Year 1

English         

During Summer 1 our focus text will be The Boy Who Sailed the World by Julia Green and during Summer 2 we will focus on Rapunzel by Bethan Woollvin.  Through these texts we will draft and write by composing and rehearsing sentences orally and sequence sentences to form short narratives. In our narrative work, we will create settings, characters and plots. We will write for different purposes, including fictional personal experiences and fictional narratives. We will also re-read our own writing to check it makes sense.

When reading, we will begin to increase familiarity with a range of books, explain and discuss understanding and discuss the sequence of events in them. We continue to develop our prosody, and we will answer and ask questions about what has been read.

In phonics sessions, we will revise graphemes, tricky and high frequency words from Phase 5 and look at alternative pronunciations of graphemes.

Maths           

We will be using the NCETM framework to support our mathematical learning. We will be exploring numbers 0 – 20, as well as counting in twos, fives and tens, and also introducing the basics of time and money. We will also be learning about position and direction.

In number, we will reinforce some concepts previously taught in addition and increase the complexity of number comparisons and number patterns. We will begin by counting in tens and ones, followed by using number bonds to partition numbers.

History         

We will be looking at how explorers have changed the world in History. We will describe and explain how an explorer is significant and how they have impacted people’s lives.

Design Technology (DT)                 

In Summer 1 we will be making a moving storybook and then in Summer 2 we will design, decorate and make a puppet based on fairy tales.

Music            

In Music this term, Year 1 will look at a traditional story and create a musical accompaniment while focusing on the pitch element. The children will follow a conductor and change tempo and pitch to match sections of the story. After half-term, the children will focus on duration and reading notation.  Rhythm and singing games will help them learn to recognise minims, crotchets, and quavers symbols. They will learn to move and change tempo in relation to symbols and then progress to using classroom percussion, mat drumming, and body percussion to play notated rhythms and dynamics.        

Computing  

Programming – We will be introduced to on-screen programming through ScratchJr. We will use programming blocks to use, modify, and create programs. We will also be introduced to the early stages of program design through the introduction of algorithms.

Physical Education (PE)                   

This term we will be focusing on invasion games where we will develop our understanding of attacking and defending and what being 'in possession' means. Then we will move on to athletics as we prepare for Sports Day.

Religious Education (RE)       

In Summer 1 we will be learning about Places of Worship and during the final half-term we will be exploring Religion and Rituals.

Personal, Social, Health Economic (PSHE) / Relationships & Sex Education (RSE)  

Health and wellbeing – we will learn about what it means to be healthy, about different types of play and people who can help us to stay healthy.

Safety and the changing body – We will learn about how to keep safe online, why some things have age restrictions and who to tell if we see something that makes us feel unhappy, worried or scared. We will also learn to understand that there are hazards in houses and know how to avoid them, and we will be able to name jobs that people do to help keep us safe.