Welcome to Year One

In Year 1 you will find Mrs Wiley, Miss Cookson, Mrs Kibblewhite and Ms Preece

In Year 1 we engage the children with exciting Topics like fantasy creatures and the Great Fire of London. We try wherever possible to give the children hands on experiences and build memories through workshops/ visitors and school trips and make the learning fun and exciting. We enjoy getting involved in maths and science investigations and we have lots of discussions as a class throughout all our learning, building up important communication skills. Learning circus skills; growing our own candy canes and sending the instructions to Santa and exploring bubbles to create some beautiful art work and descriptive writing are some of the things we get up to at school.

To support the learning of Phonics we use Letters and Sounds, the LCP scheme, Jolly Phonics and Bug Club Phonics.

To support the learning of reading we use Letters and Sounds and Bug Club.

Below are our Year 1 topics and a taster of what we will be learning each term.

Also

Please ensure you look in your child's reading folder every Friday for their new weekly spellings

We also ask that you bring in your child's PE kit on a Monday to be left in school until Friday

All children are expected to read at home daily and make a record in their reading challenges. Please send the reading challenge into school every day .

Long Term Plan - Year 1

	Term 1	Term 2	Term 3	Term 4	Term 5	Term 6
Topic	Marvellous Me	Light	Animal Kingdom	Pirates	Rainforests	Castles and knights
Literacy	Repeating Story – We’re all going on a bear hunt. The Wall in the Middle of the Book.	Travel Tale – Bubbles Instructions - Grow a candy cane	The Egg Non-fiction - fact File on an animal. Poem – The owl and the Pussy Cat	The Antlered Ship. Pirate Story – Class Three all at sea/Pirate Post.	The Kapok Tree Letter Writing / Persuasive text about why you can’t cut down the rainforest.	The Princess and the White Bear King. Non-fiction text – How to Attack a Castle.
Maths	Number: Place Value. Addition and subtraction	Number: Addition and Subtraction. Geometry: Shape.	Number: Addition and subtraction.	Number: Place value. Measurement: Length & height / weight and volume.	Number: Multiplication and division. Fractions. Geometry: Position and direction.	Number: Place value. Measurement: money and time.
Science	Human body – identify, name, draw and label the basic parts of the body, identify and name senses.	Seasons – position of the sun, long days/ short days.	Animals – identify and name a variety of common animals, describe and compare the structure of a variety of animals.	Materials - float &sink, Identify and name a variety of materials, describe simple physical properties of everyday materials.	Plants – identify and name a variety of common wild and garden plants and identify and describe the structure of plants and trees.	Seasons – observe changes across the four seasons.
Computing	NOS - Self-Image and Identity Google Earth / maps of the local area. Phonics and Maths games.	NOS - Online Relationships. Phonics and Maths games.	NOS – Online Reputation Create a fact file/e-book about an animal. Phonics and Maths games.	NOS – Online Bullying Programming and algorithms. – Bee Bots. Make pirate posters. Phonics and Maths games.	NOS – Fake profiles Google Earth – looking at other countries.	NOS – selfie safe. Retrieve information from the internet. Phonics and Maths games.
RE	Creation	Christmas	Jesus as a Friend	Easter	Shabbat	Chanukah
Art	Self Portraits Pablo Picasso	Firework pictures (History link) Light pictures – Van Gogh – A Starry Night	Life drawings – animals (topic) To design a fantasy creature.	Portraits of pirates Paintings of the sea and under the sea Design and make a pirate flag Pirate ships	Life drawings – plants (science link)	Drawing/painting a castle.
DT	Making a moving body model (science link) Designing and making houses	Making Christmas cards	Understand where food comes from. Design, make and evaluate a fantasy creature.	Textiles (Science link) – making a raft/boot.		Recycle Models – To design and make a shield. Cooking.
Geography	Local walk – following directions. Route planning – the safest and quickest routes, are they always the same? Using google earth to locate/explore.	Human and Physical Geography – location of hot and cold areas of the world in relation to the Equator and the North and South Poles.	Place Knowledge – understanding similarities and differences of human and physical geography of the UK	Locational Knowledge – name and locate the world’s 5 oceans and 7 continents. Invent pirate treasure maps using symbols and keys Read a map to find clues for a treasure hunt around school	Locational Knowledge – name, locate and identify characteristics of the 4 countries and capital cities of the UK.	Human and Physical geography – identify seasonal and daily weather patterns in the UK. Castle geographical locations and floor plans – aerial viewpoint perspective Castles – where would you build your castle?
History	Local history – Banbury Cross, the expansion of Banbury. The market. Personal history – looking at how we have grown. Past and present homes. Who is there a statue of in Banbury Town Centre and why is it important?	Bonfire Night – Guy Fawkes Christmas Story – RE link	Significant person: Mary Anning. Research facts about her and her work with fossils. Create a factfile.	Researching/learning about famous pirates. Ways of life of people in the past. What did it mean to be a pirate? What was life like for a pirate? Should we call Grace O’Mally a pirate? https://www.history.org.uk/primary/resource/9711		Types of castle and a timeline. What job would you like to have in a medieval castle?
Music	Hey You	Xmas play	In the Groove	Rhythm in the way we walk	Round and round	Reflect, rewind and replay
PE	Gymnastics (Indoor) Object Control – catching (Outdoor)	Dance (Indoor) Object control – throwing (outdoor)	Gymnastics (Indoor) Net/ wall games (outdoor)	Dance (Indoor) Net/ wall games (outdoor)	Gymnastics (Indoor) Striking and Fielding (outdoor)	Dance (Indoor) Athletics (outdoor)
PSHE	SCARF – Me and my relationships.	SCIB SCARF – Valuing difference	SCIB SCARF – Keeping myself safe	SCARF – Rights and responsibilities	SCIB SCARF – Being my best	SCARF – Growing and changing.
Possible School Trips/ Visits	Museum workshop – Home past and present Science Centre Trip.		Zoo Trip – Cotswold Wildlife Park.	Fire Fighters		Warwick Castle/ Blenheim Palace.

If you require more information about the curriculum that your child is following at school, please email the school office: office.2055@orchard-fields.oxon.sch.uk