Summer 2
For the love of reading text
Paddington Bear – Michael Bond
The Paddington Bear books have been a family favourite for many years and the children will certainly enjoy reading all about this loveable bear. They will show off a range of writing skills during story writing lessons, such as sequencing and retelling the story. The children will also be focusing on instruction writing.
White Rose Maths
Number: place value (within 100)
Measurement: money
Measurement: time
Geography/ History
Great Inventions – Can we name 3 great inventions?
In this History unit, the children will be investigating inventors such as Alex Bell, Karl Benz and the Wright Brothers.
We will be using sources to compare similarities and differences between phones, cars and aeroplanes from the past and present.
Science
Seasonal Changes
We will be observing changes across the four seasons and describe the weather associated with the seasons and how day length varies.
Educational Visit
Canalside – Fruit Picking
PSHE/RSE/ RE
PSHE – How can we look after each other and the world?
We will focus on how people and animals need to be looked after and cared for. We will understand what can harm the local and global environment and begin to understand how the children can help and care for it.
RE – Who is Jewish and how do they live? Part 2
We will be recognising some of the words of the Shema as a Jewish prayer and know how Jewish ideas of God impact the lives of believers. We will find out how Jewish people remember God in different ways.
Art/ D & T/ Music
Art – Henri Rousseau
We will be focusing on observing patterns and exploring a variety of textures.
DT – Making a moving story book (Mechanisms)
We will explore slider mechanisms and the movement they output, to design, make and evaluate a moving storybook.
Music – Reflect, Rewind and Replay
This Unit of Work consolidates the learning that has occurred during the year. All the learning is focused around revisiting songs and musical activities, a context for the History of Music and the beginnings of the Language of Music.
Spanish
N/A
PE day
Wednesday
Spellings/ Reading
Children are ranging from Phase 4 to Phase 5 Unit 4 in Summer 2 – looking at alternate sounds for reading and spellings.
Summer 1
For the love of reading text
In Year 1, we will be exploring The Jolly Postman as part of our love of reading. The story follows a cheerful postman as he delivers letters and postcards to well-known fairy tale characters, such as Goldilocks and the Three Bears and Little Red Riding Hood. Each delivery gives us a glimpse into their stories in a fun and imaginative way.
Through this engaging text, children will focus on building simple sentences using capital letters, finger spaces and full stops. We will also begin to use conjunctions and time connectives to extend our ideas. The children will then have the opportunity to write their own letters and postcards for the Jolly Postman to “deliver,” helping them to practise these key writing skills in a fun and meaningful way.
White Rose Maths
Number: Multiplication and division.
Number: Fractions
Geometry: Position and direction
Geography/ History
History – The greatest people!
We will be diving into the recent past and exploring the life and legacy of some of the most famous people in history.
Why was Florence Nightingale so important? Who was Neil Armstrong? What did Christopher Columbus discover? We will also answer the question: how did they contribute to international history?
Science
Plants
We will be growing our own plants so that we can observe the changes that a seed or bulb will go through. We will also be exploring common wild plants and trees and explore what an evergreen and deciduous tree is. We will use our observation skills and new knowledge to label the parts of common plants and trees.
Educational Visit
PSHE/RSE/ RE
PSHE – Who helps to keep us safe?
We will understand who can help us and what to do if we feel unsafe. We will continue our discussions about safe and trusted adults and talk about what to do to make sure we are heard by these.
RE – Who is Jewish and how do they live?
We will recognise the words of the Shema as a Jewish prayer and talk about stories that are special in Jewish celebrations. We will look at how Jewish people celebrate special times, and make links between Jewish ideas of God found in the stories and how people live. We will talk about what we think is good about reflecting, thanking, praising and remembering for Jewish people too.
Art/ D & T/ Music
Art – Henri Rousseau
We will be focusing on using a range of materials creatively to design and make products, exploring textures and observing and drawing landscapes using observations and imagination.
DT – Making a moving story book
We will explore slider mechanisms and the movement they output, to design, make and evaluate a moving storybook based on the Greatest People topic.
Music – Your Imagination
In this unit we will explore songs that focus around our imagination. We will learn a range of songs and begin to improvise these using our previously learnt skills.
Spanish
PE day
Wednesday
Spellings/ Reading
Children are ranging from Phase 4 to Phase 5 Unit 3 in Summer 1 – looking at alternate sounds for reading and spellings.
To prepare for the phonics screening, we will be recapping the phase 5 sounds and skills: rereading some books when necessary.
Spring 2
For the love of reading text
Old Bear – Jane Hissey
It’s time to bring Old Bear back to the playroom! Old Bear has been up in the attic for a very long time, but he hasn’t been forgotten. Bramwell Brown leads the toys on a rescue mission to bring their friend, Old Bear, safely back home.
We will be focusing on a setting description and sequencing and retelling the story. We will also look at acrostic poems.
