Year One: Curriculum Outline 2014-15

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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
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
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This is Me!

Once upon a
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Alien Invasion

Farm to Fork

Under the sea

In Our Dreams /
Enchanted
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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














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



Pantomime IMAX
Skype a Spaceman
Goole / St Leonards
Farm


The Deep
Literacy expert visit to
work with children on
creative writing! Andy
Tooze mixed up fairy
tale poetry.
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Where do the leaves
go in winter?

How do you build a
wolf proof house?

What is my house
built from?
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?

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Seasonal change





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Plants






Animals, including humans






Fairy tale themed
scientific
enquiries/challenges
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What was life like
when my parents
were little?


Homes and buildings
past and present

Significant people
from history






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My local area- map
work, human
geography

Continue map work
Were going on a
character hunt.

The Earth from space,
Introducing the globe

How the seasons and
weather affect people
visit a farm and village


Coastal areas where
are the seas and
oceans?

People who live in hot
and cold places
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2simple All about me
booklet

Puppet Pals APP

Coding- moving
spaceships and aliens




Expand of coding to
create own digital
aquarium


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Using the internet
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?


Data retrieval
Can they review images on a
camera and delete
unwanted images?
Can they use photo editing
software?

Programming
Can they experiment with
variables to control models?
Can they write more
complex programs?

Databases
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?