Key Stage 1 - Rolling Programme Topic Overview
Year A Planning 2011-2012
Focus of topic - See additional
planning maps for more detail on NC
Topic and
Term
Outcome
attainment and skills being covered.
Topic Name
(science, geography, art etc)
Autumn 1st
governors to join us – Ppls to make
History Focus = How did people
live in the past. Kings and Queens.
Princesses, knights, fairies,
and write invitations and medieval
Science = Ourselves, why are we
where we live, who we are,
dress (lady’s point hats and knights
special? Where do we live? What
kings and queens.
helmet masks) Ppls to make
Who is the King of the castle?
Banquet – invite parents and
authentic stew food and Yr2s to
serve? Ppls to print to make
tablecloth designs, Ppls to show
dance to visitors.
makes us different/same? How our
bodies work.
Materials (How to stop a window
from being drafty)
Traditional tales
Instruction texts
Autumn 2nd
Light up the World
Light up the world art display –
scenery for nativity.
Celebrations around the world.
Ppls to make the programme.
RE and Geography = focus looking at
different cultures, locations around the
world and different faiths, what do we
believe?
Science: Dark and Light
Multi-cultural stories
Nativity performance.
Explanation texts
Sensory Poetry – Firework poetry
Spring 1st
Beep Beep!
Naughty Bus story focus.
Transport
To write and make our own story
using a vehicle.
Travel on a Double Decker Bus.
History = Old and new – making
comparisons. Looking at inventors
of transport. How transport has
changed.
Science = Movement – pushes and
pulls, Changing state – stuck
vehicles.
Stories with familiar settings –
Naughty Bus
Information texts
Poems on a theme (1 week)
Spring 2nd
Picture This!
To have an art gallery of Ppls work –
Art and ICT focus = exploring
using a range of media and skills –
different media, fine and gross
ICT link – using photography and
motor development.
film.
R.E. and RAINBOW = Expressing
personal feelings and emotions.
Fantasy stories
Pattern and rhyme Poetry
Spring 1st
Food Glorious Food!
Come Dine With Me Week!
Where does food come from?
Each day Ppls to cook and try
How do farmers help us?
different cultural foods and review
Geography = Foods around the
world.
Compare and local and distant
locality – food.
in a weekly food log.
Science = Lifecycles, habitats,
To use our knowledge of food
to explore farm life during a
Stories by the same author –
farm visit.
To taste foods from around the
To plan and use an allotment,
world.
Oliver’s Fruit Salad and Oliver’s
Vegetables
Non-chronological reports
(labels, lists, captions)
Poems on a theme (1 week)
Summer 2nd
Ready, Steady, Go!
Olympic theme
To participate in a team event as
P.E. = Keeping healthy and fit.
part of Olympic Sports Day – old
History = old and new sports.
(cardboard boxes covered in hay –
rolling!) and new (bike, run, ‘swim’
under a blue net).
RAINBOW = Team sports,
competing.
Science = Body functions.
Geography = Countries around the
world.
Stories by a significant author
Recounts (fiction/non-fiction)
Year B Planning 2012-2013
Focus of topic - See additional
planning maps for more detail on NC
Topic and
Term
Outcome
attainment and skills being covered.
Topic Name
(science, geography, art etc)
Autumn 1st
Grand Designs
Grand Designs Event – Ppls to design
Art and Design focus = using
and make their own building – Invite
construction, planning and design.
Ourselves, who we are and
parents in to view all entries –
where we live
Governor to judge most innovative
Geography = Eco houses, heating
design for each year group boy and
systems, sustainability.
girl.
Science = Materials and their
properties.
History = Building throughout
history.
Instruction texts (4 weeks)
Traditional Tales (3 weeks)
Autumn 2nd
Land of Ice and Snow
Nativity – Eddie The Penguin Saves
Science = Changing state
the World?? – change narrator to
Fire and Ice
God speaking asking us to help him
look after his precious world. How
can we thank God for all he has done
for us?
History = Great fire of London
Recounts (Fiction and Non-fiction)(4
weeks)
Poems on a theme (2 weeks)
Spring 1st
New Life
Easter (farm)
Easter Craft Workshop with parents
R.E. focus = Easter story Noah’s Ark
– making easter bonnet, garden on a
–
plate, easter biscuits/hot cross
buns.
Finale – Easter parade!
Science = Life cycles
Explanation texts (3 weeks)
Stories with Familiar settings (3
weeks)
Spring 2nd
Wiggly woo
Using knowledge of minibeasts to
Science = minibeasts,
design and make a new minibeasts
bugs
and minibeasts home/habitat.
Geography = habitats and
environments.
Fantasy stories and Stories by a
significant author (Jeannie Willis) (4
weeks)
Pattern and rhyme poetry (1 week)
Summer 1st
There’s a Circus In Town!
Ppls to make posters to advertise
(FS), Ppls to make it a ticketed
Circus skills – Musical Band.
event to raise money for new
Music = Made mouth organ (comb),
oboe straws, hose pipe trumpets,
castanets, drums, tambourine.
classroom resources – (KS1) to agree
ticket price and make tickets.
History = costumes throughout time,
how people spend their spare time –
To perform circus skills to an
audience (invite parents and
governors in to our Circus event)
old and new, different musical
instruments & performances
through time.
Science = Pushes and Pulls/sound
PE/Art focus
Information texts (3 weeks)
Multi-cultural stories (3 weeks)
Summer 2nd
Splish, Splash, Splosh!
To learn how to stay safe near water
Science = Floating and sinking.
and in the sun.
Music = Sound through water,
Water
Beach Week – Milton on Stour
making water flutes.
School Beach, Punch and Judy, Ice
Cream, Teddy bears picnic,
Sandcastle challenge (science) or
going to Charmouth Beach Fossil
Hunting?
Maths – Capacity, symmetry, money.
R.E. = Jonah and the Whale
Non-chronological reports (4 weeks)
Sensory poetry (2 weeks)
Dictionary work (1 week)