WHITEHILLSPRIMARY SCHOOL

YEAR 1 LONG TERM INTEGRATED CURRICULUM PLANNING

TERM / 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 / 6
Edison Unit / Unit 7
All About Me and My Friends.
(6 weeks) / Unit 8
The Aliens are Coming!
(6 weeks) / Unit 9
Traditional Tales
From Around The World
(3 weeks)
Unit 9a
Kung Hay Fat Choy – May You Prosper
(3 weeks) / Unit 9
Traditional Tales From Around The World
(3 weeks)
Unit 10
Van Gogh’s Starry Night (3 weeks) / Unit 11
Water World / Unit 12
Our Great Exhibition
(Victorian school day & Visit to Holdenby House)
Literacy Unit:
Fiction / Unit 1: Stories with familiar settings. (4 weeks)
BIG WRITE ASSESSMENT
Drama for writing
Pumpkin Soup / Unit 1: Stories about Fantasy Worlds
Integrated curriculum ‘Space’
Write from the beginning introduction
Letter writing
Drama for writing
Beegu / Unit 2: Stories from a range of cultures
Chinese New Year writing
-Willow pattern story
-Story of the 5 suns
Write from the beginning
Tree Maps
Drama for writing
Rumpelstiltskin / Unit 2: Stories from a range of cultures
Unit 3: Traditional tales
Write from the beginning
Tree Maps
Drama for writing
Laura’s Star
Drama – The Sun Wizard BIG WRITE ASSESSMENT / Unit 4: Stories about Fantasy Worlds (From term 6 Link Learning ‘Fantasy’) (2 weeks)
Write from the beginning
Tree Maps
Drama for writing
Water Boy / Unit 3:
Write from the beginning
Tree Maps
BIG WRITE ASSESSMENT
Recount about Holdenby House trip
Drama for writing
Tom and the Island of Dinosaurs
Literacy Unit:
Non-Fiction / Unit 1: Captions
(1 week) / Unit 3: (Poetry)
Poems on a theme / Unit 4: Information Texts
Facts about Vincent Van Gogh / Unit 3/5: Recount
(2 weeks)
Unit 4: Information texts (from term 4) (2 weeks)
Unit 2: Instructions
(1 week)
Unit 3: (Poetry)
Poems on a theme
( 1 week) / Unit 4: Information text
(2 weeks)
Links For Language & Literacy /
  • Invitations
Pumpkin soup recipe
Wanted poster /
  • Journey of a letter
  • Captions
  • Write/follow instructions
/

Little Red Riding Hood

  • Tiddalik
  • Anancy
  • The Ginger Bread Man/The Runaway Chapatti
  • The Lion Dance
/
  • Words to describe blue
  • Learn poem
  • Laura’s Star
  • Write own ‘Twinkle’ poem
  • Actions for verses
  • Exploring character
  • Choral performance
/
  • Instructions for planting seeds
  • Water words/poems
  • Recount of frog life cycle
/
  • Big Books
  • Learn and recite rhymes
  • Reading book
  • Imaginary school story
  • Labels and signs

Science / Discuss drugs as medicine (Drug Awareness Topics 1-3)
(Name body parts and then purpose
Investigation – using the senses
Comparing similarities and differences
Keeping healthy)
OURSELVES / Sounds in school
Sound investigation
SOUND & HEARING / Dark box for investigation
Sorting materials for puppets
Sorting materials (floating & sinking)
Kite investigation – tails
Sorting materials for puppets
Mixing and changing materials
Sound investigation
MATERIALS / Dark box for investigation
Sorting materials for puppets
Mixing and changing materials
Making shadows
Light and light sources
Reflected light / shiny materials & non shiny materials
Telescopes
Shooting stars
Star constellations LIGHT & DARK / GROWING PLANTS
Ponds & Pondlife
Life cycle of a frog / Forces
Problem Investigation
PUSHES & PULLS
Art /
  • Observational drawings
  • Black and White
  • Composite child (international)
  • Texture collage
  • Famous paintings
  • Portrait of a friend
  • Printing
/
  • Different views of everyday objects
  • Designing symbols
  • Make a street frieze
  • Make a class mural
  • Alien mask
  • Design an alien
/
  • Aboriginal art
  • Draw/paint/collage spiders
  • Draw/paint the Nene
  • Make Chinese lanterns
  • Willow pattern/story telling plates
  • Chinese characters/writing
  • Draw/paint/collage sampans
/
  • Line drawing
  • Colour mixing (blue & yellow)
  • Colour mixing (tones)
  • Painting their own ‘Starry Night’ sky
  • Brusho painting
/
  • Marbling
  • Sculpture
  • Colour mixing & matching
  • Water landscape
/
  • Be an artist!
  • Draw what you see!
  • Explore Patterns
  • Silhouette
  • Draw what you see!
  • Explore Patterns
  • Silhouette
Portraits
Geography / Letter from an alien
Where do you live?
Walk to a chosen site
Sorting photographs
Devise a route
Finding way around the school with an adult/independently
Following directions
Describe journey to school / Route to Grandma’s house
Locate Australia
Locate Jamaica
Locate India & compare setting
Locate China & introduce continents / NESW/ climate
Compare China/Asia with Britain/Europe
Water around the world
Route to YimSungs underwater home -mapmaking
Navigate the river / Locating water in the school environment / Travel and transport in Victorian times
Core Skills / Learning With Others / Developing Independence & Responsibility / Improving Own Learning and Performance / Developing Sense of Self Worth & Understanding
of Self and others / Thinking Skills / Speaking and Listening
D & T / Design & make a fruit salad (linked to science) / Road Maps
Constructing an alien mask / Finger puppets
Designing & making puppets
Kites –
Designing & making shadow puppets
Designing & making lanterns for Chinese New Year

Class Chinese Lion

/ Create a fish tank
Make a water shaker / Dress up figure
Theatre
Telephones
Inventor
History / Make a zigzag timeline
Finding out about the past
Relatives
Preparing questions
Record and play back visit
Magic Granddad
Sequencing toys
TOYS FROM THE PAST / Supplying water to the home / Looking at a VictorianSchool
Looking at artefacts.
Homes
Old or new?
Sequencing
Impact of Victorian Science
Electricity
Edison
Victorian transport
HOMES IN THE PAST
ICT / Study Unit 1:
Let’s Pretend that…….
Magic GrandadCDRom / Study Unit 2:
Letters and words / Study Unit 3:
Information everywhere / Study Unit 4:
Classifying using keywords / Study Unit 5:
Pictograms / Study Unit 6:
Instructions
PSHE / Growing from young to old
Playground games
Circle time
My body
My favourite
What if?
Saying sorry
Feelings
Stories / Class rules written and illustrated
Debate
Introducing an alien to the school / Keeping safe
Changing the wolf’s behaviour
Design a healthy lunch
Playing tricks
Similarities and differences
Recognising your feelings
Making decisions between right and wrong
Safety and hygiene / Recognising feelings and understanding emotions
Developing a positive sense of one’s self
Stress management and conflict resolution / Responsibility for living things
Friendship
Respect for the Environment / What is old?
Role of the teacher
Electrical safety
Health and medicine – now and then