Class 1 Year A Rolling Programme
OURSELVES
Global
DVD Comparing lives of babies in Namibia, Mongolia, USA, Japan
Diversity Awareness- Try different activities using no hands, legs, blindfold, sign language etc
World Food-‘What’s in the pan, Man?” story. Make ‘gumbo’ soup.
Where does food come from?
Oxfam unit-‘Our Food, Our World’
Essential/Luxury, hierarchy of needs. Does everyone have the same? Rights of the Child.
Action
Baby visitor. Bring in your pets.
Design and make spectacles as part of “Anna’s Amazing Multi-coloured Spectacles” story
Collect “Sounds” and “Colours” for Sound/Colour Collector poetry.
Create own “Baby Brains” story using photographs of themselves/ipads
Smelling and tasting experiments.
Cooking
Sing songs eg ‘Dem Bones’ “Head, shoulders, knees and toes’ Colour songs, “Wee Wee Tot etc
Listen to, tell and write stories. Create poetry about our senses.
Learn and perform ‘Talk for Writing’ texts.
Sequence instructions for cooking.
Art-Produce symmetrical half photograph portraits, pets & ‘Dogger’ paintings. Weaving. Mixing colour art.
Make ‘How to Stay Healthy’ and ‘How to look after a pet’ booklets.
Create ‘Dem Bones’ music, sing songs.
Parent visitors-jobs in the community.
Our pets.
‘ Things that are important to us’. Our toys, “Dogger’ story.
Babies in our lives. ‘Baby Brains’ story.
Baby Clinic-what happens there?
Who looks after us in the community?
Make woven mats in different colours for Vicarage residents.
What can/can’t babies do? “Baby Brains” story.
How do we look after a pet? ‘Bob and Brian’ guinea pig story.
Bones, names, how they work. Skeleton from the academy “Funnybones’ story.
What materials are needed to make a puppy’s bed? Design and make. (Dogger’s puppies)
What happens to our bodies when we exercise?
Investigate our senses. “The Very Noisy Night’,
What happens when we mix colours? “Anna’s Amazing….Spectacles” story
Communication
Community
Enquiry
Class 1 Year A Rolling Programme
FIRE AND LIGHT
Global
Forest Fires around the world, including Australia- “Wombat’s Tale”
Fire fighting around the world.
Looking after our planet/locality. How do we prevent fires?
Why is fire important? Human rights/needs.
Owl, Bat habitats –looking after environments.
Action
Design timber framed houses, make from cardboard boxes and burn!
Owls visitors
Watch a burning fire. Collect vocabulary for poetry.
Act out the story of The Great Fire of London. “Magic Grandad’ video in History.
Learn the bat’s ‘Echolocation’ song, ‘London’s Burning’ etc
Use ICT ‘Great Fire of London’ website activities.
Which materials are flammable? Test them!
Owl Babies Tf W text. Listen learn and adapt for own version.
Fire and Dark poetry
Dark and Night stories-“A Dark, Dark Tale” TfW,-write own version, “Some Things Are Scary” booklets
“Dark at the Top of the Stairs” story-role-play. Sequence events.
Owl/Bat booklets. TfW Non-Fiction text.
Draw/Paint owls, Fire paintings. bat puppets, fire engines,
Sequence GFoL events. Write own ‘Samuel Pepys’ exert of GFoL
Trip to Taunton Fire-Station
How do we keep ourselves safe from fire? Fire safety.
Nocturnal creatures in our own locality
Invite Vicarage residents to see Owl visitors with us?
Evening Walk around the school/rec grounds
Communication
Community
Enquiry
How did the Great Fire of London start and spread? Who was Samuel Pepys?
London. Where is it? Other capital cities?
What will happen when we burn our cardboard houses?
Investigate owls and bats
Why is night dark?
Other nocturnal animals.
What happens if we bury a cheese? (Samuel Pepys)
Class 1 Year A Rolling Programme
OUR WORLD
Global
Look after habitats-rivers
What happens if too little/too much water? How does it affect people?
Which crops can grow in different environments?
Means of transport around the world.
“Tiddalik the Frog’–story from another culture-billabongs
What chores do you have to do? What about other children in the world? (Cinderella)
Action
Trip to canal and steam train (Wind in the Willows)
Grow wheat, make bread. (Liitle Red Hen)
Plant beans and pumpkins (Jack and the Beanstalk and Cinderella)
Design and make boats and other vehicles.
Make a Cinderella coach from vegetables!
Make Plum Pie!
Design and customise own “Cinderalla” slippers from daps.
