Year One: Curriculum Outline 2014-15

English

Narrative unit 1
Narrative unit 2
Non-fiction: Labels
and captions
Classic tales (2)
Poetry (1)
Well-loved stories (2)

Traditional tales
Descriptions
Well-loved stories (2)
Non-fiction (2)
Contemporary picture
books (1)

Narrative unit 3
Non-fiction:
instructions
Senses poems

Rhyming poems
Fairy tales
Non-fiction: recounts
Information texts

Narrative unit 4
Non-fiction: reports
Recounts of museum
visit

Well-loved stories (2)

Contemporary picture
books (1)
Classic tales (1)
Non-fiction (2)

Classic tales (2)

Poetry (1)
Non-fiction (2)

Contemporary picture
books (1)
Classic tales (2)
Poetry (1)
Recount (1)

Narrative unit 5
Information texts
Shape poems
Well-loved stories (2)
Contemporary picture
books (1)
Poetry anthology (1)

Topic
theme

Once upon a
time

What is beyond
Earth?

Farm to Fork

Under the sea

In Our Dreams /
Enchanted

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

Two Little Aliens

Laika the Astronaut
Usbourne big books of
stars and planets

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
Inc: traditional tales

Pantomime

Space Centre

Hesketh Farm

The Deep

Key text

This is Me!

(Jack and the Beanstalk)

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.

Visit

Walk around local

area visit local park

Key
Question

Has man ever visited

the moon? Significant
figures in history.

How does our dinner

get from the farm to
our plate?

Science
seasonal changes

Solar System

Why is a shark not like

a cat?

Plants

Animals, including humans

History

What was life like

when my parents
were little?

Homes and buildings

past and present

Significant people from

history

Famous Explorers
Discovery of foods

Geography

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?

Computing

2simple All about me

booklet

Puppet Pals APP

Animation
Plastercine Aliens

Creating a
Presentation

Expand of coding to
create own digital
aquarium

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?

Data retrieval

Programming

Databases

Can they review images on a

camera and delete unwanted
images?
Can they use photo editing
software?
Retrieving facts
Book Creator throughout
topic to record learning

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