BedlingtonStation PrimarySchool

Crankpot Industries:

Amazing Humans

Year 1 Term 2B

CONTEXT

Wilkommen! Please join me here at ‘Crankpot Industries’ where you will become scientists,  helping me, Professor Crankpot solve my problems. I can be very forgetful and I rely on my scientists to find things out for me. I will send us messages with special tasks for you to complete! Eureka! 

CLASS READER

Food Stories

BROADENING EXPERIENCES

Food tasting

British Science Week

Jigsaw PSHE ‘Healthy Me’. We will learn about healthy eating, exercise and healthy minds. 

Curriculum Overview

Oracy Development Opportunities

ENGLISH

Focus Narrative:

Repeating Stories

Key Text/Stimulus:

Oliver's Vegetables

Writing Outcome:

Reworking of Oliver's Vegetables putting themselves in the story and then thinking of new vegetables (sweetcorn, peas, peppers), new opinions (“crunchy”, “juicy”, “yummy”) and new setting (school garden, allotment, greenhouse)

Hot seating/retelling

  • Owl Babies – Martin Waddell
  • The Tiger Who Came to Tea – Judith Kerr
  • Funnybones – Allan Ahlberg (human body link) 

Reading Spine

Focus Non-Narrative:
Instructions

Key Text/Stimulus:
The Giant Jam Sandwich

Writing  Outcome:

Write instructions for Professor Crankpot to tell him how to make a jam sandwich.

TALK for WRITING

Rhyme Spine

Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes

Five Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed

Baa Baa Black Sheep

Down in the Jungle

Old MacDonald Had a Farm

Five Little Speckled Frogs

There Was a Crocodile

Cross-curriculum support genres:

Labels, lists & captions

Recounts

Focus Grammar

  • Question marks
  • Singular and plural
  • Continue capital letter/finger space/full stop practise.

ART

Disciplines:

Painting (Watercolour)

Medium:

Watercolour

Artists:

Paul Klee, Emma Burleigh

Pathway: Exploring Watercolour🔗

In this pathway children are introduced to what sculpture can be, and invited to explore the work of other sculptors whilst taking a playful and inventive approach to making their own sculptures.

Watercolour –paint mixed with water

Spread – when paint moves across the paper

Mix – when colours join together to make new colours or shades.

What can watercolour paint do?

Watercolour paint can spread, mix, and make soft, light colours when we add water.

 

RE

What is the Trinity?This is the ‘complete relationship’ between God (the Father), Jesus (his son) and the Holy Spirit

What is Palm Sunday? This is the day where Jesus rode into Jerusalem. He fulfilled Old Testament prophecies which said that this would happen when the “king” came

 

Jigsaw RE

Why was Jesus welcomed like a king or celebrity by the crowds on Palm Sunday?🔗

(Northumberland Agreed Syllabus - Why does Easter matter to Christians?)

 

Trinity – The Christian belief in one God with three parts: the Father, the Son (Jesus), and the Holy Spirit.

Jesus – Christians believe he is God's son and an important part of the Trinity.

Palm Sunday – The special day when Jesus rode into Jerusalem and people welcomed him with palm leaves.

 

HISTORY

National Curriculum:

Changes within living memory

  • Share traditional recipes and meals from the past and compare to favourite meals today.
  • Look at food packaging and how it has changed.
  • Talk about WW2 rationing and what life was like for children.

 

Content:

Food we used to eat

What was food like in WW2 and how is it different from food today?  

- People didn’t have access to lots of different foods like we do today.

- Food in the past was much more local than today. Our food comes from all around the world.

- Some foods we have today in the UK were not available in WW2 (bananas etc)

 

Rationing – In WW2, people were only allowed small amounts of food.

Local – Food that comes from nearby, not from far away.

Different – Food in the past was not the same as the food we have today.

 

GEOGRAPHY

National Curriculum:

No focus

 

Content:

Origin countries of fruit (look at labels and find on map) Link to DT

PE

Real PE Unit:

Unit 4

Cog Focus

  • Creative Skills

Fundamental Movement Skills

  • Coordination: Ball Skills
  • Counter Balance: With a Partner

Planning Link

Sport:

Invasion Games

DT

Pathway: Smoothies🔗

Preparing foods by cutting and juicing and selecting fruits and vegetables to create a smoothie to meet a design brief.

Core: Cooking and nutrition:

How do we cut fruit safely?

We cut fruit safely by using a child-safe knife, holding the fruit steady with a claw or bridge grip, and making sure an adult is there to help us..

Blend – To mix ingredients together until they become smooth, especially using a blender.

Claw Grip – A way to hold food safely when cutting by curling your fingers like a claw and keeping fingertips tucked in.

