Bardfield Academy: Curriculum Overview Planning
Topic: The Great Fire of London History
MATHEMATICS Number:
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identify and represent numbers using objects and pictorial representations
including the number line, and use the language of: equal to, more than,
less than (fewer), most, least
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read and write numbers from 1 to 20 in numerals and words.
Calculation:
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read, write and interpret mathematical statements involving addition (+),
subtraction (-) and equals (=) signs
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solve one-step problems that involve addition and subtraction, using
concrete objects and pictorial representations, and missing number
problems such as 7 = - 9.
Measures:
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compare, describe and solve practical problems for:
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lengths and heights (e.g. long/short, longer/shorter, tall/short, double/half)
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mass or weight (e.g. heavy/light, heavier than, lighter than)
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capacity/volume (full/empty, more than, less than, quarter)
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time (quicker, slower, earlier, later)
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measure and begin to record the following:
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lengths and heights
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mass/weight
ART & DESIGN
Chalk colours and black sugar paper of fire.
COMPUTINGDASCO – Year 1 – Term 2
1.1 Understand what algorithms are; how they are implemented as
programs on digital devices; and that programs execute by following
precise and unambiguous instructions
1.2 Create and debug simple programs
1.6 Use technology safely and respectfully, keeping personal
information private; identify where to go for help and support when
they have concerns about content or contact on the internet or other
online technologies
DESIGN & TECHNOLOGY
GEOGRAPHY
Design purposeful, functional, appealing products
for themselves and other users based on design
criteria generate, develop, model and communicate
their ideas through talking, drawing, templates,
mock-ups
Evaluate their ideas and products against design
Name, located and identity charactistics of the four
countries and capital cities of UK and its
surrounding area. Look at London.
MUSIC
Big Question What was it like to live in Stuart
times?
Stimulus Dress up afternoon noon – bread
making
Product Houses
Science
Identify and name a variety of everyday materials, including
wood, plastic, glass, metal and rock.
Describe the simple physical properties of a variety of
everyday materials
Compare and group together a variety of everyday materials
on the basis of their simple physical properties.
Pupils might work scientifically by: performing simple tests
to explore questions, for example: ‘What is the best material
for an umbrella? ...for lining a dog basket? ...for curtains?
...for a bookshelf? ...for a gymnast’s leotard?’
Using their observations and ideas to suggest answers to
questions
HISTORYEvents beyond living memory that are
significant nationally or globally [for example, the
Great Fire of London, the first aeroplane flight or
events commemorated through festivals or
anniversaries]
The lives of significant individuals in the past who
have contributed to national and international
achievements, some should be used to compare
aspects of life in different periods [for example,
Elizabeth I and Queen Victoria, Christopher
Columbus and Neil Armstrong, William Caxton
and Tim Berners-Lee, Pieter Bruegel the Elder and
LS Lowry, Rosa Parks and Emily Davison, Mary
Seacole and/or Florence Nightingale and Edith
Cavell]
Charanga – Little Angel Gets her wings
Songs for Christmas Production
PHYSICAL EDUCATIONGames - master basic movements including running,
jumping, throwing and catching, as well as developing balance, agility and coordination, and begin to apply these in a range of activities
- participate in team games, developing simple tactics for attacking and
defending
Dance
● Explore actions in response to stimuli.will cover in spring 1
● Know and perform basic dance skills in relation to dance ideas.
● Explore a range of movements suitable to the idea and link them together.
● Observe each other dancing and describe what they see.
● Know how their bodies feel after dance activities.
● Improvise to an idea – display and immediate response.
● Choose appropriate movements made to create short phrases and simple
structures.
● Show the understanding of dance, communicating ideas and unfolding
characters in a story.
RELIGIOUS
EDUCATION
Special Words and
Stories – See
SACRE
Looking at
Personal
Experience,
Christianity and an
additional focus on
Hinduism.
Bardfield Academy Curriculum Overview Planning
Topic: The Great Fire of London History
Year 1, Autumn 2
ART & DESIGN
ENGLISH
COMPUTING
N/A
Type letter to Santa and email back.
GEOGRAPHY
DESIGN & TECHNOLOGY
MATHEMATICS
SCIENCE
Look at secondary sources (photos) What were the houses
made of? Why were so many destroyed? What materials
are used nowadays to build homes? Draw/label a picture
and list properties of materials.
Think about 3 little pigs- which materials did they use –
which strongest? Most absorbent? Burns easiest? Suggest
other materials that they could use to build a house.
Link to Samuel Pepys – buried his cheese – what materials
would they use to protect the cheese? Try wrapping a
babybell in different materials and burying in a pot of soil
– Look at it after a week….describe what happened.
Smsc- Discussion- Where do we live?. Chn to write about
their homes and materials they are built with.
Discussion- Where do we live?. Chn to write about their
homes and materials they are built with.
Look at images of Stuart Houses, design own house
– annotate with words/labels.
Make house using cereal boxes and straw roof, lolly
pop beams etc
Use a builders checklist to evaluate whether the
house meets the success criteria Make Houses from
Stuart times.
MODERN LANGUAGES
N/A
HISTORY
Significant individuals: Samuel
Pepys- read diary
Write newspaper report
Comparison between houses from
then and now
Events beyond living memory:
Bonfire Night- story of Guy Fawkes
Recount /diary entry
Planning diary entry, how would we feel?
People who help us- important roles and why e.g. fire fighters.
Response to experiences of making.
MUSIC
The Long and Short of it
Making a range of long and short sounds using
instruments and voice. Identifying long and short
sounds in music.
PHYSICAL EDUCATION
RELIGIOUS EDUCATION
Games
Invasion Games x3
Kicking and striking skills x3
See SACRE.
Dance
Val Sabin Year 1 Unit 1
(Linked to Christmas performance or
topic)
Special Words and Stories
Children to talk about books that are special to
them, special books in religion and special stories
around events- Link to the Christmas Story and
Diwali