Year 1 Curriculum Overview 2014-15

MOORFIELD PRIMARY SCHOOL-YEAR 1 CURRICULUM OVERVIEW Year 1 Curriculum Overview 2014-15 Year Term 1a Term 1b Term 2a Term 2b Term 3a Term 3b 14-15 English We will revise all We will be learning the We will be looking at the We will be looking at We will be looking at We will be learning about consonant and correct letter formation structure of traditional nursery rhymes. We information texts, non-fiction texts including vowel sounds in handwriting and stories, focusing on narrative will be concentrating including recounts of writing labels and tour introduced in beginning to write simple therapy. We will begin to apply on using suffixes; s, observations and stories guide leaflets. We will be Reception. We sentences independently, this structure to our own es, ed, er and ing. We about fantasy worlds. We writing short narratives will read and using capital letters and writing. We will continue to will be writing will learn to say and spell and creating our own write middle full stops. We will focus on reinforce letter sounds, recounts using words with long vowel seaside poems. short vowel instruction writing and consonant clusters, long vowel chronological order of phonemes (Phase 5 Letters sounds in simple acting out stories using sounds and alphabetical order. our experiences. We and Sounds) e.g. ay, ee, ie, words e.g. ‘a’ (hat) role play. We will revise We will continue with phase 4 will learn phase 5 oa and ue. We will continue ‘e’ (wet). We will phase 3 and continue with and start to look at phase 5 phonics. to learn weekly spellings revise phase 2 phase 4 letters and sounds phonics. and high frequency words. and look at phase phonics. We will revise all the 4 letters and phonic sounds. sounds phonics as well as letter names.

Maths We will be We will learn our number We will be practising counting We will be learning to We will be looking at We will learn doubles of reading and bonds up 5 and develop on and back from a small weigh using non- numbers up to 100. We will numbers up to 10. We will writing numbers this to 10. We will number. We will learn to say standard units and begin to learn to recognise introduce multiplication as to 20.We will be partition numbers into number names to 100. We will begin to construct the relationship between repeated addition. We will investigating tens and ones. We will use continue to recognise addition block graphs. We will coins up to £1. We will be look at 3D shape and sort addition as a coins to make 5p in pairs for all numbers to 10 and continue to work on using the role play area to these according to their combination of different ways. We will look at inverse operations. addition and play shops and practicing properties. We will create two sets and look at 2D shapes and sort subtraction and making amounts and giving symmetrical patterns. We subtraction as according to their record as number change. We will learn the will learn about ordinal take away. We properties and learn to sentence. We will days of the week and the numbers. will be weighing read time to the hour on learn about odd and months of the year. and measuring an analogue clock. even numbers and using non- number patterns. standard units. We will learn to recognise coins.

Science Our topic is Our topic is “Animals, Our topic is “Seasonal Our topic is “Seasonal Our topic is “Plants.” We Our topic is “Animals, “Everyday including humans.” We will Changes.” We will be looking at Changes.” We will be will be identifying and including humans.” We will Materials.” We be naming the parts of the how day length varies. We will observing the changes naming a range of common, be learning about the will be naming human body and learning be learning about light and across the four wild and garden plant and differences between materials and about the five senses. dark. seasons. trees. We will name the animals, grouping and describing their parts of plants and grow classifying animals by properties and our own bean. their common features and making what they eat (carnivore, comparisons. herbivore, omnivore).

Computing We will be We will be reinforcing the We will be reinforcing the We will be reinforcing We will be reinforcing the We will be reinforcing the reinforcing the importance of internet importance of internet safety. the importance of importance of internet importance of internet importance of safety. We will be We will be developing our internet safety. We safety. We will be safety. We will use Roamer internet safety. developing our mouse programming skills using highlight the developing our to learn how to program We will be control skills to draw Espresso Coding. importance of online programming skills using instructions to make it developing skills pictures using Dazzle. safety with Safer Espresso Coding. We will move. We will continue to in word Internet Day. We will continue to develop our develop our word processing as well continue to learn more word processing skills processing skills by as reinforcing about Dazzle to expanding our keyboard other curriculum create pictures. We knowledge. We will also areas by using will learn to use continue to use Abacus to the Internet and 2Investigate to support Numeracy. computer create block graphs. programmes.

RE We will be finding We will continue to find We will be finding out about We will focus on the We will be talking about We will focus on the Bible out about some out about the Old Jesus and his disciples. We will stories and symbols Christianity and looking at and different places of Old Testament Testament. At Christmas be learning about other people of Easter. We will be different places of worship. stories from the time we will focus on the who have followed Jesus. learning about Hindu worship. Bible such as nativity story. festival of Holi. Noah, Moses and Daniel in the Lion’s Den.

History We will be learning about We will be looking at We will learn about houses and homes from what toys were like in seaside holidays in the the past. We will be our parents’, past. The children will be looking at Victorian homes grandparents’ and asked to find out about and comparing and great grandparents’ seaside holidays in the contrasting them with day. The children will past that parents and homes today. be asked to find out older family members went about the toys that on. parents and older family members played with when they were young. Geography We will be looking We will be learning about the We will be learning about at the local area U.K. with the help of Barnaby the geographical features around our school Bear. We will learn about the of seaside. We will name and learning how four parts of the U.K., capital the different parts of the to say and write cities and the oceans that seaside and compare and our name, surround the U.K. We will be contrast the seaside with address and learning to use and make our a town. telephone own maps using a key and number. compass.

Art & Design We will be We develop techniques of We will be investigating We will be looking at the investigating weaving using felt to make sculpture. We will collect work of famous artists and materials and our calendars. natural materials that can be experimenting with the using them in used for sculptures and techniques they used. We collage and collages. We will also make a will also be doing a variety weaving sculpture using clay. of art linked to our topics activities. on the seaside and growing . plants.

Design Technology We will be designing We will be learning We will be learning about homes and then about different healthy food. We will be constructing them out of mechanisms and designing, making and recycled materials. We will learning how to make evaluating a healthy fruit be learning how to use moving pictures. We salad. tools such as scissors will make a jointed carefully. We will evaluate teddy bear and our house models. Mother’s Day card using these techniques.

PE We will be We will be developing our We will be developing our skills We will be developing We will be developing our We will be developing our developing our skills in dance, games and in dance, games and our skills in dance, skills in dance, games and skills in dance, games and skills in dance, gymnastics. gymnastics. games and gymnastics. gymnastics. gymnastics. games and gymnastics.

Music We will be We will be listening to We will be listening to music by We will be listening to We will be listening to We will be listening to listening to music music by composers, composers, singing and using music by composers, music by composers, music by composers, by composers, singing and using percussion instruments. singing and using singing and using singing and using singing and using percussion instruments. percussion percussion instruments. percussion instruments. percussion instruments. instruments.

MFL Not required at Not required at KS1. Not required at KS1. Not required at KS1. Not required at KS1. Not required at KS1. KS1. PSHE Our topic is We will be looking at Our topic is “Me and My We will be looking at We will be looking at what We will be looking at “Keeping Myself “Keeping Ourselves Safe” Relationships”. We will learn “Special People and goes into our bodies, changes, moving on and Safe” and “New and “Getting on a Falling through discussion and role Places” and “Good to changes and relationships. relationships. Beginning.” We Out.” We will be exploring play. We will also be thinking be me.” We will learn will learn through this through circle time. about “Going for Goals.” about friends and discussion and friendships. role play. We will also be learning about how to contribute to the communities we live in.