Year 1 Curriculum Map – Summer Term 2017

Subject / Coverage
English / Quality text / Where the Forest Meets the Sea
Information text (Holidays) (Plants and Animals)
Descriptive writing & postcards (settings)
The Snail & the Whale
Stories with a message: Where the Wild Things Are
Reading Comprehension /
  • Re-read these books to build up their fluency and confidence in word reading
  • Developpleasure in reading, motivation to read, vocabulary and understanding by:
  • Being encouraged to link what they read or hear read to their own experiences
  • Listening to and discussing a wide range of poems, stories and non-fiction at a level beyond that at which they can read independently

Writing transcription/
Spelling /
  • Children can write from memory simple sentences dictated by the teacher that include words using the GPCs and common exception words taught so far
  • Add prefixes and suffixes using -ing, -ed, -er and -est where no change is needed in the spelling of root words: e.g. helping, helped, helper, eating, quicker, quickest
  • Continue to spell most common exception words
  • Spell words containing each of the 40 phonemes already taught (phase 2, 3 and 5).

Handwriting /
  • Understand which letters belong to which handwriting ‘families’ (i.e. letters that are formed in similar ways) and to begin to join letters
  • Continue form lowercase letters in the correct direction, starting and finishing in the right place
  • Form capital letters
  • For digits 0-9

Vocabulary Grammar and Punctuation /
  • Develop their understanding of the concepts set out in English Appendix 2 by: joining words and joining clauses using ‘and’, so, but, because, when independently to join clauses
  • Adjective, nouns, past tense, time connectives, conjunctions.
  • Ensure they are using capital letters and full stops correctly and consistently, as well as using question marks and exclamation marks.

Writing Composition / Write sentences by:
  • saying out loud what they are going to write about
  • composing a sentence orally before writing it
  • sequencing sentences to form short narratives
  • re-reading what they have written to check that it makes sense
  • discuss what they have written with the teacher or other pupils

Mathematics / Number/Place value /
  • Begin to memorise number bonds to 10 and 20, including noticing the effect of adding or subtracting zero (+)
  • Solve number problems with number and place value from the Year 1 curriculum.

Addition/
Subtraction /
  • Continue to solve one-step problems that involve addition and subtraction, using concrete objects and pictorial representations, and missing number problems such as 7 = ? – 9.

Multiplication/Division /
  • Begin to understand multiplication, division and doubling through grouping and sharing small quantities

Measurement /
  • Compare, describe and solve practical problems for lengths and heights, mass or weight and capacity/volume (^)
  • Compare, describe and solve practical problems for time (^)

Geometry /
  • Describe position using everyday language e.g. top, middle, bottom, in front of, between, near, inside (+)
  • Describe movement in straight lines using everyday language and describe turns, including half, quarter and three-quarter turns in both directions and connect turning clockwise with movement on a clock face (+)

Problem Solving /
  • Act it out, simplify, list or table.

IPC / Green Fingers!
  • Pose simple scientific questions
  • To conduct simple investigations
  • Identify ways of finding out about scientific issues
  • Gather information from simple texts
  • Describe the geographical features of the school site and other familiar places
Hooray! Let’s go on Holidays!
  • Holiday destinations and activities
  • Comparing holidays from now and the past
  • Comparing different countries
  • Safety on holidays
  • Holiday transport
  • Souvenirs- designing and creating

PSHE / Dear Diary
  • Comfortable and uncomfortable feelings
  • Problems in relationships
  • Anti-bullying
  • Help and support
Living long, living strong
  • SRE: Growing & caring for ourselves;
  • Valuing difference & keeping safe;
  • Healthy eating and exercise
  • Goal-setting and motivation

PE / Throwing/Catching
Athletics – Basic Track events/ Basic Field Events
RE / Caring for our world
  • explore how we define the ‘natural world’
  • explore the concept of stages of growth.
  • explore how we respond to what is perceived as the divine ‘spark’
  • look at some stories told about the origin of the world
  • explore the idea of ‘charity’ as it applies to the environment

MFL / How old are you? I am ---years-old.
Animals.
Likes and dislikes.
Homework / Homework will be given out on Thursday and returned no later than Tuesday.
Homework consists of weekly Maths and either an English/IPC/Science or PSHE task. These tasks may vary from written/discussion or research based tasks.
Children need to select 5 words from their spelling list and write a sentence with each word