Year One: Curriculum Outline 2014-15

English

Narrative

Write stories set in places pupils have been

Write stories with imaginary settings

Write stories and plays that use the

language of fairy tales and traditional tales

Write stories that mimic significant authors

Write narrative diaries

Topic
theme

This is Me!

Once upon a
time

Non-fiction

Write labels

Write lists

Write captions

Write instructions

Write recounts

Write glossaries

Present information

Write non-chronological reports

Poetry

Write poems that use pattern, rhyme and

description
Write nonsense and humorous poems and
limericks

Farm to Fork

Under the sea

In Our Dreams /
Enchanted

Aliens Love
Underpants
The Aliens are Coming
Two Little Aliens

Olivers Vegetables
Farmer Duck
Little Red Hen

Billys Bucket
Sharing a Shell
Snail and the Whale

Imagine, imagine
You Choose
The Great Fairy-tale
Disaster
Mixed up fairy tales
Include: traditional
tale versions

IMAX
Skype a Spaceman

Goole / St Leonards
Farm

The Deep

Has man ever visited

the moon? Significant
figures in history.

How does our dinner

get from the farm to
our plate?

Why is a shark not like

a cat?

Key text

Alien Invasion

All About Me!

What I like About Me
My Family
I can be Anything!

Traditional tales
3 Little Pigs
Jack and the Beanstalk
Goldilocks
Little Red Riding Hood

Visit
Key
Question
Science
seasonal changes

Walk around local

area visit local park
(school field) for a
family picnic

Pantomime

Where do the leaves

go in winter?

How do you build a

wolf proof house?

Seasonal change

What is my house
built from?
Everyday Materials

Literacy expert visit to

work with children on
creative writing! Andy
Tooze mixed up fairy
tale poetry.

Plants

Animals, including humans

History

What was life like

when my parents
were little?

Homes and buildings

past and present

Significant people
from history

Geography

My local area- map

work, human
geography

Continue map work

Were going on a
character hunt.

The Earth from space,

Introducing the globe

Computing

2simple All about me

booklet

Puppet Pals APP

Coding- moving
spaceships and aliens

Using the internet

Computing

Can they find and save

relevant information and
images on the internet?
Do they begin to use note
making skills to decide
what text to copy?

Presentation
Can they create a
presentation that moves
from slide to slide and is
aimed at a specific
audience?
Can they combine text,
images and sounds and
show awareness of
audience?

How the seasons and

weather affect people
visit a farm and village

Coastal areas where

are the seas and
oceans?

Expand of coding to
create own digital
aquarium

Data retrieval

Programming

Databases

Can they review images on a

camera and delete
unwanted images?
Can they use photo editing
software?

Can they experiment with

variables to control models?
Can they write more
complex programs?

Can they input data into a

prepared database?
Can they sort and search a
database to answer simple
questions?
Can they use a branching
database?

Fairy tale themed

scientific
enquiries/challenges

People who live in hot

and cold places