Year 1

Year 1 Curriculum Overview
Year 1 Long Term Plan

Summer Term 2 - 2019 

This half term, we have been exploring our environment and learning all about the wild plants that grow within our surroundings. Whilst being tree detectives, we identified the most common trees that we have in our grounds and learnt which of these are evergreen and which are deciduous.

We have also learnt about two important explorers and the expeditions that they went on. Christopher Columbus inspired us to be resilient and not to give up on something that we really want to achieve; Tim Peake impressed us with his determination and persistence.

We also enjoyed taking part in sports day, celebrating each other’s successes and competing as part of a team.

   

 

Summer Term 1 - 2019

Year 1 have had an exciting half term learning all about kings and queens in our topic ‘Off with their head!’ We have compared the great Queen Victoria to our current queen, Elizabeth ll, discussing the similarities and differences between the two monarchs and learning about their lives. We explored what it might be like to live in Victorian times and held a class debate to share our opinions with each other.

Throughout our English learning this half term, we have delved into two very amusing books based on Queen Victoria (and her under garments!). To our surprise, we received a visit from Dily’s - the Queens royal maid from the story ‘The Queens Knickers’. We agreed to help Dily’s find the queens lost knickers for which she was very grateful! The sueen was so impressed with our investigation skills that we wrote a letter inviting her to visit our school to meet us all in person!

Amongst many highlights this half term was our school trip to Manor Farm. We thoroughly enjoyed dressing up as Victorians for the day and enjoyed an immersive experience giving us a real insight into Victorian life!

 
   

Year 1 welcomed the whole school and our grown-ups from home to join us for a year group assembly where we shared our learning and favourite parts of the trip to Manor Farm, including the impressive papier-mache monarchs we designed and created ourselves.

 

Spring Term 2 - 2019

Welcome to Asia! This half term, we began our learning with an Asian Adventure dress up day. Having removed the chairs and tables from the classroom, we spent the day experiencing Asian culture. We enjoyed cooking and tasting Bombay potatoes and asked our school cook if we could eat this for our lunches!

     
     

Throughout the half term, we have learnt about India, China and Russia, experiencing the culture and traditions associated with each country. We learnt about a traditional story from each and even had our own Karate lessons!

   
   

To celebrate the end of the theme, we were lucky enough to take part in a Gamelan Asian instruments workshop and enjoyed performing to our parents.

Spring Term 1 - 2019

We were very excited at the beginning of this half term to receive a delivery of eggs, even though we were unsure where they had come from. We found them inside our potion pod so hoped they were magical! We spent a lot of time predicting which creature we think may hatch out of our eggs, asking questions and deciding how best to look after them. In our potion pod, we created spells to encourage our eggs to hatch. When we came back to school after the weekend, there were dragons in our classrooms and lots of egg shell everywhere! Using our dragon as a stimulus we wrote our own magical stories and instructions for how to look after a dragon. We discussed real and mythical creatures in detail and had an interesting debate about dinosaurs! In P4C, we explored the concept of magic and whether it was something good or bad.

   

We were also fortunate enough this half term to take part in the Hampshire Illustrated Book Awards and thoroughly enjoyed reading four books and choosing our favourite. We are looking forward to finding out which book was voted as Hampshire's favourite over all.

 

Autumn Term 2 - 2018

This half term, we have enjoyed learning all about ‘Heroes’. We started off reading about Burglar Bill and helped the police to capture him by making wanted posters. After learning about the police, we met Traction Man and helped advertise his super powers to the rest of the school. We made our own Traction Man adverts and wrote our own stories. We were very lucky to have a visit from some real life heroes and enjoyed practising being fire fighters and using the hose!

 
   

Autumn Term 2 - 2018

This half term, we have been learning all about animals through our ‘Pets at home’ theme. We have been busy being scientists investigating different animals - where they live and what they like to eat. We were extremely lucky to have a visit from some creepy critters when Zoolab came into school and taught us even more about them. We learnt which creatures have bones, which do not have bones and other characteristics. Did you know a millipede has 248 legs?!

   
   

We finished the half term learning all about the harvest. We made our own Sukkah huts and celebrated the festival thinking about what we are thankful for.