This numeracy scheme of work for the Foundation Stage gets the children to explain and model how to control the direction and position of a robot when moving about the classroom to perform different functions. The class can role-play moving as robot following some sets of movement instructions and commands.

Right or Left

Practise controlling the movements of a robot or vehicle to make some different actions for right or left when exploring a special location

Backwards, Forwards, Sideways

Investigate and illustrate how to follow and give sets of instructions to make different movements in the classroom as a robot moving backwards, forwards and sideways

Front, Behind, Opposite

Explore and record how to move pairs of cubes to match some special vocabulary words describing their position for front, behind and opposite

  • Family Holiday

    Family Holiday

    Identify and recount events and experiences to describe what happened when on holiday at the seaside using sentences in the past tense

  • Holiday Shirts

    Holiday Shirts

    Produce items of clothing to wear on a holiday to a particular location by selecting and using shapes to represent different places

  • Robot Movements

    Robot Movements

    Explain and model how to control the direction and position of a robot when moving about the classroom to perform different functions

  • Jack and the Beanstalk

    Jack and the Beanstalk

    Explore, role-play and change the sequence of narrative events that occur in a traditional story and select and match cvc words with the same final phoneme sounds