Wind in the Willows story-role-play, DVD, write character profiles, poems, etc
Animal homes-non-fiction
Create ‘How to Grow a Plant’ booklet
Learn “Each, Peach. Pear, Plum” poetry
TfW Fairy Tales-write own versions. Cinderella, Jack and the Beanstalk, Little Red Hen, The Enormous Turnip.
Art-Wind in the Willows, Fairy Tale links ,
Singing/Music
What is grown in the fields around our school? What grows in the school grounds?
Canals, trains, roads, rivers in our locality
Visit river, canal in Hambridge, (and School trip as above)
Recite ‘Each, Peach…” to residents of Vicarage, and share own Fairy Tales?
Local policeman visit (link to Mr Toad)
Discuss Bullying (Cinderella) and how we can deal with it.
What vehicles were used for transport in the past? “Magic Grandad” video.
What vehicles are used today (See Global)
What do seeds need to grow? Does it matter which way up you plant a seed? Which seeds will germinate first?
Investigate creatures that live around/in rivers?
Explore floating and sinking
Communication
Community
Enquiry
Class 1 Year B Rolling Programme
HOMES
Global
Different homes around the World
Other children’s bedrooms
Stories from other cultures
Island life- Katie Morag
Origin of cooking ingredients
Action
Build 3 pigs houses,
Make Little Red Hen bread, 3 bears porridge and gingerbread men, flapjacks
Make old toy cone and ball
Design and make a home for Jolly Tall
Make old fashioned lemonade
Puppets shows/role-play of fairy tales, Sing songs
Communication
Community
Enquiry
Re-tell fairy tales
Make fairy tales pictures using ICT
Drawings/paintings of toys, houses, Katie Morag characters, fairy tales
Perform talk for writing texts
Katie Morag ‘Grand Concert’
Write stories, poetry and non-fiction
Village walk- local environment, seasonal changes, old/new houses
Our toys, old toys
Toy museum
Traditional UK Fairy tales
Local and UK maps
Jobs-here and in the Hebrides
Share fairy Tales with Vicarage residents
How to make a strong 3 Billy Goats bridge
How to make a chair for baby bear
Which material is best for a sledge to slide?
What materials are houses made from?
Explore animal homes
What are/were toys made from?
What were homes like 100 years ago?
Class 1 Year B Rolling Programme
DINOSAURS
Global
Where on a world map were dinosaur fossils found.
How to look after environments such as ponds for frogs, plants for butterflies etc
Different egg laying creatures world-wide.
Dragon’s in mythology around the world, Chinese New Year
Bearded dragon
Action
Hatch hens eggs, frogs spawn, butterfly eggs
Make dragon spells/potions
Make miniature dinosaur environments
Plan, prepare and shop for a Dinosuar Stomp party
Make a dragon’s egg nest
How to train a dragon
Communication
Community
Enquiry
Drawings, paintings, sculptures, songs of dinosaurs
Dragon art, music, songs, role-play, Dragon Lady,
Write dragon and dinosaur stories/poems
Write non-fiction about dinosaurs, frogs, hens, butterflies
Use ICT to explore dinosaurs
Perform dinosaur Talk for writing text
Frogspawn in our ponds
Lyme Regis trip
Plant plants for butterflies
Bearded dragon pet visit
Send copies of Sylvia the dragon pictures/stories to the vicarage
Which creatures hatch from eggs?
Who was Mary Anning?
What different types of dinosaur were there?
What happened to dinosaurs?
What are fossils?
Which things float, sink, dissolve, dilute?
Class 1 Year B Rolling Programme
JOURNEYS
Global
Different environments-jungle, arctic, Kalahari desert,
Explore animals and their habitats
Meerkat Manor DVD
World map
Means of transport in the world
Families- other children in the world, Rights of the Child
Action
Make ice-lollies
Create own aiport and trip around the world
Move like different jungle animals, create music
Make vehicles to transport Meerkat luggage!
Create meerkat miniature world
Perform stories using puppets
Tree frogs art 3D models
Re-tell/write stories- Meerkat, Mail, Jungle Book, arctic stories
Poetry-Jungle animal, snowman
Passports, tickets, luggage labels
Animal art, ice/snow collage
Non-fiction writing about different animals, Guess what I am descriptions
Write letters, postcards, make phone calls (as Sunny the meerkat)
Communication
Community
Enquiry
Compare our locality with jungle, desert, snow/ice
What jobs do people do at an airport?
Journeys that we make, where do we go to travel using different transport
What annoys us about our families, like Sunny the meerkat!
Jungle book- orphan Mowgli, significance of our families
Which material is best to make a pond liner for the meerkats?
Where will an ice cube melt first? Melting ice hand.
What material is best to keep an ice-cube from melting?
What animals live in the jungles?
How do you make a bulb light? Electric circuits