When we go back to school in September, my EYFS class will start working on a curriculum where we only work on each topic for 4 weeks. This allows us to cover all the areas needed for the FSP as well as some topics that our children always love. When the children move into KS1, they will have 8 weeks on each topic with a 4 week 'All About Me' topic at the start of each year. KS1 will cover 9 topics over 2 years and EYFS will cover them all in 1 year. This means that the children will visit each topic twice in their first 3 years of school allowing them to build on their previous learning.
We have placed the topics throughout the year where they fit most appropriately e,g. the 'Toys' topic is 2 weeks before Christmas and 2 weeks after, linking it perfectly to Christmas, letters to Santa and talking about toys the children got as presents. Our 'Seasides' topic will be in the summer so we can hopefully have a sunny visit to the beach!
We also know that we will be getting an Ofsted visit this year as they carried out an interim (distant) inspection, which they were happy with, last school year and should be with us after Christmas some time to do a proper one.
I'm mindful that whenever we've finished a topic, everything comes down and all that good work disappears from view. Because I want to be able to show off everything we do, I've decided to make some pin boards linked to the topics that will hang in my cloakroom and be a lasting reminder of what we have been up to.
I've used my Cricut Explore, some scraps of card and some old paint tester pots to jazz up some £2 pin-boards from QD. Even if I do say so myself, I think they look pretty fab!
This is how they look blank:
And here they are once the topic has been finished and they're full of photos:
The boards will hang in the cloakroom all year and I can display photos of the things we have done during that topic.
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