WHITEHILLS PRIMARY SCHOOL YEAR 1 LONG TERM INTEGRATED CURRICULUM PLANNING (2017 2018) TERM 1 2 3 4 5 6 Topic Title All About Me and My Friends. Starry, Starry Night Let s explore China The Aliens are coming! Victorian Days Animal Magic Literacy Unit: Fiction familiar settings Goldilocks, Polar bear, Polar bear what do you hear? Brown bear, brown bear what do you see? Knock, Knock Write from the beginning Introduction to circle maps and tree maps to plan sentences. Rhymes and poems Nursery Rhymes Drama for Writing Pumpkin Soup Labels and lists body parts and senses, fruit Instructional writing (introduction to flow map to sequence events) Stories about Fantasy Worlds Laura s Star How to catch a star Way back home. Traditional stories from a range of cultures The runaway Chapati, The runaway rice cake, The gingerbread man, The willow pattern story, Nian the dragon story, Chinese Zodiac story. Re-write own story based on runaway chapatti (flow maps) Wanted posters Nian the dragon Stories about Fantasy Worlds The aliens are coming, we re off to look for aliens, Aliens in Underpants, Aliens in underpants save the world (flow maps) Drama for writing - Beegu familiar settings The enormous turnip. The tiny seed (flow map) Drama for writing Enormous Turnip rhyming patterns Rumble in the jungle. familiar settings Dear Zoo Little Red Hen Literacy Unit: Non-Fiction Captions to accompany firework pictures Poetry firework poems, poems about blue Information Texts facts about Guy Information texts facts about China (circle maps) to create information posters. Information about Pandas (circle and tree maps) Chinese menu, list of new year preparations, Instructions recipes for pancakes. Lists identifying good and bad things in our environment Letter writing Write letter to the aliens informing them about our Information texts facts about plants, Queen Victoria (circle and tree maps) Using dictionaries to Information texts information booklets about animals, What am I? fact quiz.
Making fruit salad Recount news writing, sound walk(circle map and tree map) Fawkes, Van Gogh (bubble maps) Recount fireworks (circle map and tree map) captions to accompany animal of the Chinese Zodiac. school and local area. order plants alphabetically. Labels. List and captions Labelling parts of a plant, create seed packets Instructional writing How to plant a seed. Victorian wash day. Poetry plant poems/acrostic Poetry Animal poems and acrostics. Recount trip to Woburn Safari Park (flow map) Alphabetical order Dictionary work putting animals in order.
Science Discuss drugs as medicine (Drug Awareness Topics 1-3) Name body parts and their purpose Investigation using the senses Comparing similarities and differences Keeping healthy OURSELVES Dark den for investigation. Making shadows. Light and light sources identifying natural and man made. Day and night Investigating materials that reflect light (link to the moon reflecting the sun s light) LIGHT AND DARK Observe seasonal changes investigate the trees and plants in the local area. Discuss seasons and weather. Identify months of the year and which season they belong to. SEASONS AND WEATHER Sorting materials for puppets Identifying different types of materials (plastic, glass, wood, rubber, stone, material) and things that are made of them. Sorting materials (floating & sinking) Investigating ways of changing materials MATERIALS Identify and name a variety of common plants, including garden plants, wild plants and trees. Identify trees that are deciduous and evergreen. Identify and describe the basic structure of a flowering plants, including roots, stem/trunk, leaves and flowers. Identify what plants need to grow. GROWING PLANTS Identify and name a animals that are birds, fish, amphibians, reptiles, mammals and insects. Identify and name a animals that are carnivores, herbivores and omnivores. Describe and compare the structure of a animals. ANIMALS Art Observational drawings Self portraits Mixing colours primary to create secondary colours. Texture collage Printing creating own fruit tile. Line drawing Colour mixing creating tones Studying Van Gogh s painting Starry, starry night. Brusho paintings (wax resist) Texture paintings (using thick paint ) Draw/paint the Nian the dragon Make Chinese lanterns Willow pattern/story telling plates Chinese characters/writing using ink and Chinese brushes Blossom trees using blowing technique for trunk. Paint aliens and their planets Create alien sculpture using plasticine Create 3D alien from modelling materials. Alien masks Observational drawings of plants Leaf printing Collage pictures using leaves William Morris study use of nature and symmetry in artwork. Create symmetrical patterns Printing creating leaf and flower repeating Draw what you see! William Morris Explore Patterns Silhouette Henri Rousseau Paint animals Create collage animals.
patterns. Geography Locate China on a map/globe. Introduce the 7 continents and 5 oceans. Compare China/Asia with Britain/Europe (double bubble map) Letter from an alien Where do you live? Walk in the local area identifying amenities and good and bad things within it. Sorting photographs into good/bad. Describe journey to school and draw a map. (Introduction to the use of a key) Identify the 4 countries of the U.K and their capital cities. Identify the seas surrounding the U.K Constructing an alien ship Designing and making puppets (sewing) Seasons and weather changes. Identifying habitats of different animals D & T Design & make a fruit salad (linked to science) Make an instrument (linked to science) Make a friendship bracelet Christmas cards/calendars Dragon puppets = concertina body (folding) Chinese Lanterns Designing and making kites Split pin spinner seasons, growth of a plant. Design and create a sunflower using junk. Create moving animals Design and make an animal mask
History Creating own timeline Identifying differences from baby to adult. Guy Fawkes linked to Bonfire night. Van Gogh art history. Ancient China Emperors, Terracotta army, great wall - changes Looking at Victorian homes comparing them to modern day homes (double bubble maps) Victorian Wash Day. Queen Victoria Victorian Schools comparing to modern day. Victorian School Day. Florence Nightingale ICT PSHE Online safety and exploring purple mash.(4 weeks) Grouping and Sorting using 2DIY (2 weeks) Core 3 Living in the wider world Unit 1 Rules and responsibilities Class rules Taking turns Sharing Core 1 Health and well being Unit 1 Healthy lifestyles Pictograms using 2Count (3 weeks) Lego Builders using 2DIY (3 weeks) Core 2 Relationships Unit 4 Family and friends Maze explorers using 2GO (3 weeks) Core 1 Health and Wellbeing Unit 4 - Emotions Animated Story books using 2CREATE A STORY (5 weeks) Core 1 Health and Wellbeing Unit 5 Keeping safe Coding using 2CODE (6 weeks) Core 2 Relationships Unit 1 Communication Feelings Responses Opinions Spreadsheets using 2Calculate (3 weeks) Technology outside school (2 weeks) Core 2 Relationships Unit 2 - Bullying
RE The Bible Old Testament Books and Stories in Christianity Vicar to visit re- Bible as a special book Festivals of Light Christmas story Music Sounds Interesting The long and Short of it PE/Real PE PE/ Dance Unit 1 Personal Skills Places in Christianity Visit St. Mark s Church Celebrating Chinese New Year Feel the Pulse (Singing songs linked to traditional tales Listen to and compose Chinese music) SDU Heroes/ Heroines Easter Story Taking Off The Family in Judaism What s the Score? Unit 2 Social Skills Unit 3 Cognitive skills Unit 4 Creative skills Unit 5 Applying Physical Skills Lion Dance / Crane Dance (partner work)/ Dragon Dance Drill Deportment Hoop and bean bag games Judaism and shabbat Rain, Rain, Go Away Unit 6 Health and Fitness