Curriculum Overview for Year 1 – Autumn Term 2015
Art & Design
Computing
English
 Traditional tales – Fairy tales
 Fiction – Sequencing a story, settings,
comparing traditional tales with
traditional tales with a twist, and
characterisation
 Non-fiction – labelling castles, letters
 Poetry – Poems on a theme (castle and
seasonal poems)
 Drama – hot seating
 Guided reading and individual reader
 Phonics – Letters and Sounds phases 3, 4
and 5
 Handwriting
 Grammar and sentence structure
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Design and make crowns
Portraits (self and family)
Scissor technique
Colour mixing (primary colours to secondary
colours)
Design & Technology
 Crowns
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E-safety
Programming
Using iPads
Saving work
Using a keyboard and mouse
 Parts of the computer
Geography
 Location of castles
 International Food Week
Mathematics
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Days of the week and months of the year
Count and order numbers to 20
Read, write and recognise numbers to 20 in digits and words
One more / one less
Using number lines
Number bonds to 10
Adding and subtracting
One step problems
2D and 3D shapes
Measuring (non-standard units of measurement)
Science
 Seasonal changes (Autumn)
 Properties of materials – advantages and
disadvantages
 Investigations
Modern
Languages
 The children will start French in the
Summer term
Music
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Singing games and rhymes
Controlling classroom instruments
Creating music to tell a story
History
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Features of a castle
Geographical locations of castles
Castle life – banquets, jousting
Life of a King / Queen
Family trees
Physical
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Education
Dance – Medieval and Tudor dances
Games – Throwing and catching
Gym – Basic shapes
Swimming – Building confidence in the water.
Beginning to learn some strokes (front crawl
and back stroke)
Religious
Education
 Harvest
 Divali
PSCHE
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To duscuss right from wrong
New beginnings
Friendships
Class charter