This week’s activities and learning opportunities based on the Early Years Foundation stage will include the following:

ACTIVITIES

Valuing ourselves, others and different ways of life: self portraits (paint/collage), books – ‘My great big family’, ‘All kinds of people’, ‘What I like About Me’, ‘Oscar Needs a Friend’, school forms – ‘What I can do by myself’ and ‘What I might need help with’, fire station small world play with dressing up uniforms (fire fighters, doctors, nurses, police)

LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES

Personal, Social and Emotional

Have an awareness of, and interest in, cultural and religious differences

Have a positive self-image, and show that they are comfortable with themselves

Understand that people have different needs, views, cultures and beliefs, that need to be treated with respect

Understand that they can expect others to treat their needs, views, cultures and beliefs with respect

Have a sense of personal identity

Have an awareness and pride in self as having own identity and abilities

Knowledge and Understanding of the World

Are interested in others and their families

Show interest in different occupations and ways of life

Gain an awareness of the cultures and beliefs of others

Feel a sense of belonging to own community and place

Begin to know about their own cultures and beliefs and those of other people

ACTIVITIES

Helping and caring for others: role play corner – fire station with fire fighter uniforms and helmets (also, doctors and nurses, police), fire station small world play, emotion puppets – songs and discussion,

LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES

Personal, Social and Emotional

Respond to the feelings and wishes of others

Begin to accept the needs of others, with support

Show care and concern for others

Express needs and feelings in appropriate ways

Have a developing awareness of their own needs, views and feelings, and be sensitive to the needs, views and feelings of others