Weekly planning
Healthy Habits for Healthy Smiles
This week, children will explore our new topic Healthy Habits, focusing on oral hygiene, healthy eating, and looking after our bodies. Through stories, creative activities, sensory play, and hands-on experiences, the children will learn why it is important to brush teeth, eat healthy foods, and practise good hygiene routines every day. Across both our Space and Sea groups, activities will be carefully adapted to suit each child’s age and stage of development, ensuring every child feels confident, included, and engaged.
Throughout the week, children will take part in a variety of exciting learning experiences. These will include exploring healthy and unhealthy foods, practising flossing techniques using interactive resources, learning about dentists and oral care through stories and experiments, and engaging in sensory and role-play activities linked to hygiene and healthy eating. The children will also enjoy creative craft activities, music and movement sessions, and Sports Day practice, while continuing to strengthen their phonics and early maths skills through playful learning opportunities.
These experiences will support children’s communication and language development, independence, confidence, creativity, and both fine and gross motor skills. Most importantly, they will encourage children to develop healthy habits and routines that support their wellbeing, while also promoting teamwork, kindness, and self-care.
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Week 08th-12th June 2026
Space group morning
Personal, Social, and Emotional Development (PSED)
Monday: Children will develop awareness of oral hygiene and the importance of visiting the dentist.
Tuesday: Children will build confidence and pride while creating Father’s Day cards.
Wednesday: Children will develop independence while sorting foods into healthy categories.
Thursday: Children will develop perseverance and responsibility while practising flossing techniques.
Friday: Children will cooperate and participate in shared music and sports activities.
Communication and Language (CL)
Monday: Children will discuss dentists, oral health, and healthy habits through questions and answers.
Tuesday: Children will use language linked to celebrations, kindness, and creativity while making cards.
Wednesday: Children will learn vocabulary related to healthy and unhealthy foods.
Thursday: Children will describe the flossing process and explain why teeth cleaning is important.
Friday: Children will listen and respond during music and sports activities.
Physical Development (PD)
Monday: Children will strengthen fine motor skills through stamp printing activities.
Tuesday: Children will develop pencil control through tracing and decorating cards.
AT: Trace over dotted words.
AD: Write a dedication independently.
Wednesday: Children will strengthen cutting and sticking skills during food sorting activities.
Thursday: Children will develop hand coordination while flossing pretend teeth with yarn.
Friday: Children will develop gross motor skills through sports day practice.
Literacy (LIT)
Monday: Children will listen to Mr Men Go to the Dentist and discuss the story.
Tuesday: Children will practise mark-making and early writing through Father’s Day activities.
Wednesday: Children will begin recognising categories and labels linked to food groups.
Friday: Children will reinforce phonics and listening skills through songs and games.
Mathematics (M)
Daily: Snack shop (counting, number recognition, one-to-one correspondence).
Wednesday: Children will sort foods into categories and compare quantities.
Understanding the World (UW)
Monday: Children will learn about oral hygiene and caring for their teeth.
Wednesday: Children will explore healthy eating and how food supports the body.
Thursday: Children will investigate how flossing removes food particles and supports dental health.
Friday: Children will explore teamwork and movement through sports activities.
Expressive Arts and Design (EAD)
Monday: Children will begin Father’s Day card printing activities.
Tuesday: Children will creatively decorate their Father’s Day cards.
Thursday: Children will explore sensory play through kinetic sand activities.
Friday: Children will express themselves through music, rhythm, and movement.
Space group afternoon
Personal, Social, and Emotional Development (PSED)
Monday: Children will develop understanding of healthy habits and personal hygiene routines.
Tuesday: Children will build confidence while identifying healthy and unhealthy foods.
Wednesday: Children will persevere through number recognition and sequencing activities.
Thursday: Children will develop responsibility through oral hygiene discussions and experiments.
Friday: Children will cooperate during music, movement, and sports activities.
