Development Matters

ELG

Understanding The World

Nursery:

• Use all their senses in hands-on exploration of natural materials. 
• Explore collections of materials with similar and/or different properties. 
• Talk about what they see, using a wide vocabulary. 
• Explore how things work.
• Plant seeds and care for growing plants.
• Understand the key features of the life cycle of a plant and an animal. 
• Begin to understand the need to respect and care for the natural environment and all living things. 
• Explore and talk about different forces they can feel. 
• Talk about the differences between materials and changes they notice.
• Continue developing positive attitudes about the differences between people.

Reception:

• Learn new vocabulary.
• Ask questions to find out more and to check what has been said to them.
• Articulate their ideas and thoughts in well-formed sentences.
• Describe events in some detail.
• Use talk to work out problems and organise thinking and activities. Explain how things work and why they might happen.
• Use new vocabulary in different contexts.
• Know and talk about different factors that support overall health and wellbeing such as: regular physical activity, healthy eating, toothbrushing, sensible amounts of screen time, having a good sleep routine.
• Being a safe pedestrian.

The Natural World:

• Explore the natural world around them, making observations and drawing pictures of animals and plants.
• Know some similarities and differences between the natural world around them and contrasting environments, drawing on their experiences and what has been read in class.
• Understand some important processes and changes in the natural world around them, including the seasons and changing states of matter.

Managing Self

• Manage their own basic hygiene and personal needs, including dressing, going to the toilet, and understanding the importance of healthy food choices.

Listening, Attention and Understanding

• Make comments about what they have heard and ask questions to clarify their understanding.

Working Scientifically

Relevant ELG

ELG: Listening, Attention and Understanding

• Make comments about what they have heard and ask questions to clarify their understanding.

ELG: Fine motor skills

• Use a range of small tools, including scissors, paint brushes and cutlery.

ELG: Building Relationships

• Work and play cooperatively and take turns with others.

KS1 Readiness Objectives

To feel confident to answer simple questions about observable properties of objects and people, animals, and plants around them.

To compare objects in their environment and talk about similarities and differences.

To ask questions about the world around them and seek to find their own answers.

Plants

Relevant ELG

ELG: The Natural World

• Explore the natural world around them, making observations and drawing pictures of plants and animals.
• Know some similarities and differences between the natural world around them and contrasting environments, drawing on their experiences and what has been read in class.

ELG: Speaking

• Participate in small group, class, and one-to-one discussions, offering their own ideas, using recently introduced vocabulary.

KS1 Readiness Objectives

To know what a plant is.

To know what a flower is.

To know where you see plants.

To describe different plants and flowers.

Animals Including Humans

Relevant ELG

ELG: The Natural World

• Explore the natural world around them, making observations and drawing pictures of plants and animals.
• Know some similarities and differences between the natural world around them and contrasting environments, drawing on their experiences and what has been read in class.

ELG: Speaking

• Participate in small group, class and one-to-one discussions, offering their own ideas, using recently introduced vocabulary.

KS1 Readiness Objectives

To know what an animal is.

To recognise and name a variety of different animals.

To know the names of different body parts of humans and animals they have experience of.

Everyday Materials

Relevant ELG

ELG: The Natural World

• Understand some important processes and changes in the natural world, including the seasons and changing states of matter.

ELG: Speaking

• Participate in small group, class and one-to-one discussions, offering their own ideas, using recently introduced vocabulary.

KS1 Readiness Objectives

To recognise that different everyday objects are made from different materials.

To describe how different objects look and feel.

Seasonal Change

Relevant ELG

ELG: The Natural World

• Understand some important processes and changes in the natural world, including the seasons and changing states of matter.

ELG: Speaking

• Participate in small group, class and one-to-one discussions, offering their own ideas, using recently introduced vocabulary.

KS1 Readiness Objectives

To know about different types of weather.

To observe changes in trees and plants as the seasons progress.