Year One: Curriculum Outline 2015-16

English

Narrative

Write stories set in places pupils have

been

Write stories with imaginary settings

Write stories and plays that use the

language of fairy tales and traditional
tales

Write stories that mimic significant

authors

Write narrative diaries

Non-fiction

Write labels

Write lists

Write captions

Write instructions

Write recounts

Write glossaries

Present information

Write non-chronological reports

Poetry

Write poems that use pattern, rhyme and

description
Write nonsense and humorous poems and
limericks

Topic theme

This is Me!

Once upon a
time

Alien Invasion

Farm to Fork

Under the sea

In Our Dreams /
Enchanted

Olivers Vegetables
Farmer Duck
Little Red Hen

Billys Bucket
Under the Sea
Snail and the Whale

Imagine, imagine
You Choose
The Great Fairy-tale
Disaster
Mixed up fairy tales
There are an awful lot
of weirdos (poems)

Goole / Canon Hall

Farm

The Deep

Key text

L is for Love
The great big book
of families.
Big!
I want to be.
Autumn Poems

Visit

Walk around local

area visit local
park.
(link to senses
poem)

3 Little pigs
Jack and the
Beanstalk
The tunnel
Shh! Santa
Nativity

Pantomime in to
school.

Here come the Aliens.

Two little Aliens
Laika the Dog
The Obourne book of
stars and planet
Winter Poems

Science Lab: making

foam aliens.

No Visit or trip
planned.

Farmers Lunch.

Key Question

Science
seasonal
changes

WOW DAY at
Usher Street
Where do the
leaves go in
winter?
Who lives in my
house?
(family tree)
What have people
from Bradford
gone on to do?
Seasonal change
(Autumn)

Senses
The Human Body.

History

Famous people
from Bradford:
David Hockney,
Bronte sisters, JB
Priestley, Harry
Corbett (Sooty),
Titas Salt.
significant events
in history in local
area.

What is through the

tunnel?
What material would
be the strongest to
build a house?

Has man ever visited

the moon? Neil
Armstrong.

Everyday MaterialsWhat material would

be the strongest.

What do Aliens think

of life on Planet
Earth?
The different
planets- ordering
and making
information books.

Distinguishing an
object and the
material from which
it is made.
Growing- beanstalks.

Why is Bonfire Night

celebrated?

How does our dinner

get from the farm to
our plate?

Why is a shark not

like a cat?

Where can you

imagination take you?
What would it be like
to live in different
parts of the world?

Plants/ animals.
How do plants grow?
How do you eat to be
healthy?
Making Bread

Sea animals and their

habitats/ features of
animals.

Habitats of people and

animals.

Summer

Winter
Amphibians, fish,
mammals, reptiles,
birds.

Herbivores,
carnivores. and
omnivores

Winter.

Significant people
from history- Neil
Armstrong

Christopher
Columbus where did
he go and what did
he do.

Captain Cook- where

did he go on his
travels?

Geography

My local area- map

work, human
geography- map
from school to
park)

Features of humans
around the worldcities, farms,
harbours etc.

The Earth from

space,
Introducing the
globe

All about UK- 4

countries, seas
surround, capital
cities- using aerial
maps.
Foods from around
the world.
Weather over time.

Art/DT/Music

Computing

Computing

Andy Waholl: Pop

art
Picasso: Colours
and linking to
emotions.
David Hockneylocal area collage.
How are they the
same/different
Music: body
percussions.
Self Portraits:
shading, colour
mixing
2simple All about
me booklet
Draw a picture of
themselves: to
write about
themselves
underneath.
Using the internet
Can they find and save
relevant information
and images on the
internet?
Do they begin to use
note making skills to
decide what text to
copy?

Bricks, straw, sticks

houses.
Collaging other side
of tunnel.
Christmas arts and
crafts.

Make Planets- paper

Mache.
Popsicle planets.
Music- what would
space sound like.

Archimboldo- fruit
and veg art work.
Observational
drawings of fruit:
shading

Design and make a

space ship.

The world we live in

map reading, animals
in different habitats.
5 oceans/ equatorusing aerial maps.
Climate.
Compass Skills- links
to Christopher
Columbus.
WOW Day: Turtle,
jellyfish, jellyfish
bowl, fish,
researching.
Design and make a
space ship a shoe
Box Aquarium.

People who live in hot

and cold places.
Comparing different
parts of the world
(physical features)
7 continents- map
reading skills.

Collaging different
parts of the worlddifferent media.
Using Knex to make a
mode of transport.

Mixing colours.
Vivaldi: Four
seasons- link to PE

I Book

Presentation
Can they create a
presentation that
moves from slide to
slide and is aimed at a
specific audience?
Can they combine text,
images and sounds
and show awareness
of audience?

Music to emotionlink to PE.

Animations
Researching

LINK TO MATHS:
Robots, turningforward, backwards,
turns, quarter.

Different animals
music i.e. which
instrument for which
animal. Class music
composition.

Music from Africa,

Kenya, Hong Kong,
amazon, Icelandrecreating music.
Rainforest
composition.

Algorithms

Create their own

program.

Data retrieval

Programming

Databases

Can they review images

on a camera and delete
unwanted images?
Can they use photo
editing software?

Can they experiment with

variables to control
models?
Can they write more
complex programs?

Can they input data into a

prepared database?
Can they sort and search a
database to answer simple
questions?
Can they use a branching
database?