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Curriculum plans - Year 1

YEAR 1 (Y1) 2009 Autumn Term - First Half Term

Fingers feathers and fins

PSHCE

 
Golden rules, classroom code, rights and responsibilities. School council elections. Self awareness and belonging 
 

Literacy

Main texts to be used:, Billy Wise, The Secret Seahorse.
Non-fiction writing – Sentences about our bodies and senses, fact files about owls. Fiction writing – Story writing based on Billywise. Sea creature descriptions and riddles.
 
Ongoing work throughout the term to include: phonics, word recognition, spelling, grammatical awareness, handwriting, sentence construction, punctuation, vocabulary extension.
Links will be made with other subjects eg Science (labelling body parts), Maths (data handling), Art (sketching owls)
  

Maths

Ongoing throughout the term including:
Mental calculations, properties of numbers, place value, understanding + and -, money, shapes and space, measures, time, data handling, direction and positional language
Links will be made with other subjects eg Science (data handling)
 

Science

  • The Human Body: body parts and senses.
  •  Features of animals: owls and sea creatures.

Information and Communication Technology

  • Learning basic skills: Mouse control, parts of the computer, click and drag. Operating a tape recorder/CD player – play, stop, FF, RW, eject.
  • Introduction to modelling: navigating around programs, using the computer for research and the Internet.
  • Using a paint programme: Using Colour Magic to develop the skills to produce owl pictures.

Design Technology

  • Mechanisms: Learning about sliders and levers; create pictures with moving parts using split pins.

History

  • Personal growth history; the human life cycle.
  • History of the school and locality.

Geography

Where do we live?
 
  • Using globes, atlases Google maps.
  • Drawing maps of our journeys to school.
  • Features of our locality.
  • Visit to Waterlea.

Art

  • Drawing: people, owls and fish.
  • Finger painting owls.
  • Blending chalks and pastels.

Music

  • Musical elements: Fast/slow high/low loud/quiet – exploring instruments.
  • Sounds around us.
  • Responding to a conductor.

Physical Education

  • Gymnastics: basic movements combining balances/body shapes and travelling to make simple sequences on the floor and large apparatus.
  • Dance: Responding appropriately to music (dance based aliens and astronauts and the Christmas production).

Religious Education

Getting to know you – appreciating other people’s cultures and beliefs.
 

YEAR 1 (Y1) 2009 Autumn Term - Second Half Term

PSHCE

  • Making friends.
  • What makes us special?
  • Special celebrations.

Literacy

Same as Autumn first half term.
 

Maths

Same as Autumn first half term.

Science

Same as Autumn first half term.
 

Information and Communication Technology

Same as Autumn first half term.
 

Design Technology

Same as Autumn first half term.
 

History

Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder Plot

Geography

  • Developing an awareness of the world’s oceans.
  • Using an atlas.

Art

 
Same as Autumn first half term.
 

Music

  • Long and short sounds.
  • Stop/start sounds.
  • Songs for the Christmas performance

 

Physical Education

 
Same as Autumn first half term.
 

Religious Education

  • Christmas: The story of Christmas
  • Islam and Islamic festivals
 

YEAR 1 (Y1) 2009 Summer Term - First Half Term

Small seeds and Wondrous Worlds

Personal Social and Emotional Development

  • Caring for our environment.
  • Issues such as right and wrong from the story of Jack and the Beanstalk.
  • School council issues.
     

Communication, Language and Literacy 

  • Main texts: My Bean Diary, Jack and the Beanstalk.
  • We will be: Writing non-fiction bean diaries, retelling the story of Jack and the Beanstalk and writing up our cress investigations.
  • Ongoing work throughout the term will include Phonics, word recognition, spelling, grammatical awareness, handwriting, sentence construction, punctuation and vocabulary extension.
 

Mathmatical Development

  • Numbers and the number system, place value and ordering, addition, subtraction, positional language and problem solving.

Knowledge and understanding of the world

  • Science: Planting beans and other seeds, making careful observations of their growth, naming parts of plants and investigating what plants need to grow healthily.
  • ICT: Using Colour Magic to design story front covers and using keyboard skills to add a title and author name.

Physical Development

  • Games: Sending and receiving with bats and balls and developing football skills.

Creative Development

  • Art: Using chalk pastel skills to create portraits of Jack and the Giant.
  • Music: Exploring how to use pitch descriptively to compose Giant chants.

YEAR 1 (Y1) 2009 Summer Term - Second Half Term

Personal, social and emotional development

  • Healthy food and exercise.
  • Transition to Year Two.

Communication, Language and Literacy 

  • Main texts to be used: The Great Green Forest.
  • We will be: Creating non-fiction fact files about rainforest animals.
  • Ongoing work throughout the term will include Phonics, word recognition, spelling, grammatical awareness, handwriting, sentence construction, punctuation and vocabulary extension.

Mathmatical Development

  • Doubling, simple division as grouping and sharing and measuring.

 

Knowledge and understanding of the world

  • Science: Investigating materials and waterproofing, investigating the habitats and features of different rainforest animals (Zoolab visit). 
  • Geography: Comparing rainforest and local environments (visit to Wakehurst Place). 
  • DT: Designing and making a new rainforest creature.I
  • ICT: Programming a programmable toy (Bee Bots) to follow a route.

Physical Development

  • Athletics: Preparing races for Sports Day.

Creative Development

  • Art: Creating fact file backgrounds using different paint techniques and equipment. 
  • Music: Reviewing previous learning about different instruments, beat, rhythm and pitch. 
  • Whole school project: Exploring ‘Umbrellas’ and other work by Renoir.

Contents

  1. 1 YEAR 1 (Y1) 2009 Autumn Term - First Half Term
    1. 1.1 Fingers feathers and fins
    2. 1.2 PSHCE
    3. 1.3 Literacy
    4. 1.4 Maths
    5. 1.5 Science
    6. 1.6 Information and Communication Technology
    7. 1.7 Design Technology
    8. 1.8 History
    9. 1.9 Geography
    10. 1.10 Art
    11. 1.11 Music
    12. 1.12 Physical Education
    13. 1.13 Religious Education
  2. 2 YEAR 1 (Y1) 2009 Autumn Term - Second Half Term
    1. 2.1 PSHCE
    2. 2.2 Literacy
    3. 2.3 Maths
    4. 2.4 Science
    5. 2.5 Information and Communication Technology
    6. 2.6 Design Technology
    7. 2.7 History
    8. 2.8 Geography
    9. 2.9 Art
    10. 2.10 Music
    11. 2.11 Physical Education
    12. 2.12 Religious Education
  3. 3 YEAR 1 (Y1) 2009 Summer Term - First Half Term
    1. 3.1 Personal Social and Emotional Development
    2. 3.2 Communication, Language and Literacy 
    3. 3.3 Mathmatical Development
    4. 3.4 Knowledge and understanding of the world
    5. 3.5 Physical Development
    6. 3.6 Creative Development
  4. 4 YEAR 1 (Y1) 2009 Summer Term - Second Half Term
    1. 4.1 Personal, social and emotional development
    2. 4.2 Communication, Language and Literacy 
    3. 4.3 Mathmatical Development
    4. 4.4 Knowledge and understanding of the world
    5. 4.5 Physical Development
    6. 4.6 Creative Development

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