Curriculum Overview for Year 1

	Autumn In the Woods London’s Burning!	Spring Flat Stanley Castles	Summer The Seaside Grace Darling
English	Little Red Riding Hood  Features of a warning tale  Labels and captions  List  Descriptive language  Questioning and hot seating  Revolting rhymes - poetry	Flat Stanley  Recount  Letters  Instructions  Descriptive language  Fact file  Elephant dance – poetry	The Lighthouse keeper’s lunch  Features of a losing tale  Post cards  Instructions  Diary entry  Poetry –The Sea (John Foster)
English	Toby and the Great Fire of London  Features of a journey tale  Descriptive language  Poetry – onomatopoeia, shape poem – flame Spelling, punctuation and grammar taught throughout. Reading and comprehension at beginning of topics.	Sword in the Stone  Features of a rags to riches tale  Non-chronological report- castle fact file Spelling, punctuation and grammar taught throughout. Reading and comprehension at beginning of topics.	The Storm Whale  Features of a meeting tale  Newspaper report  Biography Spelling, punctuation and grammar taught throughout. Reading and comprehension at beginning of topics.
Mathematics	Place Value (within 10) Addition and subtraction Shape Place Value (within 20) Measurement: Time	Addition and subtraction (Within 20) Place Value (Within 50) Multiples of 2, 5 and 10 Measurement: Length and Heights Measurement: Weight and Volume Measurement: Money Weekly mental maths tests	Multiplication and division (reinforce multiples of 2, 5 and 10to be included) Number: Fractions Geometry: Position and direction Measurement: money Measurement: Time Weekly mental maths tests
Science	Animals including humans- labelling parts of the human body, exploring the five senses (performing simple tests).	Animals and habitats- identifying and classifying. Carnivores, herbivores and omnivores. Structure of common animals. Link to animals around the world.	Plants- identifying parts of a plant, types of plants and growing (gathering and recording data to help answer questions).
Science	Materials- types, sorting, properties, grouping and applying materials -twisting and bending. Seasonal changes	Working scientifically Observe changes Ask simple questions Seasonal changes	Scientific enquiry and investigation- problem solving (STEM investigations) Asking/answering questions. Seasonal changes
History	Stuarts  To explore events beyond living memory that are significant nationally or globally - The Great Fire of London.	Medieval  Lives of significant individuals – William the Conqueror  Events beyond living memory – Medieval times	Victorian Era  Lives of significant individuals- Grace Darling.  Local study- historical events, people and places- SS Stanley.
Geography	 Locational knowledge  Geographical skills and fieldwork  Map work  Local area- school grounds  Countries and major cities	 Physical and human geography  Map work – maps, atlases and compass  Vocabulary of physical features.	 Place knowledge  Compare an EU and non-EU country.  Mapwork - local area.
Art/DT	 Woodland art using natural materials  Christmas crafts  Clay sculptures (Christmas)  Sketching Artists- John Hayls and William Hogarth	 Flat Stanley biscuits  Famous landmarks around the world  Artists around the world  Kites  Create a castle  Design and make a shield Artists- Claude Monet, Henry Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Andy Warhol and Paul Klee	 Create an island  Real life drawing- flowers/plants  Using techniques from different artists  Using different materials- sea creatures Artists- Vincent van Gogh and Kate Durdy
Computing	 An introduction to digital art  Exploring digital sound  Doodle Maths	 Purple mash coding  Making multimedia stories  Action algorithms  Doodle Maths	 Exploring machines we control  Programming direction  Doodle Maths
PE	 Basic skills- travelling, balancing- apparatus.  Dance- GFoL	 Gymnastics  Speed and agility, throwing and catching - circuits.	 Team and ball games- rounders, football, netball.
Music	 London’s Burning- Voices to express- singing, chants and rhymes.  Listen and concentrate during live music- Tudor music  Select and combine sounds- dimension of music.	Charanga unit- In the groove & Round and round  Voices to express- singing, chants and rhymes.  Play tuned and un-tuned instruments- glockenspiel  Listen and concentrate during live music.  Select and combine sounds- dimension of music.	Charanga unit- Your imagination  Sea shanties- voices to express- singing, chants and rhymes.  Play tuned and un-tuned instruments  Listen and concentrate during live music.  Select and combine sounds- dimension of music.
PSHE	 Autumn 1 – New Beginnings  Autumn 2- Say no to bullying - Getting on and falling out	 Spring 1- Going for goals  Spring 2- Good to be me	 Summer 1 – Relationships  Summer 2 - Changes
RE	 Christianity in the UK  Christianity symbols  Class prayer  Christianity celebrations  Christmas	 Hinduism  Religious festivals including Chinese New Year, Holi and Easter.  Buddhism	 Islam - Eid  Sikhism
Commando Joe	The Great Fire of London- escape route	Castles- help the knight save the princess	The Lighthouse Keeper’s Lunch- save Mr Grinling’s food from the seagulls!