West Witney Primary School

West Witney Primary School

‘Inspiring life-long learners with the confidence to achieve their potential’

Year 1 Curriculum – Core Subjects (See also Grammar* and Spelling* Booklets for parents)
English (Year1)
· Can apply phonics’ knowledge and skills to help decode words
· Can recognise and read common exception words
· Can read aloud accurately books that are consistent with their developing phonics knowledge rereading books to build fluency
· Can discuss the meaning of words
· Is developing their enjoyment of reading by listening to a range of books and poetry
· Understands the books they can read accurately and fluently, and discuss any significant features
· Checks that the text makes sense, make inferences and predicting what might happen next
· Can participate in discussion about what is read to them, taking turns and listening to others
· Is beginning to learn poetry by heart
· Can compose a sentence orally before writing it
· Can sequence sentences to form short narratives
· Can discuss what they have written with the teacher or other pupils
· Has a secure understanding of what a sentence is*
· Can use full stops and capital letters*
· Can use basic punctuation: , ! and ?*
· Can spell some key words accurately*
· Can use phonics knowledge to spell words*
· Can name the letters in the alphabet*
· Can form letters correctly and sit them on the line
· Is beginning to join letters
Letters and Sounds programme is used to support phonics teaching and learning. / Mathematics (Year 1)
·  Can count, read and write numbers to 100 in numerals and work out what is one more/less
·  Can count in multiples of 2s, 5s and 10s
·  Can identify and represent numbers using objects
·  Can read and write numbers 1-20 in words
·  Can interpret mathematical statements involving addition and subtraction
·  Can add and subtract to 20 and solve simple one-step problems
·  Can solve one-step problems involving multiplication and division using concrete objects or by drawing pictures
·  Recognises, finds and names a halves and quarter as one of two or four equal parts of an object, shape or quantity
·  Can compare, describe and solve problems involving capacity, weight, length and time
·  Can measure and begin to record capacity, weight, length and time
·  Can recognise and knows the value of different denominations of coins and notes
·  Can sequence events and recognises and uses language of time
·  Can read the analogue clock for o’clock and half past
·  Can describe and name common 2-D and 3-D shapes
·  Can describe position, direction and movement, including whole, half, quarter and three-quarter turns / Science (Year1)
Scientific Enquiry
·  Can ask simple questions and recognise they can be answered in different ways
·  Can observe closely using simple equipment
·  Can perform simple tests
·  Can begin to identify and classify objects
·  Can use observations to suggest answers
·  Can gather and record data to help answer questions
Computing (Key Stage 1)
· Can understand what sequences or instructions are when programming
· Can create and debug simple programs
· Can use reasoning to predict the behaviour of simple programs (e.g. on/ off switch)
· Can use technology purposefully to create, organise and retrieve digital information
· Recognises common uses of information technology beyond school
·  Uses technology safely and respectfully

‘Learning to be Creative across the Curriculum’ Cycle A

Doyouthinkhesawus / Raising the Roof / Yo Ho Ho!
Science – Animals and Plants
Can identify and name a variety of common animals: birds,fish, amphibians, reptiles, mammals and invertebrates
Can identify and name a variety of common animals that arecarnivores, herbivores and omnivores
All living things
Can explore and compare the differencesbetween things that are living, that aredead and that have never lived
History and Geography – Let’s be Palaeontologists
Can show an awareness of the past, using common words and phrases relating to the passing of time
Understands some of the ways in which we find out about the past
Art – Dinosaur Inspired Art and Sculpture
Can use a range of materials creatively to design
and make products
Can use drawing, painting and sculpture to develop
and share their ideas
RE and DT – Harvest
Understands where food comes from
PSHE - Peace / Science – Materials
Can distinguish between an object and the materialfrom which it is made.
Can identify and name a variety of everydaymaterials, including wood, plastic, glass, metal,water and rock.
Can describe the simple physical properties of avariety of everyday materials
Can identify and compare the uses of a variety ofeveryday materials, including wood, brick, and paper/cardboard
History - The Great Fire of London
Is able to sequence events in chronological order
Can identify similarities and differences between ways of life in different periods
Can use common historical terms
Can ask and answer questions, choosing and using parts of stories and other sources
Art and Computing – Jackson Pollock
Can use a wide range of art and design techniques involving colour, pattern, texture, line, shape, form and space
Has a growing knowledge of artists and their work
DT Making Tudor Homes
Can develop, model and communicate their ideas through talking, drawing
Can select from and use a range of tools and equipment
RE – Diwali and Christmas
PSHE - Charity and Selflessness / Science – Materials and Forces (KS2)
Can describe the simple physical properties of a variety of everyday materials Notice and describe how things move, usingsimple comparisons such as faster and slower.
Can compare how different things move.
Is beginning to identify the effect of forces on objects, such as push, pull, and water resistance
Geography – the Seven Seas and Treasure Maps
Can name and locate the world’s seven continents and five oceans using maps and atlases
Can use geographical vocabulary to refer to human and physical features e.g. cliff, coast, forest, hill, port, etc.
Use simple compass directions
History
Can use common historical terms
Can ask and answer questions, choosing and using parts of stories and other sources
Is beginning to understand key features of events
Art - Drawing and Painting
Can use a wide range of art and design techniques involving colour, pattern, texture, line, shape, form and space
Can compare different artists and make links with their own work
RE – Stories from the Bible – Old Testament
PSHE - Hope
Physical Education – Dinosaur Stomp
Is mastering basic movements including running, jumping, throwing and catching
Is mastering balance, agility and co-ordination, and is beginning to apply these in a range of activities
Can participate in team games, developing simple tactics for attacking and defending
Can perform dances using simple movement patterns / Music - Christmas Performance and Sea Shanties!
Can play tuned and un-tuned instruments
Can sing and use their voice to create and compose music
Is interested how music is created, produced and communicated

