Year One Curriculum Overview

Autumn 1

Marvellous Me!

Autumn 2

Toys

Spring 1

Cold Places

Spring 2

Space

Summer 1

Rainforest

Summer 2

Holidays

Religion

Unit 1

Domestic Church

Unit 2

Baptism

Unit 4 Local Church:

Special People.

Unit 3 Advent

Waiting

Heroes & Heroines

All Saints/All Souls Week

Islam

Unit 5 Eucharist

Meals. Mass: Jesus’ special time

Unit 6 Lent/Easter Giving / Change. Lent: a time for change’

Unit 7 Pentecost/Serving Holidays and Holy Days

Unit 8 Reconciliation /Inter-relating

Being Sorry. God helps us to choose well

Unit 9 Universal Church

Neighbours share God’s World

English

Focus Text

Poems To Perform

Bog Baby

Writing Outcomes

- Performance Poetry

- Descriptive vocabulary and phrase collections

- Poems inspired by the collection:

- Innovated verses of ‘Rhythm of Life’

- Fresh lines for ‘The Sound Collector’

- Class anthologies

- List Poem - Poetry

- Non-chronological Report

- Retell narrative – Writing to Entertain

- Instructions – Writing to Inform

Focus Text

Traction Man

Writing Outcomes

- Annotated Drawings

- Captions

- Drawings of characters and scenes

- Narrative Sentences – Writing to Entertain

- Speech and Thought Bubble dialogue

- Character Descriptions – Writing to Entertain

- Narrative in role

- Book review

- Own story ideas

- Storyboard (oral storytelling)

- Toy Fact file Writing to Inform

Focus Text

Emperor’s Egg

Writing Outcomes

Extended vocabulary and language - annotations on artwork

Setting description

Information Text – Writing to Inform

Post card home from Antarctica

Free verse poem - Poetry

Focus Text

Beegu

Writing Outcomes

Character descriptions – Writing to Entertain

Diary entry writing in role as Beegu Instruction writing – Writing to Inform

Free verse poetry 

Letter Writing

Guide to Earth – Writing to Inform

Focus Text

One Day on Our Blue Planet

Writing Outcomes

Captions and sentences

Setting description – Writing to Entertain

Factfile (based on rainforest animals) – Writing to Inform

Free Verse Poems - Poetry

Action description

Focus Text

The Smartest Giant in Town

Out and about: A book of poems

Writing Outcomes

Wanted poster describing a giant

Character description

Narrative re-tell- storyboard – Writing to Entertain

List poem - Poetry

Letter

Diary entry

Performance poetry based on the seaside

Maths

Topic:

Place value

Addition & Subtraction

Topic:

Addition and Subtraction

Geometry Shape

Place Value

Measurement

Reasoning & problem solving

Topic: 

Place Value

Counting in multiples of 2s, 5s, 10s

Multiplication and Division

Halves and doubles

Topic:

Addition and Subtraction

T and O not crossing

Measurement

& comparison across all measures

Reasoning & problem solving

Topic:

Place Value

Partitioning 2 digit numbers into T and O

Fractions

Halves and Quarters

Solve 1 step problems

Topic:

Multiplication and Division

Solve 1 step problems

Arrays

Addition and Subtraction Crossing tens & facts within 20

1 step number problems

Geometry and Time

O’clock Half past

Science

Topic:

Animals including humans

SOS Topic 1

Who Am I?

Topic:

Animals including humans

SOS Topic 2

Celebrations

Topic:

Animals Including Humans

Everyday Materials

SOS Topic:

Polar places

Topic:

Plants, Animals including humans

Seasonal changes

SOS Topic:

Plants and animals where we live

Topic:

Plants

Animals including humans

Everyday Materials

SOS Topic:

On Safari

Topic:

Animals including humans

Everyday materials

SOS Topic:

Holidays

Computing

Topic:

Digital Literacy

‘There’s An App For That’

Topic:

Digital Literacy

‘There’s An App For That’

Topic:

Recognise Common Uses of Information Technology

Purple Mash

Topic:

Use Technology Purposefully

Use a camera to take and crop pictures

Record and play back sound.

Topic:

Use Technology Purposefully

Use iPads – iCananimate to create a flipbook style short video showing seasonal changes

Topic:

Use Technology Purposefully

Photograph Sandwich making process and use iPads (Strip Design) to create pictorial instructions

Topic

Geography

Our Local Area

History

Family Trees

History

Toys – Changes within Living Memory

Geography

Antarctica Comparison 

History

Significant people in History - Neil Armstrong & Tim Peake

Geography

Continents and maps

Contrasting locality of the Rainforests

Geography

UK place knowledge

History

British Seaside Holidays in the past

PE

Topic:

‘Ready, Set, Go!’

Topic:

‘Ready, Set, Go-

Practice Makes Perfect!’

Topic:

Dance

Topic:

Invasion games- throwing, catching and interception

Topic:

Rounders

Football 

Topic:

Athletics

Art/DT

Topic:

Portraits and Picasso

Topic:

Model wooden toy

Topic:

Mixing paints – colours, shades & tints

Topic:

Making rockets

Topic:

Observational drawing natural object

Outdoor natural art

Topic:

Artist study-

Lowry

Music

Topic:

Music Safari

Topic:

Music Safari

Topic:

There’s an App for That: each session, children introduced to a new musical concept including pitch, tempo, dynamics, and rhythm.

Topic:

There’s an App for That: Focus on pitch, tempo, dynamics, and rhythm and then explore these using musical apps

Topic:

Graphic Notation Students familiarise themselves with the concept of notation through both group exercises and the use of the app Loopimal.

Topic:

Graphic Notation Students explore how they can represent musical sounds in the form of small pictures and symbols.