Curriculum Overview: Key Stage 1
Year 1 Topic 1
Food
In this topic we’ll be:
 Setting up a café in our classroom
 Identifying foods including fruits and
In Literacy we’ll be working on:
 Instructions
 Traditional tales
vegetables
 Senses poem
 Cooking all kinds of food and watching
 Acrostic Poems
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how it changes
Making pictures of food
Printing with different foods
Finding out where different foods come
from
Growing some food from seeds
Year 1 Topic 2
Changes
In this topic we’ll be:
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In Literacy we’ll be working on:
Making ice, jelly and chocolate shapes
 Stories with predictable pattern
Learning about young animals changing
 Pattern and rhyme
into adults
 Poem – weather
Exploring sand and water and seeing
 Recounts
how we can change them
 Information texts
Making new shapes
 Explanation
Making loud and soft music
 Finding out about the weather
 Acrostic Poems
Year 1 Topic 3
Transport
In this topic we’ll be:
 Setting up a role play depot, station or
airport
 Learning about different types of
vehicles
 Visiting areas of interest e.g. bus depot,
train station, airport etc.
 Exploring vehicles e.g. diggers in sand,
boats in the water
 Designing and making models
 Going on a pretend magic carpet ride
In Literacy we’ll be working on:
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Stories with a predictable pattern
Pattern and rhyme
Recounts
Information texts
Stories with familiar settings
Explanation
Acrostic Poems
Year 1 Topic 4
Up and Away
In this topic we’ll be:
 Designing and making our own kites
 Playing and making pictures with
bubbles
 Making a hot air balloon
 Playing with the parachute
 Finding out about kite festivals in other
countries and holding our own
In Literacy we’ll be working on:
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Recounts
Instructions
Stories with familiar settings
Acrostic Poems
Year 1 Topic 5
Animals
In this topic we’ll be:
 Setting up and exploring our own jungle
and pet store
 Pretending to be animals, looking at
noises and movement
 Finding out about their habitats
 Visiting a zoo
 Baking some animal biscuits
 Naming animals and talking about their
features, similarities and differences
 Finding out about animals and their
young
In Literacy we’ll be working on:
 Acrostic Poems
 Stories with familiar settings
 Information texts
British Values Key
The highlighted areas of this document indicate which area of British Values they relate to;
Democracy
Respect of the law
Individual Liberty
Mutual respect and tolerance