Curriculum Overview

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 explore some traditional African songs.

Design Technology We will be focussing on designing and making. We will explore African masks and rainsticks. We will design a suitcase for the character in our story.

Art We will explore the work of Tanzanian painter, Edward Tingatinga through the mediums of drawing and painting.  

English

This half term we will be reading ‘Meerkat Mail’. We will be reading the story together, exploring setting, and characters and using it to help use explore different types of writing.

Postcards and Letters We will use pictures and character from the story to help us create postcards from different locations. We will also learn how to write a letter and try to use the features in our own letters.

Information Posters We will research and explore a country in Africa and create travel posters to persuade people to visit.

Maths

Position and Direction We will explore ordinal numbers and describe position using words such as left, right, above below, forwards and backwards

Fractions We will explore halves and quarters – recognising and finding a half of an object, shape and quantity and recognising and finding a quarter of an object, shape and quantity

Multiplication and Division We will continue to practise counting in 2s, 5s and 10s We will work on recognising and adding groups, making arrays and making doubles and dividing by making equal groups by grouping and sharing

PSHE

Our whole school Jigsaw PSHE focus this half term is ‘Relationships’. In Year 1 we will explore this through circle time, games, activities and videos. We will learn about all kinds of relationships, including, family, friends and people who help us and about how we show respect to others.

Understanding the World

Geography We will explore a town in Africa and compare it to our town of Bedlington. We will use maps to help use learn and discover more about the world. We will find out about Botswana and use this to create information posters.

Computing We will explore ‘Coding’, using algorithms to create simple computer programs

RE We explore the question ‘Who do Christians say made the world?’ and explore the Jewish/Christian Creation story. Science We will continue to explore the seasons as we move into Summer.We will also develop our scientific enquiry skills through questioning, exploring and presenting results.

Physical

This half term we will develop our Physical Skills - Coordination: Sending and Receiving and Agility: Reaction/Response - in our PE lessons. We will also continue to work with our Newcastle United Foundation specialist.