Cross Curricular LinksSpeaking and Listening
Listen and respond appropriately. Ask relevant questions.
Build vocabulary. Articulate own ideas.
Describe, explain and narrate for different purposes; express
feelings. Keep listeners interested.
Reading
Read aloud phonics based books; reread and develop fluency
and confidence. Share and discuss poems like King John by AA
Milne and recite by heart. Share and discuss legends like Robin
Hood. Share and discuss non-fiction writing like instructions
and recounts. Link reading to own experiences. Retell familiar
stories. Join in with familiar or repeated phrases.
Phonics Decode words using phonics. Match graphemes for all
phonics. Blend sounds in unfamiliar words. Read high frequency
and tricky words.
Science
Seasonal Change Children should observe changes across the
four seasons
They will observe and describe weather associated with the
seasons and how day length varies.
Growing Plants
Children will learn to name the parts of plants and explore what
plants need to grow namely water light and warmth.
Ourselves
Children will understand more about senses and eating healthily.
Pushes and Pulls
Children will explore how objects can start, stop or change
direction because of pushes and pulls.
Summer Term, Year 1 Mrs Elgy
Spell: words containing each of the 40+ phonemes;
common exception words and days of the week.
Children will be able to name all the letters of the
alphabet. Use common prefixes and suffixes. Children
will learn and apply spelling rules. Children will write
simple dictated sentences.
Handwriting Children will form correctly lower case
letters, capitals and digits. Children will practice
handwriting in letter families.
Writing Children will compose sentences orally before
writing. Children will use sentences to form short
narratives. Reread sentences to check they make sense.
Discuss and read aloud own writing. Leave spaces
between words. Join words and clauses using and.
Begin to use basic punctuation . ? !
Learn and apply grammar rules.
Measure Compare, describe, measure, record and
solve problems for lengths, weights, capacities, volumes and times,
Recognise coins and notes,
Sequence events chronologically using ordering language,
Use language relating to dates,
Tell the time to the hour and half hour
PE
Swimming
Children will learn to swim using a range
of strokes
Athletics
Field Team Games
Children will continue to develop their
basic movement skills. They will develop
their hand to eye co-ordination with
throwing catching and striking skills.
Children will participate in team games.
Magna Carta
Maths
Number Count to/across 100, Count in 1s, 2s, 5s and 10s. Identify one more and one less
Read and write numbers to 20 in words and numerals,
Use objects and pictures to represent numbers, Use language of caparison,
Use +,- and = signs, Know number bonds to 20,
Add and subtract numbers 0 to 20,
Solve one step problems recognise and use ½ and ¼
Shape and space Recognise and name common 2D and 3D shapes,
Describe postition, direction and movement including ½ and ¼ turns.
PSHCE
Art and Design
Children will explore the work of famous French artists
namely Van Gogh, Monet and Rousseau as part of studies
about a range of artists, craft makers and designers.
Children will produce art work linked to our Salisbury
Cathedral trip on the Magna Carta and design and make a
Baron’s shield. They will use a range of materials. They
will use drawing painting and sculpture. They will
develop techniques of colour, pattern, line, shape, form
and space.
Design and Technology
Design purposeful, functional and appealing products. They
will generate, develop, model and communicate ideas to
create a moving theatre. They will explore and use
mechanisms.
They will select from and use a range of tools and materials.
The will evaluate existing products and own ideas and
products. Use sewing to design and create a mobile phone
case.
Building a Healthy future
Children will think about voting
and democracy. They will think
about rules and consequences.
RE
Why do Christians believe in God?
Children will explore the idea of the 10
commandments. Children will think about
the Christian Creation story. They will
think about God as creator and the
wonderful world we live in.
Geography
Physical geography Children will identify
seasonal and daily weather patterns in the United
Kingdom.
Geographical skills and fieldwork Children will
explore maps and plans. Using a bird’s eye view.
Locational knowledge Year 1 will identify the
four locations of surviving copies of the Magna
Carta including Salisbury.
History
Children will continue to develop an awareness of chronology;
and a sense of time. They will develop their vocabulary with the
days of the week and months of the year and also yesterday, last
week, last year.
We shall look at events beyond living memory that are
significant; Magna Carta 1215.
Year 1 will also consider the lives of significant individuals in
the past who have contributed to national and international
achievements e.g. King John.
Children will study local history through our trip to Salisbury
Cathedral.