Year 1

This term

Year 1 will be reading the range of books listed below, which covers all the subjects in this year's curriculum:

• Anna Hibiscus' Story
• How Does my Fruit Grow?
• The Way Back Home
• Jolly Postman
• Poems about Festivals
• Florence Nightingale
• Traction Man
• Belonging
• Diary of a Spider
• Jim and the Beanstalk
• Say Hi to Hedgehogs
• Aesop's Fables
• A New Home for a Pirate

The topics we will be covering this term are:

English - Winter poems, sequencing, adjectives, drama.  Fact files, comic strips and speech bubbles.

Maths - Addition and subtraction to 20, numbers to 50 and comparing lengths.

Science - Space.  Waterproof, opaque and transparent materials.

History - People of the past - pirates, space travel.  Florence Nightingale, old and new toys.

Geography - Maps and grid references.
 

Technology - Jointed characters, cutting skills and moving pictures.

ICT - Beebots, around space and maps and various interactive games.

Art - Using different medium, pirate portraits.  Still life drawings - draw what you see.

Music - Pirates songs - pitch.  Rhythm - holding the beat (pulse).

PE - Games and pirate dance and toy dance.

French - Counting and simple vocabulary.  Carnivals, counting and colours.

RE - Creation story.  Leaders.

PHSE - Feelings and bullying.  Keeping safe and people who help us.

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