Year 1 Overview – Spring 1 & 2 How does your garden grow?
Art & Design
English
Spring 1
Spring 2
Books - Jack and the beanstalk/
Books – Alfie’s weather/
There would my wellies take
Elmers weather/Seasons come
me?/The tiny seed
Seasons go!
POETRY??
- write a bean diary
- Where would my wellies
take me? – take children
Weather poems - read a range
for local walk write about
walk around the field
- What would you find at the
end of your beanstalk?
Spring 1
 William Morris – observational drawing of
flowers
 use photos of flowers and cut in half then
represent other half using various media
Computing
Spring 1
 time lapse photography – photograph broad
at different stages and record
Spring 2
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Van Gogh – Starry night
Spring 2
 photograph different times of the day and
weather
Design & Technology
Geography
Spring 1
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Mathematics
Spring 1
 Ordering events in time
 Maps – direction
 Height – comparing plant/flower
heights/halving
 multiples of 2 on flowers
(counting leaves) (arranging sets
of objects to count)
 flower number bonds
 addition/subtraction of flowers
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Spring 2
Capacity – how much rain has
fallen
Time – night and day/telling
time
Addition and subtraction –
number of sunny/rainy/windy
days etc.
shape – link to making a kite
using DT area to create plants/flowers/trees
Spring 2
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make a moving weather/scene
– make a kite
Modern
Languages
Science
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Plants – local walk – looking for flowers and
trees (photograph – also use for art)
Growing own plants – planting – broad beans
Link with art – observational drawing of flowers
and label key parts
Seasonal changes – keep a weather diary
(present in table or graph)
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Spring 2
Human and physical geography
 Link with science – weather patterns – keep
a weather diary
Music
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Spring 1
Create a graphic score for plants growing
Choose un-tuned instruments to represent
plants growing
Fantasia - dvd
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Spring 2
Vivaldi – four seasons
Learn a range of weather songs
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Not required in KS1
Biology
Spring 1
Place knowledge
 local walk – school grounds
History
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World war 1 – poppies
remembrance
Physical
Education
Religious
Education
Spring 1
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Dance – individual/paired/team- plant life
cycle/use fantasia as a starting point
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Spring 1
Spring 2
 Make up a dance to various parts of ‘The Four
Seasons’ classical music
GYMNASTICS
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