White Rose Maths
Measurement - Length and Height. Mass and Volume, Multiplication & Division
Geography/ History
Geography – Let’s Take a Trip Overseas!
The children will explore and start to understand continents, places that are near/far and we will look at the UK in more detail. We will gain an understanding of north, south, east and west. We will look at the surrounding oceans and how Mali, Timbuktu (Africa) is similar and different to London using human and physical geography.
Science
Animals including Humans
We will be covering carnivores, omnivores and herbivores and identifying and naming specific animals that eat these food types. We are looking at the structure of these animals.
Educational Visit
Peak Wildlife – we will be carrying out workshops looking at animals and their habitats and what they eat. This links to our Science topic Animals including Humans.
PSHE/RSE/ RE
PSHE – What can we do with money?
We will understand what money is, how it comes in different forms and begin to learn how money is obtained. We will also recognise how people make choices about what to do with money and the difference between needs/wants. Know how to keep money safe and list some of the different ways of
doing this.
RE – Why does Easter matter to Christians?
We will be focusing on telling stories of Holy Week and Easter from the Bible and recognise that Incarnation and Salvation are part of a ‘big story’ of the Bible. We will look at how Christians show their beliefs about Jesus’ death and resurrection in church worship at Easter. Finally we will think, talk and ask questions about whether the story of
Easter only has something to say to Christians, or if it has anything to say to pupils about sadness, hope or heaven.
Art/ D & T/ Music
Art – Pablo Picasso.
We will be focusing on colour, drawing and printing skills.
DT – We are drink makers.
We will design our own smoothie and select simple tools, use them appropriately and begin to evaluate the taste.
Music – Round and Round
The material presents an integrated approach to music where games, the dimensions of music (pulse, rhythm, pitch etc), singing and playing instruments are all linked.
Spanish
PE day
Monday morning with Bee Active!
Spellings/ Reading
Children are ranging from Phase 4 to Phase 5 Unit 3 in Spring 2 – looking at alternate sounds for reading and spellings.
Spring 1
For the love of reading text
Jack and the Beanstalk by Ed Bryan
Jack climbs the stalk in hopes of finding food. He comes across a town among the clouds and is helped by a magic fairy to find a giant's castle (home to the giant who killed Jack's father). Jack eventually steals a magic hen and gold coins from the giant.
White Rose Maths
Children will continue to focus on addition and subtraction skills up to 20.
They will then go on to learn about the place value of numbers up to 50.
Geography/ History
Geography – Our local area: What is it like where we live?
Children will explore the local area around us. We will be learning about where it is that we live in our country and city. We will also discuss the human and physical properties of Stoke-on-Trent. We will be able to draw on our skills and knowledge of the United Kingdom to locate Stoke-on-Trent on a map.
Science
Animals including humans
This half term we will be able to name and identify a variety of common animals including fish, amphibians, reptiles and mammals. We will also be able to compare the structure of these animals.
Educational Visit
Middleport Pottery
Year 1 will be able to immerse ourselves into our Geography topic of ‘Our local area’. We will explore the background of Stoke-on-Trent and just how talented the people of our local area are.
PSHE/RSE/ RE
PSHE/RSE – What helps us stay healthy?
This half term, we will explore what is means to be healthy – we will discuss the important people in our lives that can help us to be healthy for example, parents, teachers, doctors. We will begin to understand that what we put into our bodies will have an effect on how we will feel. We will understand how medicines will help us to be healthy and that some people need to take medicines every day in order to remain healthy.
RE – How should we care for the world and for others? And why does it matter?
During this half term, we will be able to identify a story or text that says something about each person being unique and valuable. We will be able to give an example of a key believe that some people find in these stories, for example that God loves all people. We will be able to give examples of how people show that they care for others e.g. by giving to charity. We will be able to give examples of how Christians and Jews can show care for the natural Earth.
Art/ D & T/ Music
Art – Our artist focus is Pablo Picasso
In year 1 we will explore the artist Pablo Picasso and observe his work. We will use a variety of drawing tools to create patterns after observing them. We will be able to develop impressed images whilst naming and understand all colours and shades. We will go on to mix colours for a purpose and apply colour with a range of tools.
D&T – Our focus is Fruit and Vegetables
We will be able to identify if a food is a fruit or vegetable. We will start to identify where plants grow and which parts we eat. We are looking forward to tasting different fruits and vegetables to compare them. Finally, we will use all of this knowledge to make a fruit and vegetable smoothie.
Music – In the groove
PE day
Our PE Day will be on a Wednesday. This half term, year 1 will become Groovy Gymnastics. We will use our bodies to be able to balance. We will also link our PE learning with our PSHE to link in with our hygiene, health and medicines.
Spellings/ Reading
Our spellings this half term will link in with our phonics ability. You will find our weekly spellings in spelling diaries.
