Year 1

Year 1 Curriculum Overview
Year 1 Long Term Plan

Summer Term 2 - 2018

During the summer term, Year 1 have enjoyed learning about the traditional tale of Little Red Riding Hood. Our classroom role-play areas were transformed into Grandma’s cottage; we acted out the story and especially enjoyed the ending where the wolf was captured by the Woodcutter! Our Little Red learning continued in Art, where we designed and made a cardboard house belonging to one of the characters from the tale. We made hinges for doors and windows and decorated the outside with paint and collage.

   

We enjoyed learning outside this term in our fantastic school grounds. We made maps of our school and created our own keys as well as using geography field work to find out more about our local environment.

Who would have thought Year 1 would be so interested in flowers, plants and trees… First of all, we made our own 3D flower to help us recognise the key parts of a plant and flower. Outside, we searched for different wild and garden flowers and named deciduous and evergreen trees. Our favourite flower was the sunflower! We painted sunflowers in the style of Vincent Van Gogh using watercolour paints.

 
     
     

Lastly, all of our practice for sports day paid off. We showed determination, team work and resilience as we competed in individual and team races. The red team were triumphant! The Year 1 team would like to thank our learners and parents for all their hard work this year. It has been a year full of many successes and memories. The Year 1 team wish the learners well for their Year 2 journey.

Summer Term 1 - 2018

This term, Year 1 have been busy being history detectives. We have learnt about 3 different queens - queens from now, long ago and a long time ago.

We started our topic by celebrating our current queen’s 92nd birthday and we had a royal tea party! We even made decorations and feasted on traditional British food!

We read ‘The Queen’s Knickers’ and made our own knickers for the Queen. We hope she will wear them on her next special occasion.

We went on a school trip to Manor Farm to see what it would be like to be a Victorian child. We visited a Victorian classroom and met Mrs Stubbs the teacher; she was very strict. Then we had an interesting tour of the Victorian house and made rag rugs. The farmer showed us all animals in the farm and we even had the chance to feed the goats and pigs!

We enjoyed learning about the queens and found out lots of interesting facts.

Spring Term 2 - 2018

Expelliarmus!

Abracadabra……. This term in Year 1, we were transported to magical lands! We found mysterious eggs in our classroom which hatched into dragons. We learnt about different magical creatures, such as unicorns, dragons, phoenixes, fairies, trolls, giants and even wizards. We especially enjoyed hearing stories about Winnie the Witch and her cat Wilbur! To help us with our writing, we made sentence wands (just like Winnie) and had a magical dress up day! We looked fantastic in our costumes!

Wonderful Weather!

Outside, we learnt about the weather. Luckily, it snowed this term, so we could see the full range of wonderful weather that the UK has to offer. Mrs Flint and Miss Thornton helped us to make a weather station in our schools grounds so that we can continue to monitor and report on the weather. We were inspired to create our own weather puppet shows and to make wind socks and rain gauges.

Get out, stay out, call 999!

Hampshire Fire and Rescue Service visited us on the last Monday to help us to keep safe. We had the opportunity to learn lots and even go inside a real fire engine!

Spring Term 1 - 2018

Namaste!

This term, Year 1 have travelled to Incredible India. We learnt about the continent of Asia and located it on a map! To help us to understand the culture in India we became Indian chefs and made our own Indian food! Mrs Talati showed us how to make Bombay Potatoes, a traditional dip and chapatti breads! Just before lunch, our teachers set up an Indian feast complete with mango chutney, rice, mini poppadums and curry sauce! Some of us had never tried Indian food before! In true Indian style, we used our right hand to eat our feast (no cutlery). It was yummy!

Totally inspired by Indian food, we painted different fruits that grew in India! We made our own Indian musical instruments called sitars! We performed our musical piece in front of our parents during our Year 1 assembly! We loved learning about India because it is so different to our country! 

 

Autumn Term 2 - 2017

As the autumn leaves started to fall, we became interested in learning all about the changing seasons. A real life Little Red Hen came to visit our school and we spent the morning drawing her and labelling the images we had made. While we were away from our class rooms, she left us a trail of bread crumbs. We listened to the story and learnt that she was a busy hen. We wanted to be just like her and decided to make our very own bread roll to share with our reading buddies. We found kneading the dough rather tricky but the end results tasted yummy!

To get us really excited about our new topic, the whole of Year 1 (including our teachers) came dressed up as people who we thought helped us in our community. We made fireman handprints, poppies paintings to remember those who fought in the war and even traffic light biscuits! It was great fun! To help us to find out who the heroes were in our community – and to grow our brains - we had some special visitors, including a dental nurse, a care home worker and a postman! We loved learning all about their roles and asked them lots of interesting questions.

As a year group, we decided that a key group of heroes in our community was the police. We were extremely lucky to have the opportunity to visit a real life police station! They picked us up in their special police van and took us to the local police station. The officers took our finger prints and we tried on police uniform. When we arrived, some of our teachers were so naughty they were arrested! We looked inside the station and the cells and asked the police officers lots of questions! It was very exciting!

To end our half term, we really enjoyed learning the songs and lines for our Christmas performance of ‘The Bethlehem Star’. We think our parents enjoyed our acting and angelic singing too!

Autumn Term 1 - 2017

This term we have gone on an animal adventure through ‘Zoorassic Park’. During our first few weeks as Year 1 learners, we learnt all about dinosaurs! We went on a dinosaur dig around our school grounds to see if we could find real dinosaur bones. We carefully examined their body parts and began to talk about what types of food they would eat. We discussed whether different dinosaurs were carnivores, herbivores or even omnivores.

As part of our science learning, we welcomed some little creatures from Zoo Lab. Heather brought in many of her exotic pets, such as a Madagascan hissing cockroach, a cornsnake, an African land snail, a tarantula, a gerbil, and a tortoise. We really enjoyed learning some wonderful and interesting facts about these different animals. Did you know that a tarantula sprays the hairs from its legs to protect itself? We were surprised too!

On our travels into the deep, dark woods this term, we came across some forest creatures. The Gruffalo and his friends have helped us with our writing and making learning. We have made the characters new houses and we have even made our very own Gruffalo out of natural materials from our school grounds. We love the Gruffalo!

At the end of the term, we were delighted to welcome some new additions to Year 1. Our pet fish will be housed in our shared area, where we will look after them. We created our own Year 1 Fish Care Code to help us remember the rules for looking after a pet and keeping it safe.

It’s been a marvellous start to Year 1 and we can’t wait to see what next term has in store!