Year 1 – Curriculum T5&6

Nightingale Class Term 5 and 6 Resources (Year 1)

Term 5: “What songs can we sing to help us through the day?” This unit of work focuses on having fun through improvisation. Term 6: “How does music connect us with the environment?” This unit will explore sound and how to create a story. Following the Charanga Musical School scheme of learning, these units are

Following the GetSet4PE scheme of learning, our physical education (PE) lessons for term 1 and 2 are Fundamentals and Dance. Fundamentals In this unit pupils will explore the fundamental skills of balancing, running changing direction, jumping, hopping and skipping. They will explore these skills in isolation as well as in combination. Pupils will be given

Over the course of term 5 and 6, 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 5: Sikhism – Naam Karan The Naam Karan is a Sikh baby naming ceremony, and many Sikh parents bring their newborns to the Gurdwara (the Sikh temple) as soon as they are able to visit. The Granthi (reader of the scriptures) opens the holy book, the Guru Granth Sahib, at random, and the first

Maze Explorers In term 5, we will focusing on maze explorers. We will learn about: To understand the functionality of the basic direction keys To understand how to create and debug a set of instructions(algorithm) To use the additional direction keys as part of their algorithm. To understand how to change and extend the algorithm

Art: Street view Our topic for this term is ‘Street View’. This topic teaches children about artwork depicting streets and buildings and focuses on the work of the American pop artist, James Rizzi. Children will learn how to create a 3-D mural based on Rizzi’s work which will then be put together to make a

This term our topic is ‘Plant Parts’. This topic teaches children about wild and garden plants by exploring the local environment. They identify and describe the basic parts of plants and observe how they change over time. To find out more, view our Plant Parts Knowledge Organiser Plant Parts Lesson Overview Lesson  Learning focus  1

Following the White Rose Maths scheme, year 1 will cover 6 main blocks of learning over the course of the summer term: multiplication and division; fractions; position and direction; place value within 100; money; and time.  As part of the White Rose Maths scheme, each block is broken down into a series of small learning

Reading Our Class Text and Comprehension In term 5, our reading comprehension will be “Whiffy Wilson: The Wolf who wouldn’t go to school” by Carly Hart. In this fiction text, Wilson can’t count to ten, paint or read a book. He does not want to go to school. Wilson thinks school will be boring. He