We continue to read with your child 5 times per week, we appreciate your cooperation with this at home too!
Autumn 2
For the love of reading text
Gingerbread Man – Mara Alperin
The cheeky little gingerbread man is having so much fun! He scurries away from Mr and Mrs Baker and all the hungry animals, but then he meets a crafty fox . . . Will the gingerbread man meet a sticky end? The children will read the fairy tale story “The Gingerbread Man” They will begin to develop their reading and writing skills through a variety of genres—including sequencing and retelling the events of the story. We will start to focus on time connectives (first, then, after, last).
White Rose Maths
Measurement – Addition and Subtraction, Shape and Place Value.
Focusing on 2D/3D shapes and counting within 20.
Geography/ History
Geography – UK Adventures- What do you know about the UK cities and seas?
This geography unit focuses on naming and locating the 4 countries of the United Kingdom. We will use maps and
atlases to name capital cities and use aerial photographs to recognise UK landmarks. The children will name and locate
the surrounding seas of the UK.
Science
Everyday Materials
We will be distinguishing between an object and the material from what it has been made. Year 1 will describe the simple properties of a variety of everyday materials and they will compare and group together a variety of everyday materials.
Educational Visit
Kingshall Theatre Pantomime – Sleeping Beauty.
PSHE/RSE/ RE
PSHE – Who is special to us?
Year 1 will know that family is one of the groups they belong to, and they will know about the different people in their family. We will
understand how families are all different but share common features and what our families do to make us feel loved and cared for.
RE – Why does Christmas matter to Christians?
We will recognise that stories of Jesus’ life come from the Gospels and Year 1 will give a clear, simple account of the story of Jesus’
birth and why Jesus is important for Christians. We also give examples of ways in which Christians use the story of the Nativity
to guide their beliefs and actions at Christmas.
Art/ D & T/ Music
Art – Andy Goldsworthy
We will be constructing a piece of art in the style of Andy Goldsworthy and learn how to carve, roll and pinch coils using a modelling
media. We will also look at making simple joins and we will create patterns (using a variety of mediums)
DT – Constructing a dream house (structure)
We will look at individual preferences and requirements in designs of houses and we will make a stable structure of a dream house.
We will assemble the components of structures and the children will evaluate their projects and adapt their designs.
Music – Rhythm in the way we walk and Banana Rap.
The material presents an integrated approach to music where games, the dimensions of music (pulse, rhythm, pitch etc), singing
and playing instruments are all linked.
PE day
Wednesday
Spellings/ Reading
Children are ranging from Phase 3, Phase 4 and Phase 5 in Autumn 2.
Autumn 1
For the love of reading
The Bog Baby – Jeanne Willis
The children will read the magical story of ’The Bog Baby’. They will begin to develop their reading and writing skills through a variety of genres including drama, setting descriptions and character descriptions – using adventurous adjectives to describe the mythical creature.
White Rose Maths
Number: place value (within 10)
Number: addition and subtraction (within 10)
Geography/ History
My Family History
What was it like when our grandparents were children?
The children will explore similarities and differences between their own lives and those of people their grandparents’ age. We will focus on different topics, including homes, toys, shops and schools.
Science
Animals including Humans
We will be identifying, naming and labelling basic parts of the body. We will also focus on the different sense – sight, touch, taste, hearing and smell. We will look at which body part links to this specific sense.
Educational Visit
PSHE/RSE/ RE
PSHE – Relationships: what is the same and different about us?
We will look at the children’s likes and dislikes and discuss their interests and what they are good at. We will look at what makes them special and their strengths. The children will understand how their personal features or qualities are unique to them. We will recognise how the children are similar and different to each other and notice what they all have in common.
RE - Who do Christians say made the world?
Recognise how the ‘Creation’ story can fit with the ‘big story’ of the Bible and we will say what the creation story tells Christians about God, Creation and the world. We will learn how Christians say thank-you to God for Creation and we will discuss the links between the Creation story and our world now.
Art/ D & T/ Music
Art – Andy Goldsworthy
We will be constructing a piece of art in the style of Andy Goldsworthy and learn how to carve, roll and pinch coils using a modelling media. We will also look at making simple joins and we will create patterns (using a variety of mediums)
DT – Constructing a dream house (structure)
We will look at individual preferences and requirements in designs of houses and we will make a stable structure of a dream house. We will assemble the components of structures and the children will evaluate their projects and adapt their designs.
Music – Hey You!
The children will learn to move to music by dancing, marching, being animals or pop stars. This unit contains listening & appraising games, progressive warm-up games, progressive improvisation resources and a new compose tool.
PE day
PE will be on a Wednesday this half term.
Spelling
Children will be ranging from consolidating phase 3 and 4 phonics to starting phase 5 unit 1 in Autumn 1. Reading books will be changed on a Monday. Spelling tests will be on a Friday.