Wii Foundation Objectives

A colleague of mine created the below list of Foundation stage objectives mapped to the use of the Nintendo Wii in the classroom. It helped our staff show parents and others the value and relevance of using a Wii in school.

Wii

• Supports Foundation Stage curriculum… (DfES)

• Knowledge and Understanding of the World: Information and communication technology.

• ‘Show an interest in ICT.’
• ‘Know how to operate simple equipment.’
• ‘Complete a simple program on the computer and/or perform simple functions on ICT apparatus.’
• ‘Find out about and identify uses of everyday technology and use information and communication technology and programmable toys to support their learning.’

• Personal, Social and Emotional Development: Dispositions and attitudes.
• ‘Continue to be interested, excited and motivated to learn.’
• ‘Be confident to try new activities, initiate ideas and speak in a familiar group.

• Personal, Social and Emotional Development: Making relationships.
• ‘Work as part of a group or class, taking turns and sharing fairly, understanding that there needs to be agreed values and codes of behaviour for groups of people, including adults and children, to work together harmoniously.’

• Communication, Language and Literacy: Language for thinking.
• ‘Use talk to organise, sequence and clarify thinking, ideas, feelings and events.’

• Physical Development: Movement.
• ‘Move with confidence, imagination and in safety.’
• ‘Move with control and coordination.’

• Physical Development: Sense of space.
• ‘Move body position as necessary.’
• ‘Show a clear and consistent preference for the left or the right hand.’
• ‘Show awareness of space, of themselves and of others.’

• Physical Development: Health and bodily awareness.
• ‘Recognise the changes that happen to their bodies when they are active.’

• Physical Development: Using equipment.
• ‘Use increasing control over an object by touching, pushing, patting, throwing, catching or kicking it.’
• ‘Use a range of small and large equipment.’

• Physical Development: Using tools and materials.
• ‘Handle tools, objects, construction and malleable materials safely and with increasing control.’

• Creative Development: Responding to experiences, and expressing and communicating ideas.
• ‘Talk about personal intentions, describing what they were trying to do.’