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  • Autumn Curriculum

    What Children in Year 1 are Learning this Term

    Curriculum Letters

    Curriculum letters explain in detail what the children in Y1 are learning this term.

    English

    Mathematics

    Science

    RE

    Traditional Tales

    Little Red Hen by Jonathan Allen

    Goldilocks and the Three Bear by James Marshall

    • Listening to and retelling traditional tales
    • Recognising and using story language: Once upon a time, happily ever after
    • Using capital letters, full stops and finger spaces
    • Using capital letters for names, days of the week and the personal pronoun (I)
    • Knowing the definition of a verb

    White Rose – Number: Place Value (within 10)

    • Sorting and counting objects
    • Recognising numbers as words
    • Counting on from any number and counting backwards within 10
    • Identifying 1 more and 1 less
    • Recognising less than, greater than and equal to
    • Comparing and ordering groups of objects and numbers
    • Using the number line

    Seasonal Changes – autumn and winter

    • Understanding the changes across the four seasons: spring, summer, autumn, winter
    • Knowing the signs of autumn and winter through observing the changes in weather and nature
    • Collecting data about trees looking closely at their leaves
    • Understanding how and why day length varies throughout the year

    Jigsaw – Christianity

    What do Christians believe about God?

    Theme: Creation, God the Father as an introduction to the Trinity

    • Respecting the work of a creator
    • Retelling the Christian Creation story
    • Understanding how Christians think God wants them to behave towards the world and towards others
    • Expressing how it feels to take care of the world, something or somebody

    History

    Year 1 Autumn Term 1

    Curriculum Overview

    Logo for St Mary's Church of England Primary School

     

    Learn. Grow. Achieve. Flourish

    PSHE

    Who is part of my family tree?

    • Understanding how they have changed over time
    • Ordering events in their own life on a timeline
    • Understanding their own family history
    • Sharing where their family is from and investigating family history

    Jigsaw – Being Me in My World

    • Understanding the rights and responsibilities as a member of class
    • Understanding how to make the class a safe place for everybody to learn
    • Recognising how it feels to be proud of an achievement
    • Understanding choices can have consequences

    Music

    Art

    PE

    Computing

    Kapow – Keeping the Pulse

    Theme: My Favourite Things

    • Clapping, swaying and singing a rhythm in time to the pulse
    • Copying rhythms based on word patterns using an instrument
    • Keeping the pulse while playing a rhythm on an instrument

    Kapow – Drawing: Exploring line and shape

    • Choosing lines and shapes inspired by Brianna McCarthy’s artwork
    • Identifying basic shapes in everyday objects and artwork
    • Discussing what they like or dislike in a piece of artwork
    • Using different pressures to make colour lighter or darker

    Get Set 4 PE – Team Building

    • Communicating and following simple instructions
    • Following path and leading others
    • Listening to others’ ideas and suggesting ideas to solve tasks
    • Working with a partner and a small group
    • Understanding the rules of the game

     

    Kapow – Improving Mouse Skills

    • Logging in and navigating around the computer
    • Dragging, dropping, clicking and controlling a cursor using a mouse
    • Using software tools to create art on the computer

    Knowledge Organisers at St Mary’s

    Knowledge organisers provide key information that we expect all children to be able to discuss and understand by the end of a topic. When learning a new topic, having a knowledge organiser helps children to remember the:

    • key facts
    • key vocabulary

    Knowledge organisers informs parents about what their children will be learning over the half term. In school, we will be using knowledge organisers during maths, English and science.

    Parents can help children remember this key information by playing ‘challenge games’ using the knowledge organisers.