Download individual curriculums for each year:
Year 1
Autumn Term
Year 1 curriculum content
Understanding physical development, health and wellbeing
- Settling in Curriculum
- SEAL: New Beginnings. Going for Goals
- Dance for production
- Philosophy for children—asking questions
- Exploring different movements, control of body
- Using apparatus safely
Understanding English, communication and languages
- Letter formation – phonics and introduce some blends, Sh, th, ch, ng, ee
- Simple word building for reading and writing – Familiar stories
- Developing listening skills
- Paired, small group and whole class discussions
- Writing lists and labels around the classroom – Individual and guided reading
- Choosing own reading books to take home
- Developing motor skills for writing through write dance
Historical, geographical and social understanding
- To investigate issues, express views and take part in decision – making activities to improve their immediate environment
- RE: Harvest, The Christmas Story
Scientific and technological understanding
- ICT – using ICT room, opening & closing programs, developing mouse control, using ICT/SMART board to support learning in other areas
- To explore and observe in order to collect data and describe findings
- To use knowledge and understanding in practical work
- To sort and group familiar living things and materials according to observable features and properties
- Topics: ourselves, materials
- To make models using construction kits & to use fastenings
Understanding the arts
- Explore use of different media
- Big Draw (paint, pastels, pencils) Collage
- Nativity production—exploring pitch
- Independent choice of creative resources
- Experimenting with colours mixing.
- Finding pulse in music
Mathematical understanding
- Problem solving activities
- Counting forwards and backwards
- Game playing skills
- Finding 1/2 more/less
- Counting in ones and twos
- Practical addition +
- Subtraction activities/games
- Counting on/back to work out addition/subtraction sums
- Shapes:2D and 3D
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