Oliver Jeffers. Key Texts. Senses poetry. Non-fiction texts. The Large Family
stories. Elmer stories. The Kiss That Missed. Non-Fiction texts about castles/
dragons.
PORTWAY INFANT SCHOOL CURRICULUM OVERVIEW: Year 1 2012/13 Autumn i School Theme Year Group Theme Curriculum Focus English - writing
English – Speaking and Listening, inc. role play Author Focus Key Texts Mathematics Science ICT
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Autumn ii
Spring i
The Big Wide World (5) Elephants
Christmas (2)
Playgrounds
Food Glorious Food (6) Pirates
Geography
Maths & Literacy
Non-Narrative Unit 1 (Lists, labels and captions) (1wk)
Change (4)
Snowmen
Geog, Art
Literacy
Literacy, History, DT, Geog
Art, PSHE,
Poetry unit 1 – Using the Senses (2wks) Non-Narrative Unit 2 (Instructions- How to be a Pirate) (2wks)
Narrative unit 1 – Stories with familiar settings (4wks) Narrative unit 2 – stories from other cultures, part 1 (2wks) Labels/captions-recap
Revisit Poetry unit 1 – Using the Senses (2wks)
Narrative unit 3 – Traditional and Fairy Tales (4wks) Narrative unit 2 – stories with predictable/patterned language, part 2 (2 wks)
Narrative unit 4 – stories about fantasy worlds (4wks) Non-narrative unit 3 – recounts/dictionary (2wks)
Home role Pirate Ship role play play Recalling events in order-walk to park Babette Cole
Create or retell Large Family stories using puppets
Small world castle
Rocket ship
Jill Murphy
Senses poetry Non-fiction texts
The Large Family stories Elmer stories
Forces
Sound and Hearing
Living things
Labels
Beebot-treasure map
Activ Primary Clicker-Elmer
David Melling
Materialsmelting
History
Geography
RE DT Art
Spring ii
Myths, Fairy tales and Legends (6) Castles and Dragons
Local area Map making
Where in the world is Africa? What is Africa like? What are different parts of Africa like? What countries make up Africa? Diwali
Advent
Summer i Easter (1)
Space
RE
Colour mixing
Sounds Interesting Sea shanties Games 1
Christmas songs
Other people are special
Music PE PSHE/RRR Trips/visitors
Class charter, Play Playgrounds in the local area
Working well together
TASC
Playground equipment
Make a pirate ship
Gym 1
Games 2
Christmasthemed art (cards/ decorations etc)
Dance
Xmas tree decoration
All at Sea (5)
Rumble In the Jungle
Titanic
Literacy, Sci, Art,
Hist, Geog, DT
Poetry unit 3 (2 wks) Non-narrative unit 4 –
Non fiction unit 5 – recounts (2wks)
Information texts (5wks
Poetry Unit 2 – Pattern and Rhyms (2 weeks)
Jungle explorer
Simon Bartram
Paul Geraghty
Oliver Jeffers
The Kiss That Missed Non-Fiction texts about castles/dragons We’re going on a Dragon Hunt
Man on the Moon Information texts about space
Information texts about jungles Poems with an animal/jungle theme
Materials
Growing
Living Things
Light and Dark
Rev Nat Art-Dragon pic Elf Tales Wizkid History of Castles Castles through the ages Who built castles? (Woodlands Junior has some really good information) The Local Area
Wizkid Slide show
Word
Beebot Wizkid
History of Space. Key discoveries and events in the history of space.
People Jesus Met
Titanic
Easter
Playgrounds Textiles Near and Far
Summer ii
Animals (7)
3D sculpture-paper-mache egg + play dough creature
Water colours
Where are the rainforests of the world? What are they like?
Where are the key places in the Titanic Story?
Story
Raksha Bandhan
Design and make a fruit kebab
Moving Pictures
Collage Layered camouflage picture Henri Rousseau
seascapes Pastel Titanic Pictures
Hairy Scary Castle (3 singing pigs) Gym 2, Games 3
Man on the moon
Carnival of the animals
Water music
Dance, Gym 3
Athletics, Games 4
Dance, Athletics
Caring for ourselves
Caring for others
Keeping safe
Moving forward
Knights Day – James
Mobile planetarium
Make a Drawbridge
Titanic Museum
Lowering the lifeboats
Moving On (1)
PSHE
