Year 1 Curriculum Plan

Aut 1 Aut 2 Spring 1 Spring 2 Summer 1 Summer 2 It’s Super to be Let There be It’s a Wild World Let’s Investigate I will survive! Summer Me! Light (5 weeks) (6 weeks) (5 weeks) Spectacular (7 weeks) (7 weeks) (7 weeks)

Overview Through transition Pupils explore a Inspired by Chinese Investigating the Celebrating St Embracing the activities pupils range of New Year and ‘The disaster of The George’s Day pupils changing season and explore why it is celebrations - Great Animal Race’ Titanic, pupils begin learn about the approaching summer super to be them, Diwali, Bonfire story, pupils to explore Patron Saint of holidays, pupils identifying their Night, The First investigate and materials, designing England, progressing explore how the favourite Moon Landing and categorise a range and making their to locate countries in season is celebrated superheroes and Nativity - leading of animals and own boats. the UK and the - learning about the making links to real to reflection on research the living weather patterns - Summer Solstice and life superheroes. the changing legend Sir David linking this to what the History of season and the Attenborough. plants need to grow. Carnival, making impact on animals. links to their own sense.

Trips / Autumn walk to Dell farm trip- link to Animal EDUtainment Dress as a Mountfitchet Castle - Gullivers Land / near animal habitats and workshop Scientist/Parent links to St George’s Day age appropriate theme experiences hibernation Science Workshop park Dress as a Character Winter walk to from George and the Fayre activities Wardown Park Dragon and Re-enact the Story

Stockwood Discovery Centre - ‘Life in the Garden’

Year 1 Curriculum Plan

Science Animals including Animals including Animals including humans Materials Plants- names and Animals including humans humans -animal/ body parts -distinguish between an structures humans -animal/ body parts -identify and name a Identify and name a object and the material Identify and name a -animal/ body parts draw and label the basic variety of common variety of common from which it is made variety of common wild draw and label the basic parts of the human animals including fish, animals that are -identify and name a and garden plants, parts of the human body body- label body parts. amphibians, reptiles, carnivores, herbivores variety of everyday including deciduous and and say which are birds and mammals - and omnivores - link to materials, including evergreen trees. associated with each Continuous theme- nocturnal animals and Chinese New Year and wood, plastic, glass, Identify and describe the sense - link to Carnival Seasonal Changes: habitats (Dell farm the story of the Great metal, water, and rock basic structure of a writing - I can hear, I Observe changes across trip) Animal Race. -describe the simple variety of common can smell etc. the four seasons. physical properties of a flowering plants, including Continuous theme- variety of everyday trees - grow plants. Continuous theme- Observe and describe Seasonal Changes: Continuous theme- materials Seasonal Changes: weather associated Observe changes Seasonal Changes: -compare and group Continuous theme- Observe changes across with the seasons and across the four Observe changes across together a variety of Seasonal Changes: the four seasons. how day length varies- seasons. the four seasons. everyday materials on Observe changes across season’s tree. Autumn the basis of their the four seasons. Observe and describe simple physical walk to Wardown Park Observe and describe Observe and describe weather associated with properties - material weather associated weather associated with Observe and describe the seasons and how day hunt, material bears with the seasons and the seasons and how day weather associated with length varies how day length varies length varies the seasons and how day - Winter walk to Continuous theme- length varies Wardown Park Seasonal Changes: Observe changes across the four seasons.

Observe and describe weather associated with the seasons and how day length varies

Geography Use aerial photographs understand geographical Name and locate the Name, locate and identify Use world maps, atlases and plan perspectives to similarities and world’s seven continents characteristics of the and globes to identify recognise landmarks differences through and five oceans - four countries of the UK the United Kingdom and and basic human and studying the human and Titanic and its surrounding seas its countries, as well as

Year 1 Curriculum Plan

physical features; physical geography of a (from 2015- 16) the countries, devise a simple map; and small area of the United Use simple compass Identify seasonal and continents and oceans use and construct basic Kingdom, and of a small directions (North, daily weather patterns in studied at this key symbols in a key- Design area in a contrasting South, East and West) in the UK- Labelling map stage - link to carnivals key and map non-European country- and locational and of UK using weather and summer Luton compared to directional language symbols celebrations around David Attenboroughs [for example, near and the world Travels far; left and right], to describe the location of features and routes on a map - Titanic

History The lives of The lives of significant Events beyond living Changes within living Significant historical significant individuals individuals in the past memory- that are memory. Where events, people and in the past who have who have contributed to significant nationally/ appropriate, these should places in their own contributed to national and globally- Titanic be used to reveal aspects locality- Luton Carnival national and international of change in national life - international achievements - Sir Royal Family, previous achievements - The David Attenborough Kings and Queens First Moon Landing

Art Drawing Painting Collage Textiles Painting Draw lines of different Use thick and thin Use a combination of Join materials using glue Mix primary colours to sizes and thicknesses brushes - Firework materials that are cut, and or stitch make secondary- Colour Colour ( own work) patterns torn and glued Use dip dye techniques Wheel neatly following lines - Sort and arrange Puppets Leaf artwork Sculpture materials Use clay Mix materials to create Use techniques such texture. - as rolling and cutting, Large scale artwork moulding and carving - Chinese Diva lamps dragons/animals

Design Food Mechanisms Materials Generate, develop, Textiles Food Measure and weigh Create products using Demonstrate a range of model and communicate Shape textiles using Assemble and cook Technology using measuring cups - levers, wheels and cutting, shaping their ideas through templates ingredients -

Year 1 Curriculum Plan

Making bread winding mechanisms - techniques ( such as talking and drawing Join textiles using running Fairground snack Christmas cards tearing, cutting, folding -select from and use a stitch and curling) wide range of materials Colour and decorate Cut materials safely according to their textiles using a number of using tools provided - characteristics techniques ( dyeing, Large scale artwork -evaluate their ideas adding sequins or Chinese and products - Design, printing) - St George dragons/animals make and evaluate a character puppet boat

Computing 1.3 We are painters - 1.6 We are 1.4 We are collectors - 1.1 We are treasure 1.5 We are storytellers - 1.2 We are TV chefs - Illustrating an eBook- celebrating - Creating Finding images using the hunters - Using Producing a talking book - Filming the steps of a (Rising Stars Book Creator a card electronically- web - Animals Poster programmable toys - Book Creator- George recipe- Tough Cams Scheme) Christmas cards Titanic Map and the Dragon

RE (new Muslim Faith- link to Hindu and Sikh Faith- Christian Faith- Link to Eid celebrations Link to Diwali Easter celebrations scheme - to be celebrations added) Christian Faith- link to Christmas celebrations

Music Use their voices Use their voices Play tuned and untuned Play tuned and untuned Experiment with, create, Experiment with, expressively and expressively and instruments musically- instruments musically- select and combine sounds create, select and creatively by singing creatively by singing Percussion Glockenspiels using the inter-related combine sounds using songs and speaking songs and speaking dimensions of music. the inter-related chants and rhymes- chants and rhymes- dimensions of music. Songs about ourselves Lights, Camel, Action! Nativity.