Year One
English
Term 1
SPACE
Term 2
FIRE
Term 3
WATER
Term 4
CHOCOLATE
Term 5
GARDENER’S
WORLD
Term 6
FOOD and
FARMING
Key author Jill Murphy
Fiction Focus – Texts:
Whatever next!
How to catch a star
Beegu
Aliens love underpants
Book of Earth Relations
Man on the Moon
The Sea of Tranquillity
Poetry –fireworks
Narrative:
Fireworks (Sam gets
lost).
Non-fiction – fire
safety posters –
instructions
Information texts –
water creatures–
sharks
Fiction - Rainbow
Fish
Tiddler’s Adventures
Stories with
repeating patterns
- Bring the rain to
Kapiti Plain
Poetry – Sea Poems
Information texts –
Finding out how
chocolate is made
Chocolate recipes
Advertisement –
posters, radio and
television advert for
new chocolate bars!
Extended stories
Count in 10s to 100
10 more/less
Doubles to 12;
halves of 24
Adding three 1-dig
numbers using
doubles and bonds
to 10
Measures – capacity
Time hour/ half
hour
Place value –
partitioning – tens
and units
Multiplication and
division – chocolate
based
Finding differences
Measures – weights
Data – pictograms
and block graphs
Labels, lists and
signs – what is in
my garden?
Non-fiction – how
to plant a seed/
seed diary
Fiction – Oliver’s
fruit salad; Hungry
Caterpillar
Songs and
repetitive poems squishy squelchy
worms
Number and
fractions ½ and ¼
of shape / number
Add and subtract 10
to/ from a 2-dig
number
Adding and
subtracting to 10/
bridging 10
Shapes 2D and 3D
Counting in 2s, 5s
10s
Non-fiction –
instructions – how
to make a fruit
kebab/ smoothie
Stories with
repeating patterns
- Handa’s Hen;
Handa’s Surprise
Poems with
Pattern and Rhyme
– Gingerbread man
Poems about
nature
Add and subtract 1dig to / from 2-dig
numbers
Money – totals to
20p and differences
and change
Time – analogue/
digital
Position and
direction
Multiplication – sets
of Division – how
many sets
Marvellous
Materials –
describing materials
Properties of
materials
Marvellous
materials –
Changes of state
Chocolate
investigations
Green Plants basic structures /
classification of
common plants
Green Plants –
plants and growing
Growing from seed
Maths
Counting , ordering
Pairs of numbers within
10
Adding and subtracting
Half/quarter of shape
Symmetrical patterns
Doubling/ Odd and
even
Measure in units of
length
Time – days/months
Science
My brilliant body –
biology
strand
–
Animals
including
humans
How rabbit stole
the fire
The Tiger Child
(Joanna Troughton)
– story telling
Describe basic
shapes
Lists and tables –
sorting
Find one more/one
less
Partition 6,7, 10 into
pairs
Addition,
subtraction
Making totals and
paying
Order days and
moths
Ordinal numbers
Seasonal changes
– day and night /
weather
Light sources/
shadows
Year One
Geography
/
History
Term 1
SPACE
Term 2
FIRE
Term 3
WATER
Term 4
CHOCOLATE
Term 5
GARDENER’S
WORLD
Term 6
FOOD and
FARMING
Space – Universe –
Planets – Planet Earth –
key features of the
planet
Fireworks Story of
Guy Fawkes
The Great Fire of
London
History of a welly
boot/ umbrella/
mackintosh
Oceans, seas, rivers
Where does
chocolate come
from? (Mexico)
Shops now and
then
Exploring own
locality – Doulting
trail and
surrounding area
Farming/
machinery in the
past
From farm to fork
RE – using
locally
agreed RE
syllabus
Christianity focus Why are some stories
special?
Christianity focus Why are some
stories special?
Christmas Story
Christianity focus Why are some
times special?
Christianity focus Why are some
times special?
Easter Story
Christianity and
Hinduism focus Why are places
special?
Christianity and
Hinduism focus Why are places
special?
Art and
Design
Design
Technology
Key Skills – cut, draw,
paint
3D rockets
papier mache planets
Line and shape
designs
Artist study – Henri
Matisse
Mixing colour with
water
Sea dioramas
Design a golden
ticket
Make Easter eggs
Chocolate wrapper
collage
Tone and Texture
and Form
Artist study –
Anthony Gormley
Composition and
arrangement / Food
art
Computing
Basic skills
Using keyboard
Saving
Printing
Basic skills
Using keyboard
Online safety
Store and retrieve
data
Programming
turtles and bots
Debugging and
Programming
Exploring sound –
body percussion and
exploring instruments
Singing songs
Dance – Space theme
PE coach
Seasons – pitch
Christmas
performance songs
Handel’s water
music
Rain, rain, go away
Exploring pulse
and rhythm
Exploring sounds –
instruments from
junk
Exploring timbre,
tempo and
dynamics
Yoga
PE coach
Yoga
PE coach
Gymnastics
PE coach
Multi- skills
PE coach
Athletics
PE coach
New beginnings –
settling into new class;
classroom rules
Relationships
Fire Safety – visit
from a (retired)
fireman
Getting on Falling
out
Friendship bracelets
Good to be me
Recognising feelings
and how to deal
with them
Going for goals
Making achievable
goals
Changes
Transition to Year 2
Music
PE
PSHE
Using drawing and
text packages
How technology is
used in the world
Using drawing and
text packages