Year One

Subject

Autumn Term

Spring Term

Summer Term

English

- Stories with familiar settings

- Stories and rhymes with predictable and repetitive patterns

- Signs, labels, instructions, lists

- Acquiring and consolidation of initial sounds

- Using sounds and letters to build words

- Developing pencil grip

- Writing sentences with a full stop.

- Reading a range of books  stories, poetry, plays, following instructions and factual information.

- Phonic knowledge (i.e. the sounds made by letters and letter clusters) and other strategies, which can be used to decode unknown words.

-Key word vocabulary - knowing the sounds of the letters, pictorial clues and whether the text makes sense.

-Recognise full stops and capital letters when reading, use them correctly in their written work.

- Formal handwriting lessons, taught correct letter formation and orientation (i.e. which letters sit on the line, tall letters etc).

- Opportunities to carry out a range of writing e.g. stories, poems, lists, labels, facts connected with the topics and writing their names.

- Work with puppets and use of the role play area.

- Different strategies to help them read, such as knowing the sounds of the letters, pictorial clues and whether the text makes sense. 

- Looking at stories with fantasy worlds and poems with predictable patterns, as well as information books.

 - Question marks, capital letters and word order.

- Long vowel phonemes, initial and final

 - Spell simple words.

- Form their letters correctly

Maths

- Place value and ordering numbers to at least 20

- Understanding addition and subtraction

- Mental calculation

- Money recognition and totals up to 10p

- Length and time

- 2D and 3D shapes - The features of familiar shapes

- Counting objects

- Number, names and words.

- Time,

- Money,

- Measurement and handling data.

- Working with numbers up to 30.

-  Place value and ordering, - Understanding of adding and subtracting

 - Mental calculation strategies

- Money and real life problems

 - Making decisions,

- Capacity

- Time

 - Shape

 - Pattern 

- Data handling

Science

Ourselves:

- The senses

- Similarities and differences between humans

- Similarities and difference between humans and animals.

Light and Dark:

- Light sources

- Compare light sources

- Why it is dangerous to look at the sun.

Materials

Pushes and pulls.

Growing Plants’

 - Different plants and identifying the parts of a plant. 

Sound and Hearing

 - Finding out what it would be like if they could not hear.

 -Listening to different sounds around school

ICT

Assembling text and graphics (introduction to modelling)

  Developing mouse control

  Using a word bank.

Using a Wordbank’.

Gather information from a variety of sources and use keywords to label and classify objects. 

Develop  keyboard and mouse skills.

Key pieces of information that can be used to describe objects

How to give and follow instructions to make things happen.

R.E

Our Special World:  The Creation Story.  If I Made the World.  Harvest foods and festival.  Spoiling God’s World. Looking after God’s World.  Special people: The Vicar, people at church, babies.  Special times: Christmas, Baptism.

The Bible being a special

book : in particular learning about stories from the Old Testament.

Easter Celebration.

The importance of prayer, in particular The Lord’s Prayer.  How this prayer relates to our lives as Christians.

Stories from the New Testament and discussing the meanings – how does God want us to live as Christians?

History

Toys

Homes today and in the past

The seaside in the past.

Geography

Local area (around our school including road safety).

The local area - Jobs, buildings and local amenities.

 Countries Barnaby Bear has visited, including  Dublin, the seaside and Brittany.

Music

(Related to RE).  Singing songs with control.  Exploring sounds

'Communication' - including rhythms, playing percussion instruments, listening and appraising music as well as learning songs

Second half of the term - working towards our 'Easter Assembly'.

Singing songs and playing untuned instruments.

P.E

 Games – ball skills

 Dance– travelling rhythmically and making shapes.

Games skills - throwing, catching and batting skills.

Dance and Gymnastics - Body shape.

Gymnastics -  concentrating on balance.

 Games - ball skills.  Practising for sports day

Art

Portraits.

Various materials and weaving

Sculpture and looking at the work of famous sculptors.

Design and Technology

Making moving pictures.

Playground equipment

Fruit and vegetables