Year 1 2024 - 2025

Year 1 marks the first year of Key Stage 1 and it is a very fun, exciting and busy year.

Curriculum Overview

English:

• Spoken Language
• Reading: Comprehension and Word Reading
• Writing: Transcription, Vocabulary, Grammar and Punctuation
• Handwriting

Key Class Reading Texts This Term:

• The Three Little Pigs,
• Billy Goats Gruff,
• Goldilocks and the Three Bears,
• Commotion in the Ocean,
• Tiddler,
• Someone Swallowed Stanley,
• The Lighthouse Keepers Lunch,
• Sea Creature Information Texts,

Maths: 

• Number: Learning to read, write and sequence numbers to 100, simple Addition and Subtraction using resources, Multiplication of 2, 5 and 10.
• Geometry: Shape, Position and Direction
• Measurement: Money, Time, Length and Height, Mass, Capacity and Temperature
• Statistics

Religious Education (Religious Education Directory): 

• Covenant and Creation,
• Prophecy and Promise,
• Galilee to Jerusalem,
• Desert to Garden,
• To The Ends of The Earth,
• Dialogue and Encounter.

Science: 

• Identify and name living animals, recognising the different features of animals.
• Plants- to understand and recognise deciduous and evergreen trees and to label the different parts of a plant.
• Recognise the four seasons and recognise the weather changes.
• Uses of Everyday Materials.

Physical Education:

Pupils will develop fundamental movement skills, become increasingly competent and confident and access a broad range of opportunities to extend their agility, balance and coordination, individually and with others. They will engage in competitive (both against self and against others) and co-operative physical activities, in a range of increasingly challenging situations.

• Master basic movements including running, jumping, throwing and catching, as well as developing balance, agility and co-ordination, and begin to apply these in a range of activities,
• Participate in team games, developing simple tactics for attacking and defending,
• Perform dances using simple movement patterns. 

History: 

• Change Over Time: How have I changed in my lifetime?
• Event from Before Anyone I know was born: What happened at Kitty Hawk in 1903?
• Significant Individuals: Why do we remember Grace Darling?
  

Geography: 

• To name, locate and identify characteristics of the four countries and capital cities of the United Kingdom and its surrounding seas.
• understand geographical similarities and differences through studying the human and physical geography of a small area of the United Kingdom, and of a small area in an African country.
• Geographical Skills and Fieldwork.

Art: 

• Andy Warhol - Portraits,
• Digital art inspired by African patterns- to understand the shapes and colours used in African patterns.
• Vincent Van Gogh (Starry Night) - to explore the use of pastels and paint.   

Design Technology: 

• Food,
• Textiles,
• Mechanical Systems.

Music: 

• Use their voices expressively and creatively by singing songs and speaking chants and rhymes,
• Play tuned and untuned instruments musically,
• Listen with concentration and understanding to a range of high-quality live and recorded music,
• Experiment with, create, select and combine sounds using the inter-related dimensions of music.

Personal Social Health Education (PSHE):

• The Wider World,
• Mental Health and Well-being,
• Relationships (No Outsiders),
• Healthy Lifestyles,
• Journey in Love

Computing:

• Multimedia Text and images,
• Multimedia Sound and Motion,
• Handling Data,
• Technology in Our Lives,
• Coding and Programming,
• Online Safety.

Homework 

• Daily reading is expected at least 5 times per week for approximately 5-10 minutes. Reading books will be changed on a Friday during your child’s Phonics sessions. Please sign your child’s reading record daily to let us know you have read with them.
• Numbots Maths homework will be set and passwords will be given out.
• Later on in the year weekly English/Maths homework will be given out. In the first instance we advise you to focus on daily home reading.

General Reminders 

• Please ensure children have the correct school uniform daily and wear appropriate, black school shoes, not trainers (see policy).
• PE is on a Monday with Mr Tyson. Your child needs to keep their full PE Kit in school. This will be sent home at the end of each half-term to be washed.

• Please ensure all items are clearly labelled with your child’s name.
• Children in Year 1 will have Music on a Wednesday morning which will be taught by Ms Neville-Evans.
• Please ensure your child brings their reading book and record to school every day.
• Please ensure you read and follow our packed lunch policy accordingly. 
• Please ensure you make the office aware of any absences as soon as possible.
• If someone different is due to collect your child at the end of the day, please can you ring the office on the day to let us know.
• Our priority at the end of the day is to see the children out safely to their designated adults. If you have any queries please do not hesitate to phone the office to make an appointment with any Year 1 staff to discuss any concerns or issues relating to your child’s learning. `