Teacher – Tracy Appiah

HLTA       – Lorraine Phillips

 

Year 1: Term 2

Our World of Toys

 

Science: 1st half: Materials

  • Distinguish between an object and the material from which it’s made.
  • Identify and name a variety of everyday materials, including wood, plastic, glass, metal, water and rock.
  • Describe the simple physical properties of everyday materials.
  • Compare and group together a variety of everyday materials on the basis of their simple physical properties.

CROSS CURRICULAR LINKS:

  • Count everyday materials in groups of 2, 5 or 10
  • Use comparative language to describe the simple physical properties of every day materials.
  • Use names of common 2d shapes when describing everyday objects
  • Write a sense poem using describing materials

Instructional writing about how to make an umbrella

ICT Opportunities : Digital Media

  • Take a digital photo of their own choice of subject
  • Describe the content of selected photos

Science: 2nd half: Plants

  • Identify and name a variety of common, wild and garden plants, including deciduous and evergreen trees.
  • Identify and describe the basic structure of a variety of common flowering plants, including trees.

CROSS CURRICULAR LINKS:

  • Use a ruler to measure plants in cm.
  • Use comparative language to describe differences in plants.
  • Make a fact file on trees
  • Write a leaflet on how to look after plants

ICT Opportunities : Handling Digital Data

  • Recognise different ways that everyday information is organised and displayed
  • Ask and answer simple questions using data

Create simple tables, graphs and charts using software

History: QUEEN VICTORIA AND VICTORIAN TOYS

  • To learn about Queen Victoria.
  • To learn about Victorian family life.
  • Use pictures to compare Victorian toys with modern day toys.
  • Visit a toy museum and discuss what other people’s toys were like.
  • Decide whether an object is old or new.
  • Describe the characteristics of old and new objects.
  • Identify similarities and differences between toys in different periods.
  • Speak about what we have found out

CROSS CURRICULAR LINKS:

  • Read and write how old Victoria was at various key moments of her life.
  • Count and add Victorian toys
  • Solve simple word problems about Victorian objects / toys
  • Guess how many years old a toy is.
  • Use comparative language to compare toys and Victorian artefacts
  • Sequence events in Queen Victoria’s life using language such as ‘before, after and next.’
  • -create a simple play script using the puppet pupils have created.
  • -write a description of their puppet.
  • -write a simple fact file about Queen Victoria.
  • -write a description of a present day toy and an older toy.
  • -write a recount about a trip to the Toy Museum.

ICT Opportunities : Digital Research

  • Explore a website to find interesting information

Compare and contrast digital resources to traditional books

Geography: THE UNITED KINGDOM

  • Name, locate and identify characteristics of the four countries of the United Kingdom.
  • Name, locate and identify characteristics of the four capitals of the United Kingdom.
  • Use maps, atlases and globes to identify the United Kingdom and its countries.

CROSS CURRICULAR LINKS:

  • Count how many different countries and capitals there are in the UK.
  • Use comparative language to describe and compare countries and cities in the UK-
  • write a list of the main features of the capitals of the United Kingdom.
  • write a very simple postcard describing one of the countries of the UK.

ICT Opportunities : Digital Research

  • Explore online games and simulations with drag and drop

Search selected digital resources using keywords

 

ART: INVESTIGATING PATTERNS (use William Morris as an inspiration)

  • Use a range of materials creatively to design and make products.
  • Use drawing and paint to develop ideas, experiences and imagination.
  • Develop a range of art and design techniques using colour, pattern, texture, line, shape and space.
  • Know about the work of William Morris.
  • Print with a range of hard and soft products.
  • Build repeating patterns and recognise pattern in the environment.
  • Experiment with printing motifs and colours.

CHALLENGE ACTIVITIES FOR THE MORE ABLE:

  • Create and use more complex printing blocks and patterns

Experiment with and determine the best materials to use for printing and explain why

ICT Opportunities : Digital Media

  • Explore the tools in a painting program to make a picture
  • Make simple digital animations
  • Explain the difference between a photo and a film clip

D.T: MAKING PUPPETS

  • Look at a variety of different puppets.
  • Know that puppets are made up of different parts.
  • Draw a puppet and label its parts.
  • Use a template to mark out the animals in Noah’s story.
  • Join the fabric together (using basic sewing techniques or glue)
  • Develop our own designs by adding different fabrics.
  • Perform the story of Noah with the puppets.

CHALLENGE ACTVITIES FOR THE MORE ABLE:

  • Independently join fabric using a basic sewing technique
  • Develop their own simple narrative or story using puppets

ICT Opportunities : Digital Research

  • Explore a website to find interesting information

Music:

  • Use their voices creatively by singing songs, chants & rhymes
  • Play un-tuned instruments musically.
  • Listen with concentration to a range of high quality recorded music.

Experiment with sounds using interrelated dimensions of music.

ICT Opportunities Digital Media

  • Record and play back sounds using a digital recording device

Create musical sequences using symbol-based software tools

Computing: Coding, Programming and Computer Games

  • Understand and create simple everyday step-by-step algorithms
  • Use simple commands to control the movement and actions of a person or onscreen object
  • Use symbols for direction, distance and turn in a simple program or sequence of actions
  • Explore games and simulations with drag/drop and basic variables

Identify obvious errors and correct them

P.E: games, gymnastic and dance (see the P.E folder for more guidance)

ICT Opportunities; Digital Media and Tools – Take photos and videos for a purpose, using basic camera tools – zoom and a tripod

R.E – SEE AGREED SYLLABUS  Christianity unit 1 and Christianity unit 2

Entitlement and Enrichment

Pollock’s Toy Museum/ Museum of childhood/ Southwark cathedral workshop on toys/ park visit (which has trees)

Y1 Term 1 All About Me

Y1 Term 2 Our World of Toys

Y1 Term 3 Home Sweet Home