Medium Term PlanningYear 1: Spring 1
Topic Question: Where can we find a winter wonderland?
1 / WB: 3.1.18
Introduction to topic
Phonics focus / What do we already know?
What do we want to know?
Following instructions and identifying imperative verbs to make a penguin (for display) / Time pre-assessments
Introduction to time - what is time? / 3 day week
2 / WB: 8.1.18
Lost and Found
Missing posters around the classroom. Children to work together to read and find the information – who is missing? What is he like? What clues have we been given (adjectives)? CW receives an email with a link to a story / T focus
Penguin Fact File – all about me
T independent
Penguin research
TA focus
Suitcase for the South Pole – labels
TA independent
Story retell/role play area / T focus
Practically showing the time
T independent
Time bingo
TA focus
Draw 3 times and write/draw what you would be doing at that time e.g. 12 o’clock – dinner time.
TA independent
Time ordering sheet
3 / WB: 15.1.18
Lost and Found
Going on a journey – role play taking the same journey as the boy and the penguin. Look at the map and see the countries that we pass, use videos to show the ocean and the weather getting colder and more dangerous. How do we feel? When we eventually arrive what can we see? What can we feel? Think about all of our senses. / T focus
A postcard home from the South Pole
T independent
Ordering the story of Lost and Found
TA focus
The journey home story map – creative writing
TA independent
Speech bubbles for Penguin at different parts of the story / T focus
‘My day’ diary
T independent
Ordering times of the day (pictures of morning/afternoon etc.)
TA focus
Problems involving time
TA independent
Ordering the days of the week and months of the year
4 / WB: 22.1.18
Lost and Found creative writing week
Completed books to go into the reading area / Children to use their story maps from the previous week to write their own extension to the story. Each day to be highly modelled before the children go to write a part of their story.
Written in a book template complete with illustrations, front cover and blurb. / T focus
What is my number? (Images of dienes)
T independent
Show 2 different ways of making a number to 50 using dienes.
TA focus
Making a number with shapes that represent different amounts
TA independent
Dienes bingo with numbers
5 / WB: 29.1.18
Penguin Small
Newspaper report on the IWB showcasing a newly discovered animal! / T independent
Create your own animal and think of an imaginative name
T focus
Newspaper report about a new animal – metaphors
TA focus
The perfect habitat design
TA independent
Switcheroozoo/draw new animal on iPads / T focus
Addition/subtraction using a key
T independent
Addition/subtraction using dienes
TA focus
Missing number addition/subtraction
TA independent
Recording as many number sentences as you can using numbers 0-3.
6 / WB: 5.2.18
Penguin Small
A non-fiction book about animals of the polar regions but the words are missing! / T focus
Choose a polar animal to write a non-fiction page on
T independent
Illustrate non-fiction page
TA focus
Polar animal reading comprehension activity
TA independent
Polar animals have, eat, can… / T focus
Comparing lengths of string using patterns
T independent
Ordering by length and labelling
TA focus
Ordering by height and labelling
TA independent
Building towers that are taller/shorter than…
7 / WB: 12.2.18
A selection of non-fiction texts
A letter from Penguintelling us about the dangers of global warming and the effects it is having on the animals in polar regions. How can we help them? / T focus
Comprehension activity from the newspaper report
T independent
Poster about looking after our planet
TA focus
Phonics activities and phonic assessments
TA independent
Phonic activities / T focus
Measuring lengths of objects using cm
T independent
Practically measuring lengths
TA focus
Measuring the heights of the children
TA independent
Practically measuring heights
Science (PPA)
/ Computing / History / Geography / Art / DT / Music / PE / RE/PSHE
1 / PPA covered by LT / Facts about KenojuakAshevak / North and South Pole – locating on a globe/map.
David Attenborough
Appropriate clothing for cold places. / Hot and cold colours
KenojuakAshevak – Inuit art / ARTIS / Multi-skills
- football / Sacred places
2 / PPA covered by LT
How animals survive the extreme weather in polar regions. / Algorithms / Animals that can be found in the polar regions and how they adapt/survive. / ARTIS / Multi-skills
- football
Gymnastics with coaches / Sacred places
3 / PPA covered by LT
Materials linked with DT lesson. / Algorithms / A French afternoon!
We stopped off in France on the way back from the South Pole. French songs, French food tasting, learn some French and play French games. / How could we cross the Arctic sea? Design and make a boat. / ARTIS / Multi-skills
- football
Gymnastics with coaches / Sacred places
4 / PPA covered by LT / Algorithms / Comparing polar regions with the UK.
/ ARTIS
Storm and calm body percussion / Multi-skills
- football
Gymnastics with coaches / Christian beliefs
5 / PPA covered by LT
Introduce ice test - predictions / Smartie the Penguin E-safety / Creating symbols to represent the weather.
Seasons in polar regions. / ARTIS / Multi-skills
- football
Gymnastics with coaches / Christian beliefs
6 / PPA covered by LT
Ice test – how can we stop the ice from melting? / Algorithms / Polar artwork / ARTIS / Multi-skills
- football
Gymnastics with coaches / Christian beliefs
7 / PPA covered by LT / Create a poster / Looking after our planet. / ARTIS / Multi-skills
- football
Gymnastics with coaches / Christian beliefs