Curriculum Overview Year 1

MICHAELMAS

LENT

SUMMER

ENGLISH

Alphabet revision, handwriting,  spelling, rhymes,

Response to text, poetry independent writing

Vowels, handwriting, spelling, listening skills, initial and final blends, double endings, silent letters,

Response to text, poetry independent writing, sentence structure, full stops, capital letters, speech, labels, lists, ordering.

Story structure, fiction, non-fiction, historical, dictionary work, creative, character and factual writing, story writing

Revision of initial, final blends, double endings, silent letters, long ‘a’, ‘e’, ‘I’, ‘o’, ‘u’ sound, aw, or and ar sounds, oi and oy, dictionary work.

Topic based writing, rules, lists, moral stories, poetry. Traditional tales, verbs, nouns, adjectives, missing words, alphabetical order, capital letters and full stops.

MATHEMATICS

Place value, ordering, addition, subtraction, money, measure, shape and space, number sequences, problem solving, time, handling data.

 

Place value, ordering, addition, subtraction, money, measure, shape and space, number sequences, problem solving, time, handling data.

 

Place value, ordering, addition, subtraction, money, measure, shape and space, number sequences, problem solving, time, handling data.

 

SCIENCE

Ourselves

Health, growth, movement, senses, hygiene, reproduction.

Materials

Natural, man-made, toy materials, heating/cooling materials

 

Materials

Keeping cool/warm, grouping, sorting, building materials, changing materials

Forces

Pushes/ pulls, friction, speed

 

The Seaside (cycle 1)

As a home, classification, water cycle, waterproofing, pollution

The Beautiful World (cycle 1)

Waste, care, living/ non-living, trees, habitats, mini beasts, plants, flowers

 

 

 

 

Gardens and Growth (cycle 2)

Water and Boats (cycle 2  )

 

TOPIC

Food and Heath

Harvest, different types of food, healthy eating, food origins, farming, food cultures.  Historical people, Florence Nightingale, Mary Seacole.  Artist Cezanne

Toys

Toys from the past, mechanics of toys, Old Bear

 

Homes

Different types, homes from around the world, rooms, inventions to our homes.

Comparing and contrasting our home and school environment with others in Europe.

Historical people, Alexander Graham Bell,

Transport

Air, rail, sea, water transport.  Historical people, George Stephenson, Neil Armstrong, Amy Johnson

 

The Seaside (cycle 1)

Grace Darling, RNLI, Titanic, Loch Ness, Water waste, safety, recycling, Noah’s Ark, water disasters, pirates, smugglers, Christopher Columbus, exploring coastlines.

 

The Beautiful World ( cycle 1  )

Gardens and Growth (cycle 2)

Waste, pollution, recycling, living/non-living, growth, trees, habitats, mini beasts, world environments. Artists, Henri Matisse, Claude Monet, Vincent Van Gogh

Water and Boats (cycle 2  )

 

PE

Dance:  Let’s Move

 

Games: Ball Games,  team games, Balancing

Stool ball – skills developing and practice

Stool ball – game play

Bat and ball skills

Athletics