Year 1 Curriculum overview - Spring Term

Here is what Year 1 are going to be busy with this term.  You can download a copy here

Guidance about Year 1 Reading

Our cross-curricular themes for this term are:

1. Toys in the past and present               

2. Ourselves

During our topic work we will develop skills in the following subject areas:

Toys in the past and present

Literacy –.  finding information about toys, creating a presentation about their findings.

History– how toys have changed over time. Looking at toys in 1900s, 1950s and 2000.

Science – pushes and pulls, how do toys move? What happens when we pull or push them?

ICT – using the internet safely to find information about toys.

Art– to learn about different types of sculptures and create a sculpture based on a toy from the past.

Music – to learn and perform playground songs from the present and the past.

PE – dance - to move to the music to create a “robot” dance.

Ourselves

Literacy – writing letters to other children living in a different part of the country.  poetry – using the senses, learning about other cultures through stories..

Science – learning about our bodies, how we look after them and how we sense the world around us.

Geography – to learn about our local area and compare it to others in theUK andFrance.

French - to learn some French songs and basic vocabulary.

ICT – using a word bank to describe ourselves and create a self portrait.

P.E. – Gymnastics to create floor sequences involving balances on different parts of our bodies.

Art – self portraits using a variety of mediums.

Other subjects to be covered this term are:

PSHE – Going for goals, good to be me.

PE –  ball skills (linked to science – forces ) throwing, catching, dribbling and aiming. Invasion games – to use ball skills to play small games.

Literacy - Reading and writing activities based around stories with familiar settings, poem – pattern and rhyme. Continuing basic skills including punctuation, grammar and daily phonics.

Numeracy – addition and subtraction, counting in groups, mental calculation strategies, solving word problems, time and money and measures, space and shape. To continue working on targets involving mental calculations.

R.E. – stories from new and old testament

Visits and visitors / Dates for your diaries

Visit to the Centre For Life on Wednesday 7^th March to learn about our senses.

Homework

As explained in the homework policy each half term we will be asking the children to do an extended piece of project style homework. When the children are not doing this they will be completing a weekly homework usually one Literacy and one Numeracy based piece. We will send the homework home on a Friday and it must be returned by the following Friday.

As with reading and tricky words, please practise numeracy targets for a few minutes each day rather than one prolonged session.