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Our Curriculum

Year 1 Curriculum overview 2011-12

 
Autumn 1
 
Dinosaurs (transition)
 
The circus
 
Autumn 2
 
Guy Fawkes
 
Arctic Adventures
Spring 1
 
Toys
 
Houses & Homes
Wow/Celebration
Circus skills workshop
 
Clown Day
 
 
 
Arctic storyteller
 
Mad Toy Professor
 
 
Brickworks Trip
Celebration event for parents
Clown
*face painting etc
*circus skill performance
*Sharing of topic books
*Guy Fawkes – show re-enactment of Gunpowder plot, *music/dance
*sharing of topic books
 
Toys
*Parent interview about childhood toys and changes in how we live
*Sharing of topic books
Science
 
Forces and motion
Light and Sound
Materials
SEAL
New beginnings
Getting on and falling out
Going for goals
RE
 
new suggestions given to Holly so concept types A and B are covered, as well as second religion
Harvest
 
Concept: Thanking
 
Divali
 
Concept: Light
Holi
 
Concept: Remembering
PE
Games- circus performance
 
Gym
Dance- toys
Foundation 1
History- Dinosaurs
History- Guy Fawkes
 
History- Houses and homes then and now
History – Changes in lives
Foundation 2
DT- Circus
Working Trapeze
 
Geography- Arctic location, maps
DT- toy making (mechanisms)
Art
Art- collage
 
Art- paper scultpture
Art- observational drawing
Music
 
Circus music
Singing- xmas
Old rhymes and playground games
ICT
Taking photos
 
Finding things out
Instructions-Bee bots

 
Spring 2
 
Space
 
 
Summer 1
 
Magical Me
Summer 2
 
Rainforests
 
 
Chocolate (transition)
Wow/Celebration
Space Dome
 
 
Intech trip
Magician
 
 
Potion workshop day
Marwell Trip
 
 
Drumming workshop TBC
Celebration event for parents
Space
 
*Sharing of topic books
*Magical Me (include in Potion Workshop day)
*Wizard dress up
*Sharing of topic books
Chocolate
*chocolate making
*Sharing of topic books
Science
 
Light and Sound /materials consolidation
Scientific Enquiry – senses
Life Forces
Living Things
SEAL
Good to be me
Say no to bullying
Relationships
Changes
RE
 
new suggestions given to Holly so concept types A and B are covered, as well as second religion
Easter
 
Concept: sadness to happiness
Stories Jesus told
 
Concept: change
Special Places
 
Concept: Specialness
PE
Dance- moon landings, aliens…
Gym
Games/Athletics
Foundation 1
History- Moon landing (event)
 
DT- Healthy Food
Geography- comparing localities
Foundation 2
Geography- maps of galaxies etc
Geography- local area
 
DT- chocolate
Art
Art- painting/ pastel planets
Art- printing
Art- Clay
Music
 
space music. star trek etc
fantasy and wonder
rainforest songs
ICT
Podium
Word processing
All skills