1. All About Me & Where I live Mrs Holden and Mr Marland
English
Poetry
The children will listen to and share acrostic poems that describe a setting and characters. This will build upon their understanding of adjectives and encourage them to use adjectives in their writing.
Fiction
In line with our work on the Primary Writing Project we will be learning the story The Tiger Who Came To Tea by Judith Kerr using story maps and actions and focus on describing the characters using adjectives. We will then create some stories of our own based upon the book.
Non-fiction
The children will be learning what labels and captions are used for within non-fiction text and writing their own labels and captions.
All About Me & Where I live
Autumn Term
Year 1
Mrs Holden and Mr Marland
Maths
Read and write numbers to 20; use knowledge of place value to position them on a number line.
Count on and back in 1s, 2s, 5s and 10s.
Relate addition to counting on.
Understand subtraction as ‘take away’.
Visualise and name common 2D shapes and 3D solids
Estimate and measure the length of objects.
Describe direction, position and movement including whole, half, quarter and three-quarter turns.
Describe ways of solving puzzles and problems, explaining choices and decisions orally or using pictures.
Time – Sequence events in chronological order
PSHE and Citizenship
SEAL Theme 1: New Beginnings
The children will be discussing their likes and dislikes, understand what is fair and unfair and what is right and wrong. They will understand how they belong to a group or community such as family and school. They will learn how to recognise how their behaviour affects other people.
P.E.
Dance
We will be exploring and creating different movements with our bodies.
Throwing and Catching
The children will be developing their co-ordination skills by throwing and catching various objects such as beanbags and large and small balls.
Geography
Locational Knowledge
The children will be investigating their local area and identify where Northwich is in the UK. They will make maps and plans and they will express their own views about places and environments and use appropriate geographical vocabulary.
Science
Animals including humans
Linked with our Non-Fiction unit in English the children will be naming and labelling main parts of the body and identify how people are different. They will explore how we change as we get older and investigate the different senses.
Seasonal Changes
We will be making observations on the weather, temperature and what the trees look like at this time of year.
Computing
Instructions
The children will be taught about algorithms and learn how to control a Beebot. This will be linked with Geography and our trip to Verdin Park by using Beebots and programming them to follow a simple map.
Creating Text and Images
Linked with our Science we will be using a labelling program on the Ipads to label parts of the human body.
Art
Self Portraits
We will study the artist Vincent Van Gogh and how he drew and painted portraits. The children will learn drawing skills to build up their self portrait. They will look closely at the arrangement of facial features and interpret these using a range of media.
Design & Technology
We will be designing and creating period houses linked with our History topic about the Great Fire of London. RE
We will be thinking about what it means to belong to a family and then explore what it means to belong to a religious community. We will find out what happens during a Christian baptism and compare this with a naming ceremony.
Music
The children will be singing familiar songs and learning how to fit their own words and actions to create new songs and exploring the use of sounds to represent different parts of the body (linked with our Science).
History
We will studying significant national past events such as the Fire of London and why we celebrate Bonfire Night. We will also be involved in our whole school project of the Lion Salt Works.