Bridge Grip – A way to hold food by making a bridge shape with your hand and keeping fingers on either side of the knife.

SCIENCE

National Curriculum:

Animals and Humans

identify, name, draw and label the basic parts of the human body and say which part of the body is associated with each sense

 

Ongoing:

observe changes across the 4 seasons

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

 


Big Question: How do our bodies help us move and do different things?

Focus: Identifying, Grouping and Classifying and Pattern-Seeking. Children observe their own bodies, name and group body parts, and look for patterns in how different parts move and work together, explaining their ideas using simple reasons.

Outline: The children are working at Crankpot Industries for Professor Crankpot, helping him investigate find out about Amazing Humans. They learn and sing Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes and play Simon Says using body parts, noticing how their bodies move. Through discussion and observation, the children begin to identify and group body parts and explore how these parts help humans move and function.

Look for patterns: Which body parts move and which do not? Which body parts bend in similar ways? How different body parts help us do similar actions (walking, jumping, bending)? Body parts that are found in the same place on everyone?

 

What changes happen in nature during spring?In spring, the weather starts to get warmer and plants begin to grow again. Trees grow new leaves and flowers start to bloom. Many animals have babies in spring, like lambs and chicks. You might see more insects, birds building nests, and longer days with more sunlight.

What are the main parts of the human body?The human body has many important parts. Some of the basic parts we can see are the head, arms, legs, hands, feet, eyes, ears, mouth, and nose. We can draw and label these parts to show where they are on the body. Each part has a special job to help us move, see, hear, or speak.
Which body parts do we use for our five senses?We use different parts of the body for each of our five senses. We use our eyes to see, our ears to hear, our nose to smell, our tongue to taste, and our skin (especially our hands) to touch and feel. Each sense helps us understand the world around us. These body parts work together to keep us safe and aware.
What is spring weather like and how do the days change?Spring weather can be a mix of sunshine, rain, and wind. Sometimes it's warm, but it can still be chilly or wet. The days begin to get longer, with more daylight than in winter. This means the sun rises earlier and sets later as spring goes on.

Body – All the parts that make up a person or animal.

Senses – Sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch – how we understand the world.

Label – A word that shows the name of a body part in a picture or diagram.

 

 

Spring – The season when plants begin to grow, and baby animals are born.

Grow – What plants and trees start to do in spring.

Rain – Common weather in spring that helps plants grow.

Blossom – Flowers that bloom on trees during spring.

Longer days – In spring, the daylight lasts longer as days get brighter.

COMPUTING

Online Safety

Lesson 4: Posting and sharing online🔗

Learning what is meant by the term 'digital footprint' and finding out how we can ensure that the things we share and post online do not negatively impact us later in life.

Programming

Bee-Bots🔗

Exploring commands, instructions and errors through the use of a Bee-Bot.

MUSIC


Oak Academy

Music and movement: feeling the pulse and changing the tempo🔗

Performing/singing/evaluations

Tell a story

Choose a story you have at home and know really well. Can you make a new story by changing something? You could change the setting, a character or an object. Can you tell your new story to someone in your house?

Create a collage

Can you make a collage? You can make a collage using lots of different materials such as paper, leaves, or recyclable materials. Your collage can be stuck down or temporary – maybe you can take a photo or your creation?

Healthy Meal

Help your grown up make a healthy meal at home. Can you help prepare the ingredients. Can you give some instructions? Talk about the senses you are using to make and eat the meal. Which did you use?

Skip CountingPractise counting in 2s. Remember all numbers in the 2 times table end with 0, 2, 4, 6, or 8!

Number BondsPractise your number bonds to 10.

Learn a new skill

Climb a big hill

Create your own song/poem

Dance with someone at home

Make a mud pie

Paint with your hands or feet

Reading
Don't forget to read every night for at least 10 minutes. Complete your bookmark each time you read. It should take you 3 weeks to fill a whole book mark.You can read anything - books, comics, websites and your phonics book!

Topic Vocabulary

These are words you will come across this half term in the work you will be doing. Take some time to find out what the mean and discuss them with your grown ups at home. This will help you when in school.

Watercolour

Spread

Mix

Trinity

Jesus

Palm Sunday

Rationing

Rain

Blossom

 

Local

Different

Bend

Grip

Body

Senses

Label

Spring

Grow

 

Tier 2 Vocabulary

Tier 2 vocabulary are words you often come across in reading and schoolwork that aren't everyday conversation words but help you understand and express more complex ideas.

wipe

play

bash

slip

wide

turn

wear

push



 

pull

ask

rub

wash

cry

walk

ride