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The TIME Institute:

Heroes of the Past

Year 1 Term 1B

CONTEXT

Time Agents under the direction of the agents at The Time Institute must  research and investigate time anomalies cause by the time-trickster Vortex as he travels through time. They will present the information the find to restore the timeline. The Time Agents will use the information they have gathered to feedback to The Time Institute. They will present their findings to the Agents.

CLASS READER

Rainbow Stories

ROLE PLAY

Bakery/Cafe

BROADENING EXPERIENCES

World Science DayGuy FawkesRemembrance Day

 

Curriculum Overview

English

Historical Stories We will be reading stories based on the Great Fire of London. We will explore characters, setting, plot and sentences. We will use familiar story language to tell stories to each other.

Recounts We will learn what a recount is and what makes it different to a story. We will write a recount of something we have done, write diaries and look at some diaries from the past, including Samuel Pepys’ diary of The Great Fire of London.  

 

Creative

Music We will explore music through singing with our specialist music teacher. We will use songs and games to help us learn lots of different styles of music and a wide range of songs and tunes. We will practise and perform our Christmas Nativity songs

Design Technology We will be using cooking and nutrition skills to make our own gingerbread biscuits and/or bakery bread.

Art We will be exploring the work of Andy Warhol and using different art techniques to re create some of his famous artwork. We will learn about his life and how he created his artwork.

 

Understanding the World

Science We will continue to observe the changing seasons as we move from Autumn to Winter. We will discuss what happens in Winter.

History While working as Time Agents we will explore significant people and events from the past, including, Samuel Pepys, The Great Fire of London and Grace Darling.

Computing We will look at home computer programmes can help us group and sort. We will learn about pictograms and what they can show us.

RE We will talk about what it means to belong to a community. We will find out about how different faiths bring a sense of community to their members.  

 

Maths

Shape We will continue our work on 2D and 3D shapes. We will learn to identify, describe and sort according to their properties. We will learn the names and properties of 2d and 3d shapes and recognise them in real life.

Add and subtract We will look at symbols and language relating to adding and subtracting and learn strategies to help us add and subtract numbers and objects.

Number: place value We will continue to explore and learn about number and place value including ordering numbers, ordinal numbers (1st, 2nd etc.) and the number line. This will also help us with adding and subtracting. 

Physical

This half term we will continue to develop our movement skills in Dynamic Balance to Agility: Jumping and Landing and Static Balance: Seated in our PE lessons, one of which will be dance with a Newcastle United Foundation specialist.

PSHE

Our whole school Jigsaw PSHE focus this half term is ‘Celebrating Difference’.. In Year 1 we will explore this through circle time, games, activities and videos. We will learn about differences, friendships and families and diversity.

Oracy Development Opportunities

ENGLISH

Focus Narrative:

Historical Stories (Retelling/Story Language)

Key Text/Stimulus:

Great Fire of London

 

Focus Non-Narrative:

Recounts

Key Text/Stimulus:

Sammy the street dog

Curriculum support genres:

Labels, lists & captions

Hot seating

ART

Artist:

Andy Warhol

  • Exploring a range of Any Warhol artworks
  • Identifying key features of Pop Art artworks
  • Using Pop Art feature to create own artworks

Feedback and evaluations

Medium:

Drawing

Painting

RE

Northumberland Agreed Syllabus

Unit 1.1 What do Christians believe God is like?

 

 

HISTORY

National Curriculum:

Events beyond living memory that are significant nationally or globally significant historical events, people and places in their own locality

  • Events leading up to the fire.
  • Samuel Pepys and his diary
  • Who was Grace Darling?

 

Hot seating

Content:

Great Fire of London/Samuel Pepys

Grace Darling

Links:

English - Recounts

Grace Daring - RNLI

GEOGRAPHY

National Curriculum:

name, locate and identify characteristics of the 4 countries and capital cities of the United Kingdom and its surrounding seas

  • What and where is London?
  • Locate London on UK map and other country capitals.
  • Locate key London locations linked to Great Fire.
  • Identify key London locations in photographs.

 

Content:

London - Linked to history

PE

Real PE Unit:

Unit 2

Cog Focus

  • Social Skills

Fundamental Movement Skills

  • Dynamic Balance to Agility: Jumping and Landing
  • Static Balance: Seated

Planning Link

Sport:

Games skills

DT

National Curriculum:

Focus objectives: Cooking and Nutrition

Focus skills:

  • Knead
  • Cut out

Group evaluations and discussions

Recipes:

Gingerbread biscuits

SCIENCE

National Curriculum:

Working Scientifically

Investigations:

Observe over time - Winter hunt - identify, group and classify found materials by properties, pattern, made/natural.

Weather diary

 

Ongoing:

observe changes across the 4 seasons

observe and describe weather associated with the seasons and how day length varies

 

COMPUTING

National Curriculum:

Computer Science

Grouping and Sorting (Purple Mash Unit 1.2) 

Information Tech

Pictograms (Purple Mash Unit 1.3)

Digital Literacy

School Acceptable Use Policy

MUSIC

Singing

Specialist singing teacher.

Repetitive songs

Call and response

Performing/singing/evaluations