Year 1

Autumn 1

Autumn 2

Spring 1

Spring 2

Summer 1

Summer 2

Year 1

Autumn 1

Autumn 2

Spring 1

Spring 2

Summer 1

Summer 2

Food Glorious Food

Marvellous Maps

Intrepid Explorers

Super Scientists

Animals

PSHE: Being Me in My World

I understand the rights and responsibilities as a member of my class.
I can recognise the choices I make and understand the consequences.

PSHE: Celebrating Difference

I can identify the similarities and differences between people.
I know who to talk to if I am feeling unhappy or bullied.
I can make new friends.

PSHE: Dreams and Goals

I can set a goal and work out how to achieve it.
I can identify obstacles, work out how to overcome them and how to celebrate.

PSHE – Healthy Me

I know how to make healthy lifestyle choices
I know how to stay safe.

PSHE – Relationships

I can identify what a good friend is to me and how to act appropriately as a friend.
I can recognise my qualities as a person.

PSHE – Changing Me

I can understand the life cycles of animals and humans.
I understand some of the changes that happen to humans.

English:

To read and respond to stories and a range of texts.
To sequence events in a story.
To identify the beginning, middle and end of a story.
To write a simple sentence (formation and structure).

Texts:

The Secret Pizza Party:

Pizza Focus (Instructions)

The Gruffalo

The Highway Rat

Information Texts (How foods are made, learning about rats following Highway Rat)

Harvest Poems

English:

To hear, read and respond to poems and stories.
To begin to use correct punctuation to write simple sentences.
To read and recognise a non-fiction text.

Texts:

Firework Poems

The Jolly Postman

Information Texts

Recounts of Journeys

Story sequencing

Drama (Christmas Production)

Traditional tales & poems – Goldilocks and Jack and the Beanstalk

The Christmas Jolly Postman

English:

To read and respond to stories and a range of texts.
To plan what to sentences to write using key information and new vocabulary.
To begin to sequence sentences to form short narratives.

Texts:

Claude Goes to Sea

Lost and Found

The Great Explorer

Information Texts (Hot and Cold places)

Famous Explorers

(Shackleton, Ellen McArthur)

Fiction

English:

To read and respond to a variety of non-fiction texts and poems.
To be able to write a simple narrative with simple punctuation based on different fiction texts.

Texts:

Interview with an alien (questions)

How to wash a woolly mammoth – instructions.

Information Texts about Scientists

Recounts of experiments

Texts: ‘Beegu’, ‘Da Vinci and the Flying Boy’, ‘Camille and the Sunflowers’

English -

To be able to accurately punctuate sentences with capital letters and full stops.
To be able to use joining words ‘and’ and ‘but’.
To be able to sequence narratives and to write our own narratives with a clear beginning, middle and end.
To be able to create a plan before writing a narrative using key information and new vocabulary.

Texts:

Non-fiction texts about animals.

E.g. Pet Encyclopedia

Recount of Zoo visit

Information text about an animal (write)

Stories about animals (‘Click, Clack, Moo’ ‘Farmer Duck’, ‘Tiger Who Came to Tea, I want a pet, The Mixed Up Chameleon’)

Animal poetry

Phonics Phase 4- 5

Phonics Phase 5

(Phase 3 recap for some class members)

Phonics Phase 5

(Phase 3 recap for some class members)

Phonics Phase 5

(Phase 3 recap for some class members)

Phonics Phase 5

Maths: Place value (within 10)

Addition and Subtraction

Maths: Addition and Subtraction

Geometry - Shape

Place value (within 20)

Addition and subtraction

Place value (Within 50)

Length and height

Mass and volume

Multiplication and division

Fractions

Position and direction

Place value

Money

Time

Science: Weather / seasonal changes

observe changes across the 4 seasons
observe and describe weather associated with the seasons

Our body & senses

Food Investigations

Identify, name, draw and label the basic parts of the human body and say which part of the body is associated with each sense

Science: Weather / seasonal changes

observe changes across the 4 seasons
observe and describe weather associated with the seasons and how day length varies

Science: Weather / seasonal changes

observe changes across the 4 seasons
observe and describe weather associated with the seasons and how day length varies

Materials

Distinguish between an object and the material from which it is made
Identify, name, describe and compare a variety of everyday materials, including wood, plastic, glass, metal, water, and rock

Science – Seasonal changes

observe changes across the 4 seasons
observe and describe weather associated with the seasons and how day length varies

Plants

To identify and name a variety of common and wild plants

Science – Seasonal Changes

observe changes across the 4 seasons
observe and describe weather associated with the seasons and how day length varies

Animals

identify and name a variety of common animals including fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals
identify and name a variety of common animals that are carnivores, herbivores and omnivores
describe and compare the structure of a variety of common animals (fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals including pets)

History:

Intro to sequencing -

To identify events from our own past, present and future.
To use historical vocabulary.
To identify similarities and differences between past and present foods and everyday objects.

