Curriculum Overview 2015-2016 Year 1
Autumn Term / Spring Term / Summer TermTopic title / Meerkat or Penguin? / Toys! / Where do leaves go in Winter? / Where do we live? / Once Upon a Time… / Changes
Hook / Meerkat Mail by Emily Gravett
Postcards from places visited on holiday
Solo – Paul Geraghty / Favourite toy sharing
Toys from the past loan box (PriestHouseMuseum) / Walk around school grounds looking for signs of change since Autumn. Do any trees still have leaves? / A minibus tour of Corfe Mullen – old and new / Story teller – Graham Rogers
(Three Little Pigs) / ‘Once There Were Giants’ by Martin Waddell
Visit from grandparents
Outcome / Present information about Meerkat or Penguin – justify their choice to answer topic title / Gallery of toys made –share with grandparents to reflect on changes in toys – history link / Poems with natural artwork to accompany / Present information about Corfe Mullen to parents – learning sharing / Performance with foundation of a traditional tale / Picnic (planned by children) for parents during parent share
Trips/visitors / X / Loan box – PriestHouseMuseum / Corfe Mullen trip / Story Teller / Leeson House – Seasonal/plant theme
Literacy / Postcards – from Meerkat or Penguin to class
Poems – hot and cold theme
Non-fiction – information texts / Traditional tales & stories with familiar settings (Bear stories)
Rhymes – toy link/Christmas
Non fiction – Instructions – how to make toy / Poems – Winter link
Fairy stories – winter theme
Rhymes / Non fiction – information texts about Corfe Mullen
Non fiction – recount of trip
Fiction – Enid blyton – Famous Five and Faraway Tree series / Fairy stories/fantasy worlds – storytelling
Non-fiction – Science – materials
Instructions – how to make a house / Time travel story – going back in time to a Victorian school
Non Fiction – Instructions for food recipes (Picnic)
Numeracy
(specific links) / Properties of shape / Position and direction / Measuring – lengths of materials
Data handling – type of house / Measuring – cooking
Science / Animals
Seasonal Changes/Plant link / Everyday Materials / Plants
Seasonal changes
Animals (homes and hiberntation) / Everyday materials / Everyday materials / Seasonal changes
Plants
Animals including humans
Art / Painting techniques – focus on hot and cold colours – colour mixing
Sketching techniques – animals for information leaflets
Clay – making a meerkat or a penguin / Observational drawings
Andy Warhol – toy prints
Printing using objects
Tile printing in style of Andy Warhol / William Morris
Textiles – weaving
Andy Goldsworthy – Art with nature (link to winter poems) / Watercolour scenes
Collage scenes (field and house designs) / Collage & paper techniques – fantasy worlds
Pastel and watercolour
Music / Animal movement composition / Toy music composition / Four Seasons
DT / Split pin animals
Sliding pictures / Toy design and making (joining materials and fastenings) / X / X / Stability and structure – houses / Food – Make food for our story picnic
History / Changes within living memory (comparison of toys today and grandparents toys)
First Teddy Bears (Theodore Roosevelt) / Changes within living memory (transport)
Significant history in own locality (Roman Road – LakeFarm, Richard Lockyer)
The lives of significant individuals in the past who have contributed to national and international achievements – Enid Blyton / PSHE Link – Special People (Article 29) / Changes within living memory of own lives
Changes within grandparents lives
PSHE link Change, growing and changing (Article 36)
Geography / Location knowledge
Place knowledge
Human and physical geography
Geographical skills and fieldwork / Human and physical geography
Geographical skills and fieldwork / Human and physical geography
Geographical skills and fieldwork / Human and physical geography
Computing / *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
*use technology purposefully to create, organise, store, manipulate and retrieve digital content
*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
*recognise common uses of information technology beyond school
Programs / Internet research
Word processing
Textease – Paint
Bebots / Magic Rainforest
Word processing
Digital photographs – Photo Story / Digital photographs
Word processing
Magic Rainforest / Turtle
Clicker 5
Word processing
Digital Photographs / Scratch
Dazzle-
Symmetry tool
Digital photographs – Photo Story and Textease Movies / Word processing
Scratch
RE / Judaism: Chanukah / Christianity: The Christmas Story / Christianity: The Creation Story / Christianity: Easter - Palm Sunday / Judaism: Shabbat / Christianity: Jesus as a friend
PE / Gymnastics - Shapes/sequencing 1
Games - Football / Dance - March of the Toys
Games -Ball Skills / Gymnastics - sequence 2
Games - Multi Skills with apparatus / Games - Tadpole Tennis
Games - Invasion games / Dance–Three little pigs
Athletics / Games - Rounders French Cricket
Athletics
PBL / - / Toy design / - / - / New house for pigs / Design a meal for story picnic
SMSC / Class charter
Rights and responsibilities / Respect - for each other and animals / Friendship
Conflict resolution / Going for Goals - individual strengths as a learner / Respecting differences
Family
Respecting different beliefs
PSHE Link – Special People (Article 29) / Caring for each other - local and global communities
Diversity
Fairtrade
PSHE link Change, growing and changing (Article 36)