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

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

Where the Wild Things are

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

-Retell narrative – Writing to Entertain

-Character Description

-Storymap

Focus Text

Bog Baby

Traction Man

The Jolly Christmas Postman

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

-Instructions Writing to Inform

-Writing a list

-Writing a diary

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:

Number and Place Value

Topic:

Number and Place Value

Addition and Subtraction

Geometry

Topic: 

Geometry

Number and Place Value

Topic:

Addition and Subtraction

Number Facts

Topic:

Number and Place Value

Number Facts

Topic:

Position and Direction

Time

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

-use technology safely and respectfully, keeping personal information private; identify where to go for help and support when they have concerns about content or contact on the internet or other online technologies

Set children up with Teach Your Monster to Read’

-use technology purposefully to create, organise, store, manipulate and retrieve digital content

-recognise common uses of information technology beyond school

Cross-curricular

-English Traction Man (PoR text)

Taking photos

Editing photos

-Arranging objects for images

-Taking photos for comic strips

-Adding speech and thought bubbles to images using Strip Design app.

-use technology safely and respectfully, keeping personal information private; identify where to go for help and support when they have concerns about content or contact on the internet or other online technologies

e-safety

-understand what algorithms are, how they are implemented as programs on digital devices, and that programs execute by following precise and unambiguous instructions

-create and debug simple programs

-use logical reasoning to predict the behaviour of simple programs

Programming/algorithms

Using Beebots

understand what algorithms are, how they are implemented as programs on digital devices, and that programs execute by following precise and unambiguous instructions

-create and debug simple programs

-use logical reasoning to predict the behaviour of simple programs

Programming/algorithms

Using Beebots

use technology purposefully to create, organise, store, manipulate and retrieve digital content

-recognise common uses of information technology beyond school

Multimedia/photography with nature/art focus

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:

Games

Gymnastics

Topic:

Games

Dance

Topic:

Games

Gymnstics

Topic:

Games

Dance

Topic:

Athletics

Gymnastics

Topic:

Games

Dance

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:

Listening and Appraising

Topic:

Hey You!

Topic:

Rhythm In The Way We Walk and Banana Rap

Topic:

In The Groove

Topic:

Round and Round

Topic:

Your Imagination