Short-term planning

Short-term planning builds on your long-term and medium-term plans. It involves more detailed planning of opportunities and activities over the next few days.

Your short-term planning should build on your children’s responses to previous activities and opportunities. You should also be prepared to respond in the moment to new opportunities for learning (e.g. a local or national event), and respond to the emerging needs and interests of each child. Remember to ensure that you will still fully develop learning towards all of the curriculum learning statements across the year.

The template you decide to use for your short-term plan will be depend on own context (e.g. how many adults you have available to support your children’s learning) and your school planning policy. 

The example short-term plan below is for one day from Week 2 of the ‘Example EY1 Block 1 medium-term plan’. It exemplifies what you might think about during your short-term planning.

The level of detail in the example short-term plan aims to demonstrate the thinking behind the planning. Your own short-term planning might be less detailed.