Year 1 Term 3

April to July

Last updated

11 March 2025 at 05:22:40

Homes in the Past 🏠 🛖

Maths 🧮

Multiplication and Division

Count in 2s
Count in 10s
Count in 5s
Recognise equal groups
Add equal groups
Make arrays
Make doubles
Make equal groups - grouping
Make equal groups - sharing

Fractions

Recognise a half of an object or a shape
Find half of an object or a shape
Recognise a half of a quantity
Find a half of a quantity
Recognise a quarter of an object or a shape
Find a quarter of an object or a shape
Recognise a quarter of a quantity
Find a quarter of a quantity

Position and Direction

Describe turns
Describe position - left and right
Describe position - forwards and backwards
Describe position - above and below
Ordinal numbers

Place Value

Count from 50 to 100
Tens to 100
Partition into tens and ones
The number line to 100
1 more, 1 less
Compare numbers with the same number of tens
Compare any two numbers

Money

Unitising
Recognise coins
Recognise notes
Count in coins

Time

Before and after
Days of the week
Months of the year
Hours, minutes and seconds
Tell the time to the hour
Tell the time to the half hour

Science 🧬

Plants & Planting (Biology) ♻️

Plant parts
Tree parts
Deciduous trees
Evergreen trees
Trees in my local area
Observe changes
Caring for the planet

Growing and Cooking (Sustainability) ♻️

Where does my food come from?
What have I planted and grown this year?

Sustainable Energy ♻️

Reading 📖

In Year 1, all students have access to a comprehensive and systematic Phonics programme tailored to their individual needs: 👉 read more.

Stories & Books

A Friend for Little Bear

Describe the character, setting, problem, solution and create an alternative ending.

Brer Rabbit

Character and setting descriptions and comprehension questions.

A Squash and a Squeeze

Sequencing of events: first, then, next, finally. Character descriptions and feelings.

How to Hide a Lion

Sequencing of events, recount and description.

Wolf Won't Bite

Character description, comprehension questions and create a new story.

Jack and the Flum Flum Tree

What the Ladybird Heard

Speech bubbles, description and facts sheet.

Alan's Big Scary Teeth

Prediction

Dogs Don't Do Ballet

Questions and description.

The Squirrels Who Squabble

Character and setting description.

The Storm Whale

What happens next? Character thoughts and feelings.

Perfect Square

Sequencing of events and comprehension questions.

Writing ✍️

Narrative

Basic sentences (who, when, where, what)
Finger spaces between words
Capital letters and full stops to mark sentences.
Capital letters for names.
Work shows evidence of attempts to describe events, characters and settings
Exclamation marks for exclamations
Coordinating conjunctions: and
Adjectives to describe a noun
Adverbs for description and information
Short Narratives
Descriptive writing

Writing to communicate: Postcards

Basic sentences (who, when, where, what)
Finger spaces between words
Capital letters and full stops to mark sentences
Capital letters for names
Work shows evidence of attempts to describe events, characters and settings
Exclamation marks for exclamations
Questions Marks for questions
Coordinating conjunctions: and, because
Writing a postcard

Across the curriculum 🌏

Homes in the Past

Household items now and then
Travel and transport
Castles and museums
Brunei history related to royalty
Home designs (Museum of Technology)
Inventions on timeline
Transport (progression from horse, to train, to car, to plane, to rocket)
Coronation of QEII (link to 50s TV and Royalty)
Sultan and Regalia
Past or present: where would you live?

Curriculum Objectives & Expectations

Start to compare two versions of past events
Start to understand that there can be different versions of the same event from the past
Observe and use pictures, photographs, and artefacts to find out about the past
Explain that there are different types of evidence and sources, such as photographic and written that can be used to help represent the past
Use evidence to explain the key features of events
Sequence artefacts and events that are close together in time
Know and recount episodes from stories and significant events in history
Describe significant individuals from the past
Use historical vocabulary to retell simple stories about the past
Begin to understand chronology using a timeline
Analyse significant events through at least two different lenses
Share own ideas and opinions about an event
Make judgements about significant people based on primary sources
Use historical vocabulary to articulate opinions

Key Vocabulary

Significant, event, monarchy, technology, transport, travel, nation, exploration, invention.

Art, Design & Technology 🎨 👷

Develop a range of techniques
Introduce basic tones and shading (pencil)
Develop a range of techniques (colour, line, shape, form and space)
Tonal drawing with charcoal and chalk
Observational drawing
Produce an expanding range of textures
Experiment with a variety of media (pasta and string prints)
Produce an expanding range of patterns textures. Experiment with a variety of media (collage textures with scraps)
Identify differences in ways people are represented in art
Self-portrait inspired by either: Vincent Van Gogh, Leonardo da Vinci or Frida Kahlo
What is Sculpture?
Look at selection of sculptures and what materials they are made from
Create and arrange shapes as a design for own sculpture
Sculpture
Make a sketch of your sculpture, add colour and patterns to the sketch
Assemble it using various attachment techniques
Year 1 Sculpture Exhibition

PSHE 😀 🫶

Personal, Social, Health and Economic education

Physical health and mental wellbeing

What it means to be healthy and why it is important and ways to take care of themselves on a daily basis
About basic hygiene routines, e.g. hand washing and about healthy and unhealthy foods, including sugar intake
About physical activity and how it keeps people healthy
About people who can help them to stay healthy, such as parents, doctors, nurses, dentists, and how to keep safe in the sun

Growing and Changing

To recognise what makes them special and unique including their likes, dislikes and what they are good at
How they are the same and different to others
About different kinds of feelings and how to recognise feelings in themselves and others
How feelings can affect how people behave

Keeping Safe

How rules can help to keep us safe
Why some things have age restrictions, e.g. TV and film, games, toys or play areas
Basic rules for keeping safe online
Whom to tell if they see something online that makes them feel unhappy, worried, or scared

Moving up to Year 2