HOW WE EXPRESS OURSELVES

Through imaginative, creative, and role-based play, children will express their ideas, emotions, and experiences. They will experiment with a variety of materials, stories, and dramatic play, developing communication skills and building confidence in sharing their thinking. This unit supports children in recognising that play is a powerful way to explore, make sense of the world, communicate and connect with others.

ON-GOING UNIT

Students will explore language, symbols, and stories through play, talk, and creativity. They will engage in rich conversations, enjoy songs and rhymes, and notice sounds and patterns in words. They will experiment with drawing, mark-making, and writing for real purposes, including their own names. They will use art, role play, and dramatic play to share ideas and feelings. They will enjoy books, ask questions, retell stories, and connect print with meaning, building strong foundations for literacy.

ON-GOING UNIT

Students will understand that numbers, shapes, patterns, and symbols help us make sense of the world. They will use mathematical language to describe ideas, solve problems, and explain their thinking. They will explore symbols, marks, and materials to represent quantities, patterns, and relationships. They will enjoy stories, songs, and play as opportunities for rich numeracy learning. Through inquiry, real-life experiences, and collaborative conversations, they will connect mathematics to their lives, express ideas in many ways, and build joyful confidence in numeracy.

CREATING THROUGH MOVEMENT

Students will develop their skills through Gymnastics, Dance, and Aquatics, with a focus on creativity, expression, movement, and exploring different equipment. Integrated with the EY3 How We Express Ourselves Unit of Inquiry, children will explore how different tools, materials, and equipment can be used in different ways to create movement and express simple ideas or feelings. Through gymnastics, dance, and water play, they will experiment, make choices, and discover that movement can look different for different people. As part of their stand-alone PE learning, children will use simple gestures to show emotions, act out short stories through movement, copy movements from songs and rhymes, and build confidence using their bodies creatively.