Year 1
Term 1
Autumn
Creativity
Themes
Curriculum Overview
All About Me!
(3 Weeks)
Autumn
(3 Weeks)
Creativity Week
Amazing Australia (2 weeks)
W.O.W!
Teachers - Personal passport
Visit from a mother and baby
Guess the children using the baby photo.
Trip to Fair ground
Autumn walk around the school
Harvest festival
Autumn/Harvest table
Literacy
Texts linked to own experiences –
All About Me!
Read aloud stories
Recount – Holiday postcard - news
Read aloud poems - Poems on a theme - using the sense – Fair and Autumn
Fairy/Traditional Tales/Stories with predictable phrases.
Recount – Traditional story Instructions
Science
ICT
History
Geography
Biology –
Ourselves – Body parts (humans and animals- pets)
Senses
Ourselves –Senses – poem.
Senses - Investigate different apples.
Seasons – Autumn – Changes and weather
Autumn walk and investigation.
Investigate the day length.
Music
Investigate materials –
Name and identify different materials.
Sort materials according to properties.
Know the uses of materials and why they are
suitable.
Investigate ways to make materials/homes
secure.
Materials
Safety
Safety
Research
Present information using ICT
Technology
Programming
Purple Mash – Retell story.
Key event. Key Concept.
Great Fire of London
Changes in Fire Brigade
Changes over time – compare and contrast,
similarities and differences, cause and effect.
Sequencing. Obtain and present information
indifferent ways.
Building materials past and present.
Country and Capital cities – England and
London.
Mapping Skills
Investigate another place – London –
Famous London landmarks.
Research – How and when other countries
and people celebrate Christmas.
Type Christmas card message.
Dance – Costumes
Gymnastics
Dance – The twelve days of Christmas.
Paint - Painting skills, colour mixing.
Colours
Draw and print - Mark making
(Fireworks)
Draw - Observational drawing – Guy
Fawkes
Investigate and develop ideas.
Investigate, design, make and evaluate–
Technique knowledge
carnival carts
Carnival masks
Carnival costumes (HOME PROJECT)
Collage – Houses
Observational drawings – artefacts from the
past.
Develop ideas - Christmas cards – cut and
stick.
Draw - Calendar - Seasons
Printing - Wrapping Paper
Making and evaluate – Bread - follow
instructions, make and evaluate.
Junk model – house.
Decorations -
T
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Type up list of equipment
Labelling
Sequence a traditional story from another
culture.
Australian Aborigines
Time connectives - vocabulary –
instructions.
Local History - History of the Carnival
Guy Fawkes and Bonfire night (brief)
Key Event - Remembrance Day.
Postcards – Holiday destinations.
Mapping skills. Weather and temperature.
Autumn walk – seasonal changes, weather and temperature.
Location of Fair in local area – St Matthews Field, West Street.
Closure of West Street – how street is similar and different during the fair
period.
Local food and produce.
Where do apples come from – local and world – locate on map.
Hot country.
Mapping skills.
Locate and investigate a hot country
Story maps. Keys. Symbols.
Flags
Similarities and difference
Weather/temperature
Travel. Vocabulary. Key landmarks. Food
Quick Cricket
Dance
Famous artists - Paint - Aboriginal Art –
pointillism
Draw, collage, textiles - Flags,
boomerangs, masks, didgeridoos, great
barrier reef.
Printing. Symbols.
Mapping skills (Bridgwater Carnival
Route)
Locate other carnivals in Somerset and
around the World.
Gymnastics
Dance
Painting - Colour mixing and shading
Collage. Different materials.
Collage, draw, digital media - Autumn – colours and collage.
Famous artist– Van Gough
Inspirational Artist – pop art – Andy Warhole
Make and decorate – didgeridoos.
Stick puppets (for Australian story)
Make and evaluate - Cookery- Australian
food.
Make and evaluate - Cookery- apple crumble
DT
SEAL
PSHCE
H
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Key concept. Local history, Changes in living memory –
History of Bridgwater Fair – compare and contrast
Sequence a story – Traditional story.
