Grimsdyke School Curriculum Map – Year 1

Autumn Term Spring Term Summer Term

TOPICS Home Sweet Let’s Party! Let’s Play! How does your It’s Alive! Oh I do like to be beside
Home (celebrations and (Toys now and garden grow? (Africa/Animals) the Seaside
(Homes now and festivals) then) (Plants) (British holidays now
then) and then)

English After the Sparks in the Sky Holiday recounts Jaspers -The Ugly Five - lighthouse keepers lunch
Fall/Dear Mother – firework beanstalk - descriptive writing - in structions
Text + Goose – adjectives The Naughty Bus instructions non fiction reports
writing Questions/ - story Where the forest meets
focus speech bubbles / bonfire night telling/story The Tiny Seed – Meerkat Mail – the sea - descriptions
letters poetry - writing diary entries non fiction reports
adjectives and diary wriitng -Dougals deep sea diary
Traction Man – Jim and the – descriptions and story
This is the house Kippers birthday story telling and Beanstalk – We’re going on a wriitng
that Jack built / – descriptions story lion hunt –
Oi Frog – invitations/party telling/writing retelling/story -The storm Whale - ??
Rhyming words lists Major Glad, writing
and rhyming Major Dizzy – Supertato – Queen Victorias bathing
phrases The tiger who letters/diary story -Lila and the machine -
came to tea – entries telling/writing secret rain – story letter/diaries/instructions
Peace at Last – instruction and writing/retelling
Repetitive story party lists Non fiction toys Olivers
retelling books – Non vegetables –
Where the wild fiction fact Story
Six Dinner Sid – things are – writing telling/letter
instructions/time descriptions using writing
adverbials adjectives and
conjunctions
‘Crew’
experience –
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recount using - Christmas

time adverbials advert - Whole
school unaided
Science
Animal grouping and
Animals and classification and body
humans Seasonal changes Seasonal Animals and parts parts
Materials
(Autumn) changes (Spring) of the body (Sea/coastal animals
Seasonal changes Animal habitats
(Autumn) Materials Plants (African animals)
Seasonal changes

Computing * intro- logging *2 publish – Microsoft WORD Internet – Safer *Create and Coding and programming
on/off/shut down sentences and – writing with use debug simple – Espresso Coding
* consolidate images word banks. Research programs –
2simple – words -Qwerty keyboard Project Program a Beebot
and images Kidrex.org
History Houses of the * Changes within *Changes within living
past living memory – memory –
How are toys Seaside/holidays then
different from and now
those in the past?

Geography *Locational *Geographical *Place knowledge *Human and Physical

knowledge – skills and *Africa -UK Coastline
features of local fieldwork *Human/Physical
area features
Map skills
P.E. ELMs/Games ELMs/Games ELMs / ELMs/ ELMs /Games ELMs/Athletics
Gymnastics Carnival dancing
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Xmas Dance-The Magic

performance Toys
dances/seasonal
dance units
R.E *What makes *What can we *Is it important to *How do we *What can *How do holy books
buildings special? learn from the have a day that is respond when Christians learn teach religious people
Sikhism. Diwali story about different to other we hear certain from the teachings about being close to
- Buildings good and evil in days? Christianity sounds? Islam. of Jesus? God? Christianity and
- Places of our lives? and Judaism. Christianity. Zoroastrianism.
worship Hinduism.
-Diwali
-Hanukkah
-Christmas

Design Moving pictures moving

Tech linked to R.E toys/playground
toys
Art *Self Portraits – Christmas themed *What is African themed art *seaside art
famous artists art – Christmas Sculpture?
Silhouettes cards/calendars
Family portraits
Music Sounds *Christmas Taking Off – Rain, rain go What’s the score – Feel the Pulse – Exploring
Interesting- Production Exploring pitch away – Exploring pulse and rhythm
Exploring sounds singing Exploring instruments and
*The long and timbre, tempo symbols
short of it- and dynamics
Exploring
duration
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MFL:
French Getting to Know Numbers On fait la fête Portraits Les Quatre Amis Ca pousse!
You 1-10 (Celebrations) (Portraits) (The Four Friends) (Growing Things)

TRIPS *Walk to Hatch * posting letters *Walk to local *Spring Walk *Mini Beast *Crew – Science in Action
End look at to Father park to look at workshop (Ranger * Day in the park
houses/signs of Christmas playground Stu) –
autumn (local equipment * paradise wildlife
area) *Crew –toys old park –
*Crew- Houses and new – wk 1
and Homes *Visit to
Synagogue ?