Title and duration: Let’s Play - 7 weeks
Year group: Year 1
Description: During this topic the children will have lots of chance to play in the different areas of their
classroom including the outdoor areas. They will learn playground games that they can use at playtime and
lunchtime. The topic will include a visit to the local park linked to the Percy the Park Keeper stories.
Hook: Parachute and outdoor games as well as a visit to Liphook Play Park.
Learning Values
Quality Texts
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Perseverance– we will discuss the need to persevere especially when
trying new things.
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Learning Tools—we will discuss what learning tools we can use around
the class to help us
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Communication—we will use our talk partners and work in groups to create and discuss our float designs
Geography
Using photographs, observing and
asking questions to find out about
our local area. Expressing our own
views about our locality and drawing
maps to describe journeys.
Percy the Park Keeper Stories
Pumpkin Soup
Traditional Tales
Nursery Rhymes
Science
Literacy
We will be using stories with familiar
settings such as the Percy the Park
Keeper texts to look at storybook
characters and settings. During a non
-fiction unit we will use labels lists
and captions linked to our Science
and R.E.
Identify and name common trees
and plants including deciduous and
evergreen trees.
Naming the basic structure of
plants such as flowers and trees.
P.E. : We will be learning how to safely use the big apparatus in Gymnastics this half term.
ICT: This term we will be learning how to use the Beebot programmable toys.
ART/ DT: Drawing and painting skills linked to mapwork, making equipment for a play
park.
PDL: Working well together , classroom rules and co-operation. Discussing the Golden
Code.
PSHE/RE: Caring for our environment and discussing Special Places.
SMSC: We all have the right to a clean and safe environment and therefore we all need
to respect our environment.
Potential links to local, national, international communities: DT work links to the local play park
and when mapping the locality we will discuss local facilities and businesses.
Outcome: Making a playtime book and having a games morning with parents!