Primary Focus: Geography
Literacy
Children will:
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Write imaginative stories using ‘wow’
words.
Write poems inspired by Rainforest
animals.
Use capital letters and full stops,
extending to using exclamation marks
and question marks.
Learn to write a letter using the
correct format.
Write a short newspaper report.
Discuss the differences between
fiction and non-fiction text.
Other areas of Learning
RE:
Children will:
Recognise, name and describe some
religious artefacts, places and practices.
Describe some of the main festivals
or celebrations of a religion
History:
Children will:
Learn about Queen Elizabeth II and her reign.
Use chronological order to date monarchs.
PSHE:
Children will:
Have a greater understanding of themselves
and how to manage their own emotions.
Computing:
Children will:
Learn to program a Bee-Bot using a series of
instructions.
Write a simple code.
Children will:
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Numeracy
Have a greater understanding of Long Crendon and its
position within the world.
Compare Long Crendon with a village in Brazil, looking at
the human and physical features of both.
Have a greater understanding of continents and oceans.
Use atlases and globes to locate Brazil and the Amazon
Rainforest.
Identify weather patterns in both the UK and Brazil, in
particular the Amazon Rainforest.
Identify animals that live in the Rainforest.
Have an understanding of the effect of climate change
in the Amazon Rainforest.
Year 1 Spring Term:
Medium Term Plan (Skills)
The Amazon Rainforest
(Brazil)
Visual Arts
Art:
Children will:
Sketch, shade and paint a variety of Rainforest creatures to
create a Rainforest display.
Study and sketch plants from the local environment.
DT:
Children will:
Design, make and evaluate a pop up/sliding card.
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Continue to work on all key focuses
from the Autumn term particularly
counting forwards and backwards
to 100.
Write number sentences to solve
simple problems.
Count in 2’s, 5’s and 10’s.
Partition numbers into tens and
units.
Use a hundred square to find 10
more and 10 less than a given
number.
Tell the time to o’clock and half
past and extend to quarter past
and quarter to.
Discrete Subjects
PE: Gymnastics, tennis and dance.
Children will:
Develop an understanding of the effect
exercise has on their bodies.
Create short sequences using equipment.
Develop the skills in order to play a game
of tennis.
Science: Plants and animals in the UK and
Brazil.
Children will:
Identify and name a variety of common
plants
Describe and compare the structure of a
variety of common animals (birds, fish,
amphibians, reptiles, mammals
and invertebrates, including pets).
Phonics: Jolly phonics and Letters and
Sounds
Outdoor learning: Changing seasons.
Comparing plants in Long Crendon to plants
in the Rainforest.