Curriculum Overview
Year 1 Curriculum Overview 2025-2026
| Autumn 1 8 weeks
| Autumn 2 7 weeks
| Spring 1 6 weeks
| Spring 2 5 weeks
| Summer 1 6 weeks
| Summer 2 7 weeks
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English | *Captions, labels and Sentence Structure
Contemporary Fiction Hairy Maclary
*Retell & Description Contemporary Fiction Lost and Found Billy and the Beast The Lion Inside | *Narrative Story *Diary Here Comes Frankie Contemporary Fiction
*Letter writing *Questions and Facts Classic Fiction The Jolly Postman
| *Narrative - new version Traditional Tales and Alternative versions
Little Red Riding Hood
| *Classic Fiction/significant author
A Midsummer Night’s Dream | *Poetry: Rhyming couplets Big Green Crocodile
*Geographical Report – The UK *Note Taking (disciplinary writing) Non Chronological Report | *Indirect Recount – people’s history/bio (disciplinary writing) Significant People
*Narrative- story Invent a character Contemporary Fiction The Adventures of the Egg Box Dragon
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Maths | Number: counting within 100
| Number: comparison, wholes and parts Number: place value (0 to 5) Geometry: shape | Geometry: shape Number: place value (0 to 10) Number: addition | Number: addition Number: addition and subtraction facts within 10 | Number: place value (0 to 20) Number: multiplication (unitising and coin recognition) | Number: multiplication (unitising and coin recognition) Geometry: position and direction Measurement: time |
Science | Animals
Seasonal changes -Autumn
Scientist focus: Anders Celsius | Everyday Materials
Scientist focus: Charles Mackintosh | Animals, including humans My Body (senses) Seasonal changes -Winter Scientist focus: Steve Backshall
| STEM Project
Fairy Tale Problems
Scientist focus: Linda Brown Buck
| Seasonal Changes | Plants
Scientist focus:Beatrix Potter |
History |
| How have familiar things changed over time?
A similarity and difference enquiry |
| Why are these two queens important?
Queen Elizabeth 1 Queen Elizabeth II
Significance enquiry |
| Why are the journeys of Mansa Musa and Ibn Battuta remembered?
Significance enquiry |
Geography | Mapping our Area- Local Area study |
| The UK – countries, capitals, seas, seasons, weather, settlements |
| Comparative Study- London & Nairobi |
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Computing | Computing and Networks Technology around us | Creating Media Digital Painting
| Programming A Moving a Robot
| Data and Information Grouping Data | Creating Media Digital Writing | Programming B Programming animations |
Design and Technology | Mechanisms Sliders and Levers
Project: Moving Picture | Mechanisms Sliders and Levers
Project: Moving Celebration card | Food Preparing fruit and vegetables Project: Fruit salad | Food Preparing fruit and vegetables Project: Crudité platter and hummus | Structures Freestanding structures Project: structure (prop) from story book | Structures Freestanding structures Project: Bridges |
Music | My Musical Heartbeat How can we make friends when we sing together?
| Dance, Sing and Play How does music tell stories about the past?
| Exploring Sounds How Does Music Make the world a Better Place? | Learning to Listen How does Music Help us to Understand our Neighbours? | Having fun with Improvisation What Songs Can We Sing to Get Us Through the Day? | Let’s Perform Together Learning to play the Glockenspiel and read musical notation |
Art | Drawing Mark making with range of materials - Joan Miro Make own tools Create and use different surface Make controlled drawing Use imagination to draw Patrick Caulfield | Painting Use of thick/thin paint Brush strokes - Frank Auerbach Respond to stories using colour Responding to artists work - Jasper Johns
| Printmaking Direct printmaking Negative stencils layered printed image Clay slab relief Collagraph block Henri Matisse
| Collage Tear, overlap, stick Identify hot/cold colours Contrasting materials Patrick Heron Andy Goldsworthy Richard Long | Textiles Investigate weaving Embellish fabric Fabric resist technique Wrapping and knotting technique Terri Friedman Julia Bland | 3-D/Sculpture Pattern and line Working with clay Use a story as starting point Clay balls and coils Plaster cast mould Andy Goldsworthy Richard Long |
PSHE/ safeguarding
| Physical & Mental Health | Keeping Safe | Relationships: Friends & Family | Respectful & safe Relationships | Living in the Wider World: Financial Literacy | Health & Wellbeing: Ourselves- Growing & Changing |
RE | What does it mean to belong to a faith community? | Who is a Christian and what do they believe? (part 1)
| Who is a Muslim and what do they believe? (part 1) | How and why do we celebrate special and sacred times? (Part 1) | What makes some places sacred?
| What makes some places sacred?
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PE | Introduction to Invasion Games
| Introduction to Invasion Games | Gymnastics | Athletics | Cricket | Tennis |
Educational Visits | Local Park Geography | Local Christian Church RE | Using Transport (bus, tube, train) PSHE | Young V&A Hero Arm workshop STEM | British Library English | National Portrait Gallery Art/History |