Year 1 - Class 3 Possibilities - Environment – Knowledge of the World – Enquiry

Autumn 1 Alphabet Zoo / Spring 1 Light & Dark / Summer 1 Take a Closer Look
Literacy / Handa’s Surprise / Literacy / ‘Peace At Last’ / Literacy / The Bog Baby
Science
Topic Focus
Ask it / Animals
  • Identifying, classifying and observing animals.
  • Looking at growth, basic needs, exercise, food and hygiene
/ Science
Topic Focus / Light & Dark
  • Light sources
  • Reflections
/ Science
Topic Focus / Materials
  • Materials and their uses
  • Identifying materials in school environment and sorting them in accordance with different criteria
  • Scientific investigation – which materials are most appropriate for specific tasks

Computing / Information Technology / Computing / Computer Science / Computing / Digital Literacy
Art / Mixed media – animal skins
Collages of animal habitats (hot vs cold) / Art / Observational Art – Paintings
Colour Mixing – Colour wheels / Art / Exploring texture – collage
D & T / Designing and making a picture with a moving part / D & T /
  • Investigating and designing light boxes
/ D & T / Designing and making a bog baby (moving part, using different methods of joining materials)
Music / Concentration and listening skills – animal sounds
Flight of the Bumblebee - Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Carnival of the animals – Saint-Saens / Music / Rhythm – African focus
Tempo and Melody – ‘Imagine’
Singing – ‘It’s Winter time’ ‘Colours & Patterns’ / Music /
  • Playing instruments made from different materials and exploring what sound different instruments make.
  • Investigating sound by ‘playing’ different materials e.g. wood, metal, brick, sand, rice
  • Playing imaginatively & creatively - Stomp! the musical

PE / First Steps PE / PE / First Steps PE / PE / First Steps PE
RE / Harvest, Creation and Thanksgiving / RE / Special Places – visit to church / RE / Special Moments – Jewish festival of Pesach
  • Harvest Festival & Macmillan Coffee morning
  • Dog Obedience Training & Guide Dog presentation
  • Yorkshire Wildlife Park
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  • Pantomime
  • Chinese New Year
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  • Performance – The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe
  • National Smile Month/Oral hygiene

Autumn 2 Come Rain or Shine / Spring 2 Now & Then / Summer 2 I do like to be beside the Seaside
Literacy / Goldilocks and the Three Bears / Literacy / The Ugly Duckling / Literacy / ‘Lighthouse Keeper’s Lunch’
Geography
Topic Focus / Weather
  • Types of weather
  • Seasonal Changes
  • Relate months of the year to the seasons
  • Countries hotter/colder than the UK
/ History
Topic Focus / Social History
  • Exploring the children’s own history and the history of their family.
  • How have toys, schools, homes changed over time?
/ Geography
Topic Focus / Local Area/Contrasting Area
  • Using geographical vocabulary to refer to physical and human features of contrasting locations – Airedale & Filey
  • Using world maps, atlases, globes, compasses, aerial views
  • Using fieldwork and observational skills

Computing / Digital Literacy / Computing / Information Technology / Computing / Computer Science
Art / Colour mixing
Collage – Christmas Cards
Salt dough Christmas tree decorations / Art / Drawing – line and tone (Spring flowers)
Pencil drawings of the ugly duckling/swan / Art / Sewing & Textiles
Sculpture
D & T Cook it / Food Technology Focus – Jacket potatoes, parkin, Christmas cake, Tesco Farm to fork / D & T / Plan, design and make moving toys / D & T / Designing and making packaging for an ice lolly
Music / Music used to encourage emotion (BBC new year celebration video with fireworks)
Dynamics, Sensitivity, Pitch – high, middle, low / Music / Pulse & Rhythm and basic notation / Music / Rehearsing songs for end of term and class assembly – working as a team to polish a performance – practising to improve – depending on each other
PE / First Steps PE / PE / First Steps PE / PE / First Steps PE
RE / Christmas / RE / ‘Special Places’ (synagogue) & The Easter Story / RE / Special food – Jewish kosher food
  • Safety Week – Street feet road safety visit
  • Christingle
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  • World Book Day
  • Living Eggs
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  • Class Assembly Reports to Parents
  • Sports Day
  • Arts Week
  • Seaside Visit - Filey

Don’t give up – Try new things – Work hard – Understand others – Concentrate – Improve – Imagine – Push yourself