🌟 Christmas: High-Impact Question & Vocabulary Banks | EYFS PLanning Download 🌟
for Babies 0-18 Months | Toddlers 18-36 Months | Preschool 3-4 Years | Reception 4-5 Years
Make your festive season learning rich, purposeful, and curriculum-focused with our Christmas High-Impact Question & Vocab Bank!
This unique EYFS resource is specifically designed for UK Early Years practitioners who want to go beyond simple festive crafts and use the excitement of Christmas to drive significant language and cognitive development. It provides the precise framework you need to embed high-quality interactions into every festive activity.
What is Included in this Essential Toolkit?
Structured for clarity and developmental appropriateness, this pack contains four distinct, ready-to-use planning pages, covering the entire Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS):
Babies: 0–18 Months
Toddlers: 18–36 Months
Preschool: 3–4 Years
Reception: 4–5 Years
Each age-specific page provides:
Intent Summary: Focuses on the specific learning goals linked to the Christmas theme.
High-Impact Questions: Strategically designed to extend children's thinking during play and discussion about festive concepts.
Vocabulary Bank (Core to Extended): Targeted lists of Christmas vocabulary for purposeful teaching and progression.
Enabling Environment Prompts: Ideas to set up your Continuous Provision to naturally facilitate rich language use.
Adult-Led Opportunities: Quick, focused activities to model and consolidate new language.
Observation Prompts: Clear guidance on what to record to capture the impact of your targeted language focus.
Maximise Your Festive Teaching Impact:
Download this essential EYFS Christmas resource to empower your team and ensure every child is challenged and supported:
Targeted Vocabulary Building: Systematically introduce and embed complex festive vocabulary into play.
Elevated Dialogue: Use the strategic questions to encourage critical thinking, reasoning, and reflection during imaginative and sensory play.
Coherent Planning: Offers a clear structure (Intent, Implementation, Impact) to evidence how your Christmas planning supports learning and progression.
Ready to transform your Christmas interactions? Get your hands on this EYFS Question and Vocab Bank today and make this festive season your most impactful one yet for child development! 🛠️
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Activity Ideas based on EYFS Areas of Learning | Support Packs for each Age & Stage:
Scroll through our Area of Learning Support Packs using the arrows on the right. Support examples within each pack are extracted from Development Matters (non-statutory curriculum guidance for the early years foundation stage) and presented in an ‘easy to digest’ format. Packs include colour and black and white versions.