‘Learning to be Creative across the Curriculum’ Cycle A

Take One Author / Ee – I Ee – I – Oh! / Dungeons and Dragons
Science – Seasons, Light (KS2) and Electricity (KS2)
Can observe and describe weather associated with the seasons and how day length varies.
Can identify common appliances thatrun on electricity.
Can construct a simple series electricalcircuit.
Can observe and name a variety of light sources including the sun, explaining how light travels to our eyes
Geography
Can use geographical vocabulary to refer to human and physical features e.g. forest, hill, city, town, farm etc.
Can use maps and aerial photos to identify the United Kingdom and its countries and physical and human features
Can ask geographical questions
Can identify seasonal and daily weather patterns in the United Kingdom and elsewhere in relation to the equator
Can make comparisons between different localities
History – Lighthouses and the Author
Can ask and answer questions, choosing and using parts of stories and other sources
DT – Picnic Lunch
Can use the basic principles of a healthy and varied diet to prepare dishes
Understands where food comes from
Art - Drawing and Painting
Can use drawing, painting and sculpture to develop and share their ideas
RE – Stories from the Bible – New Testament
PSHE - Unity / Science – All Living Things: Habitats
Can identify that most living things live in habitats to which they are suited and describe how different habitats provide the basic needs of different kinds of plants and animals and how they depend on each other
Animals and Plants
Can describe and comparethe structure of a variety of commonanimals (birds, fish, amphibians, reptiles, mammals andinvertebrates, including pets).
Notices that animals, including humans, have offspring whichgrow into adults.
Can investigate and describe the basic needs of animals, includinghumans, for survival (water, food and air)
Geography and History – Fieldwork
Can use geographical vocabulary to refer to human and physical features e.g. forest, hill, city, town, farm etc.
Can use maps and aerial photos to identify features
Knows about recent changes in farming
Knows about significant events in the locality
Art – Printing and Great Printers
Can use a wide range of art and design techniques involving colour, pattern, line and space and evaluate work
DT - Textiles
Can develop, model and communicate their ideas
through talking
Can select from and use a range of tools and resources
RE – Traditional Islamic Stories and Ramadan
PSHE - Honesty / Science – Materials
Can distinguish between an object and the materialfrom which it is made.
Can identify and name a variety of everydaymaterials, including wood, plastic, glass, metal,water and rock.
Is finding out how the shapes of solid objects madefrom some materials can be changed bysquashing, bending, twisting and stretching.
Can describe the simple physical properties of avariety of everyday materials.
History
Can identify similarities and differences between ways of life in different periods
Can ask and answer questions using stories and other sources
Geography – Check those Borders
Can use maps and aerial photos
Can ask geographical questions
Art – Drawing and Weaving
Can use drawing to develop and share their ideas
Can use a wide range of art and design techniques
involving colour and patterns and evaluate finished art
DT – Construction
Can design and make purposeful, appealing products based
on given design criteria
Can evaluate their own and others’ products
RE – Saint George and the Dragon
PSHE - Thoughtfulness and Appreciation
Physical Education
Is mastering basic movements including running, jumping, throwing and catching
Is mastering balance, agility and co-ordination, and is beginning to apply these in a range of activities
Can participate in team games, developing simple tactics for attacking and defending
Can perform dances using simple movement patterns / Music
Can play tuned and un-tuned instruments
Can sing and use their voice to create and compose music
Is interested how music is created, produced and communicated