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Curriculum Overview

Year 1 Curriculum Overview 2025-2026

 

 

Autumn 1

8 weeks

 

Autumn 2

7 weeks

 

Spring 1

6 weeks

 

Spring 2

5 weeks

 

Summer 1

6 weeks

 

Summer 2

7 weeks

 

English

*Captions, labels

and Sentence Structure

 

Contemporary Fiction

Hairy Maclary

 

*Retell & Description

Contemporary Fiction

Lost and Found

Billy and the Beast

The Lion Inside

*Narrative Story

*Diary

Here Comes Frankie

Contemporary Fiction



 

*Letter writing

*Questions and Facts

Classic Fiction

The Jolly Postman

*Narrative - new version

Traditional Tales and Alternative versions

 

Little Red Riding Hood

 

*Classic Fiction/significant author

 

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

*Poetry: Rhyming couplets

Big Green Crocodile

 

*Geographical Report – The UK

*Note Taking (disciplinary writing)

Non Chronological Report

*Indirect Recount – people’s history/bio (disciplinary writing)

Significant People 

 

*Narrative- story

Invent a character

Contemporary Fiction

The Adventures of the Egg Box Dragon

 


 

Maths

Number: counting within 100

Number: comparison, wholes and parts

Number: place value (0 to 5)

Geometry: shape

Geometry: shape

Number: place value (0 to 10)

Number: addition

Number: addition

Number: addition and subtraction facts within 10

Number: place value (0 to 20)

Number: multiplication (unitising and coin recognition)

Number: multiplication (unitising and coin recognition)

Geometry: position and direction

Measurement: time

Science 

Animals

 

Seasonal changes -Autumn

 

Scientist focus:

Anders Celsius

Everyday Materials



 

Scientist focus:

Charles Mackintosh

Animals, including humans

My Body (senses)

Seasonal changes -Winter

Scientist focus:

Steve Backshall

STEM Project

 

Fairy Tale Problems

 

Scientist focus:

Linda Brown Buck

Seasonal Changes

Plants



 

Scientist focus:

Beatrix Potter

History

 

How have familiar things changed over time?

 

A similarity and difference enquiry


 

Why are these two queens important?

 

Queen Elizabeth 1

Queen Elizabeth II

 

Significance enquiry


 

Why are the journeys of Mansa Musa and Ibn Battuta remembered?

 

Significance enquiry

Geography

Mapping our Area- Local Area study

 

The UK – countries, capitals, seas, seasons, weather, settlements

 

Comparative Study- London & Nairobi

 

Computing 

Computing and Networks

Technology around us

Creating Media

Digital Painting


 

Programming A

Moving a Robot

Data and Information

Grouping Data

Creating Media

Digital Writing

Programming B

Programming animations

Design and Technology

Mechanisms 

Sliders and Levers 

 

Project: Moving Picture 

Mechanisms 

Sliders and Levers 

 

Project: Moving Celebration card 

Food

Preparing fruit and vegetables 

Project: Fruit salad

Food

Preparing fruit and vegetables 

Project: Crudité platter and hummus

Structures

Freestanding structures 

Project: structure (prop) from story book 

Structures

Freestanding structures 

Project: Bridges

Music 

My Musical Heartbeat 

How can we make friends when we sing together? 

Dance, Sing and Play

How does music tell stories about the past?

Exploring Sounds

How Does Music Make the world a Better Place?

Learning to Listen

How does Music Help us to Understand our Neighbours?

Having fun with Improvisation

What Songs Can We Sing to Get Us Through the Day?

Let’s Perform Together

Learning to play the Glockenspiel and read musical notation

Art 

Drawing

Mark making with range of materials - Joan Miro

Make own tools

Create and use different surface

Make controlled drawing

Use imagination to draw

Patrick Caulfield

Painting

Use of thick/thin paint

Brush strokes - Frank Auerbach

Respond to stories using colour

Responding to artists work - Jasper Johns


 

Printmaking

Direct printmaking

Negative stencils

layered printed image

Clay slab relief

Collagraph block

Henri Matisse

Collage

Tear, overlap, stick

Identify hot/cold colours

Contrasting materials

 Patrick Heron

Andy Goldsworthy

 Richard Long

Textiles

Investigate weaving

Embellish fabric 

Fabric resist technique

Wrapping and knotting technique

Terri Friedman

Julia Bland

3-D/Sculpture

Pattern and line

Working with clay

Use a story as starting point

Clay balls and coils

Plaster cast mould

Andy Goldsworthy

Richard Long

PSHE/ safeguarding 

Physical & Mental Health 

Keeping Safe 

  

Relationships: Friends & Family 

   

Respectful & safe Relationships 

     

Living in the Wider World: Financial Literacy 

         

Health & Wellbeing: Ourselves- Growing & Changing 

       
  

RE

        

What does it mean to belong to a faith community?

         

Who is a Christian and what do they believe? (part 1)


 
         

Who is a Muslim and what do they believe? (part 1)

         

How and why do we celebrate special and sacred times? (Part 1)

         

What makes some places sacred? 

         

What makes some places sacred? 

    
  

PE

        

Introduction to Invasion Games

         

Introduction to Invasion Games

         

Gymnastics

         

Athletics

         

Cricket

         

Tennis

    
  

Educational Visits

        

Local Park 

Geography

         

Local Christian Church

RE

         

Using Transport (bus, tube, train)

PSHE

         

Young V&A

Hero Arm workshop

STEM

         

British Library

English

         

National Portrait Gallery

Art/History

    

 

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