Key Stage One

Key Skills

Key Stage 1

In Science we will:

  • Think about ‘What will happen if…….?’
  • Ask questions that we can test
  • Make suggestions for our investigation plan
  • Carry out an investigation using equipment and record our findings
  • Display our results in different ways such as photographs, charts and tables
  • Describe the information we have collected
  • Compare results with others
  • Give a reason why something has happened

In ICT we will:

  • Find and talk about information from different sources
  • Give instructions to make things happen
  • Explore models and simulations
  • Communicate in different ways e.g. Presentations, blogs, texts, images and sounds
  • Use ICT to draft and try things out on screen
  • Evaluate our work and think of ways to make it better
  • Begin to understand how ICT helps us
  • Become aware of the need to be safe and responsible online

In Art we will:

  • Explore and develop our ideas by drawing, collecting ideas and talking about them
  • Try out and use a range of materials and tools for drawing, painting collage, textiles, digital,

media and printing

  • Think and talk about our ideas as we work so that we can change things if we want to
  • Learn and understand about colour, line, texture and shape by exploring them
  • Look at and talk about the work of other artists

In Design and Technology we will

  • Investigate things and say how they work, what they do and what they are made of
  • Plan what to make and be able to tell someone else about it
  • Make things from our plans and be able to say what has or has not worked well and why
  • Work with tools and equipment safely to measure and mark, cut and shape, join and

combine and finish materials

  • Learn about how to use different materials and mechanisms

In Geography we will:

  • Find out about and describe different places by visiting them and/or looking at information

about them

  • Identify physical and human features in different places
  • Investigate how and why places are changing
  • Practice fieldwork skills inside and outside the school
  • Use maps, globes and plans to help us carry out investigations
  • Make maps and plans of real and imaginary places

In History we will:

  • Learn to place events and objects in time order
  • Find out what happened to people in the past and how things have changed
  • Find out about the past from different historical sources
  • Ask questions about the past and answer them giving reasons
  • Share the information we have found out

In Music we will:

  • Perform with our voices and musical instruments in lots of different ways
  • Explore and choose sounds and rhythms to make some music of our own
  • Make music for different moods or events
  • Listen to and talk about our own music thinking of ways to make it better
  • Listen to and move to music and describe how it makes us feel

In PSHE we will:

  • Learn about ourselves and others
  • Develop positive relationships
  • Understand our own feelings and the feelings of others
  • Begin to think for ourselves and listen to others
  • Understand that we have differences and similarities
  • Learn and understand about choices and how we choose
  • Learn about keeping safe and healthier
  • Understand about our growing bodies and feel good about ourselves
  • Begin to understand about money and think about our future lives

In Physical Education we will:

  • Learn the skills we need to play games, do gymnastics and dance
  • Learn that PE and sport are part of being healthy
  • Learn to think about how we use our body in different activities
  • In games, think about how to plan to beat the opponent
  • In gym, think about how to make our actions precise and accurate
  • In dance, think about how to tell a story through movement