Communication and Language (CL)
Monday: Children will discuss healthy habits and phonics sounds.
Tuesday: Children will use vocabulary linked to food groups and healthy eating.
Wednesday: Children will describe numbers and explain missing number patterns.
Thursday: Children will name and discuss materials used in the brushing experiment.
Friday: Children will listen carefully to rhythm, sounds, and instructions.
Physical Development (PD)
Monday: Children will practise blending and phonics recognition.
Tuesday: Children will strengthen cutting and sticking skills during sorting activities.
Wednesday: Children will develop fine motor control using counters and magnetic numbers.
AT: Use counters and trace numbers 1–10.
AD: Count numbers 1–20 independently.
Thursday: Children will strengthen coordination during the brushing experiment.
Friday: Children will develop gross motor skills through Sports Day practice.
Literacy (LIT)
Monday: Children will practise previously learned phonics sounds and blending.
Tuesday: Children will identify food names and categories.
Wednesday: Children will recognise and write missing numbers.
Thursday: Children will follow instructions linked to the brushing experiment.
Mathematics (M)
Daily: Snack shop.
Wednesday: Children will count, sequence, and identify missing numbers.
Thursday: Children will measure and mix materials during the experiment.
Understanding the World (UW)
Monday: Children will explore healthy habits and oral hygiene.
Tuesday: Children will investigate healthy and unhealthy foods.
Thursday: Children will explore scientific changes during the toothpaste experiment.
Friday: Children will explore rhythm, sound, and movement.
Expressive Arts and Design (EAD)
Tuesday: Children will create food sorting charts and engage in role-play games.
Wednesday: Children will explore numbers through magnetic board play.
Friday: Children will express themselves through music and movement.
Sea group morning
Personal, Social, and Emotional Development (PSED)
Monday: Children will develop awareness of healthy eating and healthy habits.
Tuesday: Children will build independence while practising hygiene activities.
Wednesday: Children will develop curiosity and problem-solving through messy play exploration.
Thursday: Children will practise turn-taking and cooperation during physical games.
Friday: Children will engage in shared enjoyment through music and movement activities.
Communication and Language (CL)
Monday: Children will learn vocabulary related to food, colours, and healthy habits.
Tuesday: Children will discuss oral hygiene and the importance of brushing teeth.
Wednesday: Children will describe textures and talk about cleaning vegetables.
Thursday: Children will follow instructions and learn vocabulary linked to movement and food.
Friday: Children will participate in songs and rhythm activities.
Physical Development (PD)
Monday: Children will strengthen fine motor skills through sorting and craft activities.
Tuesday: Children will develop hand coordination while sticking cotton and brushing soft toys’ teeth.
Wednesday: Children will strengthen fine motor control while washing vegetables.
Thursday: Children will develop gross motor skills through throwing and aiming games.
Friday: Children will practise coordination through music and movement.
Literacy (LIT)
Monday: Children will listen to Eat Your Colours by Amanda Miller.
Throughout the week: Children will engage with repeated vocabulary linked to healthy habits and hygiene.
Mathematics (M)
Monday: Children will sort vegetables according to colour.
Thursday: Children will develop early counting and aiming skills during the frog activity.
Understanding the World (UW)
Monday: Children will explore healthy foods and colours.
Tuesday: Children will learn about oral hygiene and caring for teeth.
Wednesday: Children will explore cleaning and hygiene through sensory play.
Thursday: Children will explore healthy foods through role play and movement games.
Friday: Children will reinforce the importance of healthy habits through music and discussion.
Expressive Arts and Design (EAD)
Monday: Children will complete Father’s Day activities and colour-sorting tasks.
Tuesday: Children will create tooth crafts using cotton and collage materials.
Wednesday: Children will explore messy sensory play with vegetables.
Friday: Children will express themselves through rhythm, songs, and movement.
We listen to the children’s voices
The activities can be changed to adapt to their interests.
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