Programme of Work

The programme will include some or all of the following types of activity:

Movement:

• Group games involving running, jumping and hopping.
• Group games involving movement followed by stopping.
• Moving to music.
• Balancing activities and games.
• Play on a range of landscapes (e.g. flat/hilly) and surfaces (e.g. grass/sand).

Sense of Space:

• Role play activities giving children the opportunity to create pathways.
• Giving the children the opportunity to create their own spaces (e.g. tent from blankets).
• Group games that involve following or imitating.
• Encourage games and activities that involve sharing resources with other children.
• Discussions about body parts and bodily activity.
• Singing action songs (e.g. Head, shoulders, knees and toes).

Health and Bodily Awareness

• Discussions about keeping safe, fit and healthy.
• Discussions about eating a healthy diet.
• Encouraging children to make decisions by choosing between different types of food.
• Making and eating food from a range of cultures that can form part of a healthy diet.
• Providing opportunities for children to talk about health issues.

Using Equipment:

• Outdoor play using a variety of equipment e.g. slides, climbing frames, trampolines.
• Play with wheeled toys e.g. push-along trucks, tricycles, bicycles.
• Practising kicking, throwing and catching large and small balls.

Using Tools and Materials:

• Sand play.
• Water play.
• Modelling with playdough and clay.
• Painting, drawing and colouring.
• Peg games and jigsaws.
• Threading.
• Cutting with scissors.
• Dressing-up, buttoning clothes, doing up zips, etc.
• Dressing of dolls.
• Use of small construction toys (duplo, stickle bricks etc).
• Making ‘junk’ models.
• ‘Reading’ books - page turning.
• ‘Writing’ with pencils and crayons.
• Collage and other pasting activities.
• Use of the computer keyboard.