Texts/Area of interest:

Stone Age Food (Stone Age Boy)

Future Foods

Geography:

To identify key physical and human features of our local area.

Local area drawings/sketches

History (link to English):

To recognise and describe significant events and people.

Geography:

To identify the countries and capitals of the UK, in addition to the surrounding seas.

History:

To describe significant people in history
To identify events beyond living memory – significant scientific events

(Asima Chatterjee, Katherine Johnson)

Geography:

use simple compass directions (North, South, East and West) and locational and directional language [for example, near and far; left and right], to describe the location of features and routes on a map

Map Skills (Compass, map symbols, comparing countryside and towns, physical and human geographical features)

History:

To learn about Significant people in the past and present

(David Attenborough, Charles Darwin, Steve Irwin, Diane Fossey, Steve Backshall)

Art / D&T:

Self portraits

Fruit

Stained glass bowls

Pop art

Pumpkins

Art/DT:

Twinkl unit: Exploring ‘moving pictures traditional tales’ - Developing an understanding of basic mechanisms (sliders, levers, wheels)

Art/DT:

Twinkl unit: Exploring structures and materials

Art:

Twinkl unit: Nature Sculptures- learn about different kinds of nature sculptures and explore the work of Andy Goldsworthy as well as other environmental artists

Art:

Twinkl unit: Colour chaos – exploring colour and artists such as Piet Mondrian, Mark Rothko, Paul Klee and Kandinsky.

Art:

Twinkl unit: Let’s Sculpt - designing and creating own sculptures

RE:

How important are the groups people belong to? (For all questions see non-statutory guidance in Bucks agreed syllabus)

Harvest and belonging to groups

RE:

What makes some people important?

Important people and important places

RE:

What makes some things sacred to some groups of people?

Special things

R.E -

What makes some stories so important to different people?

Special books

R.E -

Why is it important to look after our world?

Looking after our world

R.E -

Why do we celebrate important occasions?

Special occasions

ICT:

Twinkl Y1

Computer skills

using technology purposefully to manipulate and retrieve

ICT:

Twinkl Y1

Programming toys

algorithms and what they are

ICT:

Twinkl Y1

Online safety and digital literacy skills

ICT:

Twinkl Y1

Painting – learning to use a painting application and the different features

ICT:

Twinkl Y1

Scratch – basic principles of coding

ICT:

Twinkl Y1

Using and applying

(recap and progression of all skills taught throughout the year)

Music:

Sing Up Y1 Term 1

Active listening (movement), beat,

march, timbre, music from a film

Music:

Sing Up Y1 Term 1

Timbre, pitch, structure, graphic

symbols, classical music, dynamics,

rhyme

Music:

Sing Up Y1 Term 2

Beat, ostinato, pitched/unpitched

patterns, mi-re-do active listening 20^th century classical music

Music:

Sing Up Y1 Term 2

Question and answer, timbre, graphic score, beat, rests, rhythm patterns, higher/

lower

Music:

Sing Up Y1 Term 3

Active listening , electronic music, Mood, tempo, dynamics, rhythm, dot

notation

Music:

Sing Up Y1 Term 3

Beat, march, Jig

Call-and-response, tuned percussion

skills, rhythm and syllables, pitch.

PE: Ball skills / multi skills

P:E: Hockey / dance tango

PE: Bat and ball skills / gymnastics

P.E - Team games / tennis

P.E - Team games / golf

P.E - Athletics / team building sports day activities

Eco: Recycling – link to history sorting packaging and containers

Eco: Looking after local area

Eco – sustainable travel and pollution

Eco – Growing sunflowers

Eco – Endangered animals WWF

Play – Weekly Tuff Spot Activities linked with Topic and Core Subjects

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