, Earth and Space, Economic Awareness, Employability, ICT Skills, Media Awareness, Personal and Mutual Understanding, Scientific Investigation, Setting Personal Target, Working Scientifically. Research about and exploration of the Solar System engage the children in this stimulating and exciting theme. They learn about our nearest neighbours in space and journey to real and imaginary planets in the footsteps of astronauts and astronomers. Our fixation with celebrities is also explored as children learn about positive role models and the pitfalls of fame. Download our FREE Curriculum Overview document for this theme: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/reach-for-the-stars-curriculum-coverage-overview-uks2-12468843