Year 1 Curriculum Overview 2013- 2014

Reception Curriculum Overview 2014- 2015

Theme Journeys Toys Dinosaurs Animals Space The Seaside

Michaelmas 1 Michaelmas 2 Lent 1 Lent 2 Summer 1 Summer 2

In this unit of work, In this unit of work, In this unit of work, In this unit of work, In this unit of work, In this unit of work, we will… we will… we will… we will… we will… we will… Personal Social SEAL theme SEAL theme SEAL theme SEAL theme SEAL theme SEAL theme and Emotional New Beginnings Getting on and falling Going for goals Relationships Changes Development out Good to be me PSHE/Circle Time

Physical Various Gross and Multiskills including Multiskills including Multi skills including Games skills including Games skills incl Development fine motor activities spatial awareness, sending, aiming, bouncing, throwing rounders, cricket and rounders, cricket and basic motor skills and tracking and receiving and striking tennis tennis Write Dance co-ordination and Swimming Swimming control Sports day practise Sports day practise Gymnastics including Gymnastics including Dance including body spatial and body exploring shapes – Dance including actions, body parts awareness, balance, tuck, star, straight and responding to different and travelling jumps, travelling sequences moods and emotions balance and rolls Communication Use holiday stories to; Describe and write Use imagination to Make class book Use poetry to develop Imagine how a and Language order events, begin to labels for toys, describe being in an writing simple rhyming skills, create character feels and write some sounds develop questioning egg, write labels and sentences, ask a fictional character express this in writing, and words, design and discussion skills, simple sentences relevant questions to using descriptive predict the ending of a Literacy tickets, retell stories begin to explore a including a dinosaur parent bathing baby, language, use non- story, write suitable and use imagination wider variety of texts, speech bubble and sequence events of fiction books to find captions and labels for to recreate roles of invent a new toy dinosaur food. Use bath time, create and information on planets a sea shore animals on the train, character and act out non-fiction texts to find use lists, distinguish and make information book, use descriptive a story in sequence, information on between fact and comparisons between imagine an experience language to describe write labels for a dinosaurs and fossils fiction, make up and Earth and the moon, and describe in words, story scenes and write favourite toy, develop Design an imaginary act out their own talk about different take orders for the ice speech bubbles rhyming skills land stories books and share cream parlour! opinions Numeracy Seasons and days of Estimating, recognise Comparing and Writing numbers, Count down from Make 3D shapes from the week, adding and simple patterns and measuring lengths of focusing on teen 10/20 in rocket playdough and paper, subtracting one more, sort into categories, a dinosaur footprint, numbers, directional launches, look at 2D find a 3D shape from understand a simple count down from 10, use ordinal language, and positional faces compared to 3D descriptions, count in addition sentence understand length and count beyond 10 and language when incl. The moon, 2’s, identify coins and through taking a create simple class match numerals, find bathing a baby, complete a moon use to buy milk and family on holiday, graph, make own practical ways of estimating and phase and other fruit at Forest School, count to 10 and counting book to aid finding totals, using comparing 2 numbers patterns, 2D shapes addition and writing beyond, order objects 1:1 correspondence subtraction to count and sets saying which review and look at simple number and make repeating and number back, explore 2D has more/less, stars and different sentences, number patterns, recognising constancy, developing shapes by cutting capacity and weight, ways to make them bonds to 10 2 and 3D shapes addition, paper in different using the language of using other 2D distinguishing 3D ways, use number time, day and night shapes, using planets shapes and their sentences and stories time animals, what begin to subtract by properties for addition and can you do in a taking objects away number bonds to 6 minute challenge? from a set and counting back Understanding Investigation Investigation Investigation Investigation Investigation Investigation the World afternoon – exploring afternoon – exploring afternoon – growing afternoon –life cycles, afternoon – light and afternoon – magnets, changes (malleable) changes (ice) and (planting, dinosaur floating and sinking dark (Space, moon reversible changes (UW) and children’s children’s interests eggs, crystals) and and children’s experiment) (toast) and children’s interests Forest School children’s interests interests Forest School interests Forest School Firework and Forest School Forest School Animals topic Forest School Journey activities remembrance Winter activities Spring activities Visit to zoo farm Beach visit – fossil using globe and world Christmas and Dinosaur topic, Growing activities Jewish festival and hunting map celebrations around exploration of fossils Easter visitor Healthy eating, fruit Diwali activities the world and museum visit Summer activities tasting Autumn activities Chinese New Year

ICT (UW) ICT in the world Using computers – Audio; using Exploring using floor Exploring letters, Exploring floor robots around us including a develop mouse and microphones and robots such as Bee words and text Copying and enlarging technology walk keyboard skills using recording devices bots, Lego remote Multimedia – story Using computers and simple programs Using cameras and control car and other making log cabin rules video cameras toys

RS (UW) Harvest. The Christmas Story Chinese New Year Easter Jewish Passover Noah

Diwali Jesus – A friend to children Expressive Art Seasonal art work Seasonal art work – Seasonal art work Seasonal art work Seasonal art work Seasonal art work and Design related to Autumn and observational Forest School art work Forest School art work Forest School art work Forest School art work apple harvest snowdrop drawings Exploratory art, colour Exploratory art, colour Exploratory art, colour Exploratory art, colour (EAD) Diwali – clay lamps, Exploratory art, colour mixing, child initiated mixing, child initiated mixing, child initiated mixing, child initiated mehndi patterns and mixing, child initiated activities activities activities activities rangoli patterns activities Chinese new year, Daffodil observational Space topic, Oliver Seaside topic, beach Exploratory art, colour Forest School art work painting symbols, painting Jeffers pictures, new scenes, ice creams, mixing, child initiated Christmas cards lucky envelopes, Animal topic, planet design, 3d sea scapes. activities Patterned wrapping lanterns observational aliens and rockets Holiday collage paper Dinosaur topic, drawings of animals Forest School art work Calendars – marbling dinosaur eggs, seen on trip dinosaur large Easter art work, cards, landscape painting. eggs. Music (EAD) Special People – beat Special People – beat Going Places – high Growth and Change – Senses - timbre Noah rap, summer and tempo and tempo and low loud and quiet show Christmas songs and Dinosaur songs nativity Role play areas Beach hut home Beach hut home Beach hut home Beach hut home Beach hut home Beach hut home

Travel agents/airport Santa’s workshop Dinosaur dig Pet shop/vet Space station/shuttle Seaside cafe Visits and Charlton Apple Special Visitor Dinosaur Museum Noah’s Ark Zoo Farm @Bristol planetarium Watchet beach on Visitors orchard steam train Baby to visit for bath!