Year 1 – Curriculum T3&4

Nightingale Class Term 3 and 4 Resources (Year 1)

Term 3: Football Football is a lively, rhythmic chant about football. This unit sees children echo singing, composing word patterns, improvising with mi-re-do, and playing a percussion ostinato. Activities will support pupils to understand the difference between pitched patterns and rhythm patterns, higher and lower. Term 3: ‘Dawn’ from the Sea interludes In this unit,

Following the GetSet4PE scheme of learning, our Physical Education (PE) lessons for term 3 will focus on multiskills and gymnastics. Our PE lessons for term 4 will focus on net and wall, and striking and fielding. Our PE lessons will be on Tuesdays and Thursdays; children can wear their PE into school on both of

Over the course of term 3 and 4, we will continue to follow our Jigsaw PSHE scheme of learning. Jigsaw, the mindful approach to PSHE is a progressive and spiral scheme of learning. In planning the lessons, Jigsaw PSHE ensures that learning from previous years is revisited and extended, adding new concepts, knowledge and skills,

Term 3: Islam – Milad un Nabi Milad un Nabi actually occurs in the month of September and is known as the Prophet’s Birthday. The festival of Milad un Nabi commemorates the birth of the Prophet Muhammad. During the festival, Muslims hear stories of Muhammad’s life, visit the mosque, sing songs, share a meal with

Pictograms In term 3, we will be focusing upon pictograms. We will learn about: To understand that data can be represented in picture format. We will contribute to the collection of class data Wil will contribute to a class pictogram. Having gathered the data, we will discuss what the pictogram shows us. We will then

Art: Rain and Sunrays Our art topic for this term is ‘Rain and Sunrays’. Throughout this topic, we will learn about line and shape. We will also learn about textures of materials and how to create textures in collagraph printing, including how to develop a motif to make single and repeated prints. To find out

This term out topic is ‘Seasonal Changes’. Throughout the topic, we will learn about the seasons, seasonal changes and typical seasonal weather and events. We will learn about measuring the weather and the role of a meteorologist. We will also learn about the science of day and night and recognise that the seasons have varying

Following the White Rose Maths scheme, year 1 will cover 5 main blocks of learning over the course of the spring term: place value within 20; addition and subtraction; place value within 50; length and height; and mass and volume. As part of the White Rose Maths scheme, each block is broken down into a

Reading Our Class Text and Comprehension In term 3, our reading comprehension lessons will be based upon our class text, “Topsy and Tim” by Jean Adamson. In this fiction text, we will join Topsy and Tim and they go on a trip to London. They stay in a house that belongs to Mummy’s best friend