Year 1 Curriculum

Number and place values

• Numbers to 10
• Numbers to 20
• Numbers to 40
• Numbers to 100

Calculations

• Addition and subtraction within 20
• Multiplication and division

Fractions

• Making halves and quarters
• Sharing and grouping

Measurement

• Length and height
• Time
• Money
• Volume and capacity
• Mass

Geometry

• Positions
• Shapes and patterns
• Space

Writing

• Fiction
  • Write a full sentence and check it independently.
  • Discuss a variety of stories in depth and act them out
  • Re-write/imitate, a well-known story.
  • Extend sentences to include WOW words.
  • Compare, contrast and predict story themes.
  • Give opinions on stories.
  • Change/innovate a well-known story.
  • Retell a story using different props and story mapping ideas.
  • Write/imagine a simple story.
• Non-fiction
  • Write a variety of non-fiction texts – a recount, a list, an invitation, a card
  • Recite, perform and re-write poems.
  • Read, follow and write simple instructions.
  • Use a dictionary.
  • Ask and write questions.
  • Talk about Information books and help to create a class book.
  • Compare different poems and rhymes.
  • Extend a written recount, a simple poem and a letter.

Phonics

• Secure knowledge of all single sounds
• Read and write CVC words independently
• Introduce double sounds: ll, ss, zz ff, qu, ck and th, sh and ch for use in reading and writing
• Blending-squeezing sounds to read
• Segmenting-stretching sounds to spell
• Introduce the next set of digraphs-double sounds for reading and writing
• Secure knowledge of digraphs learnt and use in CVCC and CCVC words (C-consonant, V-vowel)

Reading

• Read on sight ‘Tricky Words’ according to the UK National Curriculum – (Phase 2 and 3)
• Read on sight ‘High Frequency Words’ according to the UK National Curriculum – (Phase 2 and 3)

Unit 1 – Ourselves

1. All about me.
2. Similarities and Differences.
3. Compare sizes – height, hands, head.
4. The five senses – Sight, Smell, Taste, Touch and Hearing.

Unit 2 – Living and Growing

1. Alive or never been alive.
2. Places to live.
3. Offspring.
4. Life cycle of a frog.
5. Growing up.
6. Food groups.
7. Water Diary.
8. Tooth Decay.

Unit 3 – Plants

1. Alive or never Alive.
2. Different Plants.
3. Parts of a plant.
4. Seeds.
5. Parts of a plant we eat.
6. Plant detectives.

Unit 4 – Material Properties

1. What are Materials?
2. Textures.
3. Opposites.
4. Metal, Plastic, Fabric, Wood, Glass.
5. Properties of Fabric.
6. Uses of Fabric.

Unit 5 – Forces

1. How do things move?
2. Actions.
3. Push or Pull.
4. Making things move.
5. Changing Direction.
6. Bubbles/Kites.

Unit 6 – Sound

1. Sound all around.
2. Music.
3. Sound Board.
4. What can you hear?
5. Looking after your ears.
6. Helping us to hear.

• Revision of colours and numbers
• Pets and farm animals
• Family
• Christmas

• Homes – old and new
• Toys – old and new
• The history of flight

• Water
• Around our school and maps
• Around the world

Teddy bears

• Drawing by combing line and then shape.
• Painting and mixing colours to make new colours.
• Cutting, sticking and sculpting with clay.

Unit 1: Starting Text

• Using Microsoft Word
• Selecting and inserting images
• Cut and paste
• Setting font, size and colour
• Writing a story and a letter

Unit 2: Starting Images

• Use simple shapes and lines to create pictures or patterns
• Edit pictures using visual effects
• Add details to an existing picture, using straight lines or geometric shapes
• Copy or delete a character or object
• Use ‘save as’ to store edited pictures

Unit 3: Coding

• Sequence
• Directing characters to move over a course
• Repetition

Coming soon…

• Being special
• Keeping myself safe
• My class, my school