ENGLISH WRITING CURRICULUM
PS/NURSERY

LANGUAGE & COMMUNICATION

To be able to:
• Understand simple instructions
• Listen to and understand simple songs, poems rhymes and stories using pictures and mime.
• Repeat and memorise songs, poems, words and short sentences (affirmative and negative forms)
• Ask simple questions
• Talk about people and things that are not present.
• Use language as a powerful means of widening contacts, sharing feelings, experiences and thoughts.
• Hold a conversation, jumping from topic to topic.
• Learn new words very rapidly and is able to use them in communicating.
• Use a variety of questions
• Use simple sentences
• Begin to use word endings

TOPIC WORK

The children are taught in the same way they would be in an English-speaking nursery class.
A range of free-play opportunities that are related to the topic are provided daily for the children to explore in their own time. There are also different workshops (some independent and some adult-led) set out by the teacher, focusing on each area of learning from the EYFS curriculum, the children should be encouraged, but not forced, to participate in each of these.
They extend their vocabulary, improve their language skills and widen their knowledge of the world around them through the study of topics.
Here are some example of topics that are covered using stories, story mapping, songs, poems, acting, and rhymes…

• Teddy Bear’s Picnic • Princes and Princesses • Chinese New Year • World Music

• Plants • Animals and Insects • Growing Up • Moving up and moving on

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