YEAR ONE: SUMMER TERM

A SUMMERTIME STORY OF YEAR 1

OUR CORE INTENTION IN ACTION

Take a look at the page below, including our curriculum project posters and mats, and download copies at the base of the page.

During our daily English work, we have been writing information pieces about the moon landing. We also created writing to entertain pieces when we re-told/re-worked our own stories based upon Lost & Found by Oliver Jeffers and Supertato by Sue Hendra & Paul Linnet. Working with multplication, division and place value are our first projects for Mathematics during the term with further work on fractions, position, money and time following this.

We have looked at the work of David Hockney  during our introduction to the colour wheel in painting before exploring colour in our sketchbooks during Art & Design. Summer means composing in Music: a beginning to composition musical sound effects using our percussion instruments linked to feelings. The children look at moveable mechanics during their Design & Technology project. Inspired by their learning about Neil Armstrong landing on the moon during their history work, they design and make a simple lunar rover. In Physical Education, we focus upon the children's motor competence skills in the context of running, jumping and throwing skills linked to athletics. We then move into the sport, specific unit of football with a focus upon attacking and defending activities and shooting.

Explorers is the first part of our Travels and Tales project which runs in two sections across KS1. (First Flight is part two which follows next summer.) This History focus allows the children to explore the work and achievements of figures such as Christopher Columbus and Neil Armstrong as the children develop an awareness of important historical events and figures. They particularly enjoy the space themed aspects and Armstrong's achievements, along with his ground-breaking colleagues, really capture the children's imagination. 

The Geography project asks: What do we know about our town? Continuing our focus upon understanding our locality and what is looks like and means, this project allows us to consider what makes our town look the way it does. Learning new vocabulary and terms linked to the natural and man-made features. We think about what people of Hindu and Muslim faith believe about how God made the world and ask what are the children's favourite things that many people believe God created as some of our Religious Education big questions this term. 

Our Science work sees us introduce the human body and by naming, describing and comparing basic parts and then move onto animals to consider whether they are herbivores, carnivores or omnivores. Learning what data looks like on a screen, how it is represented and then exploring our own data is our Computing focus for this term as we introduce this area of the subject to the children. We also take a close look at mouse skills as a starting point to their control work this year. The children's E-Safety work centres upon what is personal information on the internet and how others can see if we work online in certain places. My Happy Mind/PSHE & Relationships looks at responsibilities and what we can/must do to make a contribution and then a closer look at people who help us in our daily lives amongst several themes during the term.