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Year 1

Class Teacher: Miss C Sheilds

Homework

Reading – Children are expected to read at home at least three times a week. They will have the opportunity to read to an adult in school at least twice a week.

Curriculum Overview

Y1 

Autumn 

Spring 

Summer 

English 

Cave Baby 

Julia Donaldson 

-Captions describing an animals 

  

Not A Stick  

-Writing Lists 

  

Transcription Skills- Lists and captions 

-Letter fornation 

-Segmenting to spell 

– leaving spaces between words 

  

Astro Girl 
Ken Wilson-Max 

  

Fact file about astronauts. 

-Introduce Capital letters and full stops 

-Introduce nouns 

– Simple pronouns 

  

Beegu 

Alexis Deacon 

Character Description 

–               Simple adjectives 

–               Captions 

–               Revisit Capital letters and full stops 

  

  

Billy and the Beast 
Nadia Shireen 

  

  

Character Descriptions 

–               Adjectives 

–               CL and FS 

–               Sequencing events 

–               Suffixes ed, full and less 

  

Write a recipe/ List 

–               Introduce conjunction “and” to join ideas (so/ but) 

–               Suffix “s” for plural 

  

Send for a Superhero 
Michael Rosen & Katharine McEwan 

  

Character Descriptions: Wanted posters 

Describe using adjectives 

Use a range of suffixes 

Orally rehearse sentences 

Use conjunctions (and, so, but, because) 

Begin to use a question mark 

Write speech bubbles 

  

Instructions- Linked to topics 

–               Verbs – past tense 

–               Writing commands 

–               Conjunctions 

  

Yeti and The Bird 

By Nadia Shireen 

Character Description and Simple Narative 

Capital letters and full stops 

Nouns, verbs , adjectivesand conjunctions 

Use sequencing words 

  

Julian is a Mermaid by  

Jessica Love 

Poetry- Descriptive 

Capital letters for proper nouns 

Verbs 

Adjetcives to describe nouns 

The odd egg 

Explanation: How to look after an egg 

Command sentences 

Adjectives to describe 

  

Non-Chronological Report 

Fact-file about Eggs 

  

Dragon Post 

Explantation- How to look after a dragon 

(As above) 

 

Maths 

Place Value 

Addition and Subtraction 

Shape 

Place Value 

Addition and Subtraction 

Length and Height 

Mass and Volume 

 

Multiplication and Division 

Fractions 

Position and Direction 

Place Value 

Money 

Time 

Science 

Seasonal changes 

Animals including humans 

Everyday Materials  

Plants 

Geography 

Continents and oceans/countries and capital cities of the United Kingdom. 

 

Study hot and cold locations 

Mapping and fieldwork 

History 

Changes withing living memory – toys 

 

 

Mary Anning 

Neil Armstrong 

Art 

 

Drawing – Mark making 

 

Painting – Mark making with Primary colours 

 

printmaking- Introduction to Printmaking 

3D intro to clay 

STEM/DT 

Mechanisms – sliders 

 

Textiles – how fabric can keep you warm 

Understanding materials – building with bread 

Music 

Keeping the pulse 

tempo 

Dynamics 

Sound patterns 

Pitch 

Musical symbols 

Computing 

Computing systems and networks – Technology around us 

 

Creating media – digital painting 

 

Programming A – moving a robot 

 

Data and information – grouping data 

c reating media – digital writing 

 

Programming B – programming animation 

 

PE 

Dance 

Moving Monkeez 

Fundamental movements 

Fitness 

Team building Skills 

Gymnastics 

Ball Skills 

Barrow Raiders 

Target Games 

Sending and Receiving 

Swimming 

Athletics 

Yoga 

PSHE 

 Me and my relationships 

 

Valuing difference 

 

Keeping safe 

 

Rights and respect 

 

Being my best 

 

Growing and changing 

 

RE 

 Our wonderful world 

 

Why do Christians give gifts at Christmas? 

 

Special books 

 

What did Jesus teach us? 

 

What do Hindus celebrate? 

 

What do Muslims celebrate?