Time connectives/vocabulary – instructions.
Follow instructions - time
Inspirational Artist – pop art – Andy Warhole
RE
Investigate materials –
Name and identify different materials.
Sort materials according to properties.
Know the uses of materials and why they
are suitable.
Physics 2 – Pushes and pulls – Investigate
and compare how things move on different
surfaces. (?)
Fairy tales/predictable phrases
Stories with predictable phrases/patterns
Recounts & Diaries
Key stories
Lists, labels and captions.
Letters to Santa
Story sequencing.
Christmas Story
Non Fiction texts
Lists
Write for different purposes.
Rhymes to recite (London’s Burning)
Read and follow instructions (Bread)
Key stories
To be taught discreetly following Block A, B, C, D and E with links made if possible
Australian research – animal, weather, life,
food.
Create an information page/leaflet/tourist
broacher.
Safety
Gymnastics
Games
Painting - Colour mixing and shading
Painting - Self Portraits – faces
Our special place
Special Places
Special Places
New Beginnings -
All about me- boards.
Create a personal passport/friendship link chain.
Exploring voices
Respect other people/cultures
Didgeridoos
Daffodils – McMillan Cancer
Enterprise
The birth of Jesus
What was Christmas like when
parents/grandparents were little?
Similarities and differences, cause and
effect.
Investigate cold places - Where does Santa
live?
Christmas around the world - How and
when other countries and people celebrate
Christmas
Christmas story
Getting on and falling out
Rules and Choices
Rules and Choices
Practice singing Harvest Festival Songs
What’s in the stocking?
Christmas around the world website
Christmas Nativity
Christmas party.
Fire Engine visit
Samuel Pepys Story Teller
Artefacts
Music session
Photographs
Word Processing
Create images.
Programming - Use different programmes.
Hot places – desert islands. Locate on map/globe.
Art
Investigation - Floating and sinking.
Biology 1. - Ourselves and animals. Name and identify different animals –
omnivores, herbivores and carnivores.
Name and identify different animals – fish
amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals.
Christmas
(2 weeks)
Carnival Exhibition Van
Carnival making morning with their adult.
Design and make a carnival costume.
Visit from a costume designer.
Carnival Parade
Read aloud poems and poems to recite Poems on a theme
Labels, lists and captions.
Logging-on
Typing names
Create text and images
Safety
Programming
Self-portraits – ICT and camera
How we change and stay the same as we grow –
similarities and differences (linked with SEAL)
Sequence photos to retell and tell a story.
Barnaby Bear staying each child – visiting different settings.
PE
Visitor - Man from story mountain
Australian artefacts
Australian food
Finding Nemo (DVD)
Australian tourist
Stories from a range of cultures
Traditional stories
Instructions (read and follow)
Story maps
Recount a traditional story from another
culture.
Key stories
Instructions
To be taught discreetly following Block A, B, C, D and E with links made if possible
Numeracy
London’s Burning
(3 weeks)
Carnivals
(2 weeks)
Samba
London’s Burning – alter lyrics
Add and use instruments
Christmas songs
Carols
Fire Brigade
Artefacts
Story teller
Parents to see the Christmas production
Display
Thank you letter to Fire Service.
FS & KS1 Nativity
Christmas gifts and cards to taken home.
Christmas around the world booklet.
Raffle tickets and refreshments during the
Carnival Parade.
Visits/
Visitors
Mum and baby
Fair ground
Autumn walk around School.
Westfield Church – Harvest Festival.
Adrian – Man from Story Mountain
Australian tourist – share experiences.
Outcome
All about me display
Booklets displays in the reading area and shared with
family and friends.
Autumn display
Harvest Celebration at local church to say Thank you to God
Australia Display – in class and
corridor.
Take carnival carts to Bridgwater Town
Hall for exhibition.
View other carnival carts in the
Bridgwater Carnival Exhibition.
Parents to come to carnival parade.
Carnival Parade/presentation to parents
and members of the Carnival clubs.
Display.