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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

 

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

 

 

 

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

 

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?

 

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

 

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