Year 1 – Summer term
Context for learning: Animal Kingdom
As musicians we will:
~ Choose an appropriate instrument to make the sound
of an animal.
~ Put together a sequence of sounds to represent a
certain animal.
As geographers we will:
As artists we will:
~ Use
~ Explore the work of the
artist Henri Matisse.
~ Develop the skill of
collage
~ Investigate the use of
colour
~ Create out own version
of Matisse’s ‘Snail’
atlases and maps to locate different habitats around the
world.
~ Create our own map for an animal kingdom.
~ Explore the features of different habitats.
~ Locate different countries in Africa.
~ Explore the way of life for an African tribe.
As writers we will:
As mathematicians we will:
~ Learn to ask addition and subtraction questions in
different ways.
~ add and subtract 20 to a number and work out the answer.
~ Add multiples of 10 to any number up to 50.
~ Find out the number that is 10 more and 10 less than
multiples of 10.
~ Become secure in reading and writing numbers above 20.
~ Solve problems involving counting, adding, subtracting,
doubling or halving in the context of numbers, measures
or money, for examples to pay and give change.
~ Describe and match a shape using mathematical
features such as sides, corners, faces.
~ Relate addition to counting on; recognise that addition
can be done in any order; use practical and informal
written methods to support the addition of a one-digit
number or a multiple of 10 to a one-digit or two-digit
number.
~ Understand subtraction as ‘take away’ and find a
‘difference’ by counting up.
+ =
~ Write a non-chronological report about owls.
~ Create a forest poem.
~ Write a description of a forest setting.
~ Create a fact file about David Attenborough.
~ Write a diary entry from a character.
~ Create our own adventure story.
~ Create fact files for different animals.
~ Write a riddle for a rainforest animal.
~ Write an explanation text titled The Life Cycle
of a Butterfly.
Hooks for learning:
~ Trip to the Welsh Mountain Zoo.
~ Take part in an animal picnic
~ Explore habitats around our school environment.
~ Use the woodland trail as a stimulus for writing.
As citizens we will:
~ Learn about the values co-operation and reflection.
~ Recognise times when I feel cared for and when I
have cared for others.
~ Understand what a habit is and know that it is hard
to change one.
Role Play Opportunities: A safari jeep and
explorers hut.
Children will:
~ Engage in a variety of writing outcomes.
~ Play the role of different animals and
people on safari
As scientists we will:
Growing Plants
~ name a range of common plants found around the
school grounds.
~ Describe the types of places where a range of
plants grow.
~ Make simple descriptions of a range of plants.
~ Describe the changes that have occurred that
indicate that a plant has grown.
~ Recognise the roots, leaves, stems and
flowers on a range of plants.
~ Perform a range of throwing and catching
skills with control.
~ Learn to throw a tennis ball accurately
~Practise holding a racket in order to hit a
ball.
~ Hit a ball in a planned direction.
~ Move safely across a variety of different
apparatus.
~ Jump and land safely off different
apparatus.
~ Move in a variety of different ways across
apparatus.
In RE we will:
~ Talk about the meaning of everyday
symbols.
~ Identify different Christian
symbols.
~ Discuss how memories are linked to
particular objects.
~ Design our own badge to trigger a
memory.
Light and Dark
~ Name and sort a variety of different light sources.
~ Make comparisons between a range of different light
sources.
~ recognise that a shiny object needs a light source if it
is to shine.
~ learn that some torches are a better source of light
than others.
~ Understand that the sun is a source of light even when
it is behind a cloud.
~ Discuss the differences between day/night time and
dark/light.
In PE we will:
(Tennis and Apparatus)
As designers we will:
~ Design and evaluate
~ Use a range of materials to create models with wheels and
axels.
~Mark out materials to be cut using a template.
~ Join different materials appropriately using glue or tape.
~ Cut along lines, straight and curved.
As PC’s we will:
~ Use ICT to create texts.
~Explore changing the font, size and
colour of text.
~ Use the space bar to make a single
space in between words.
~ Use a capital letter and full stop.