Curriculum Overview
Year 1 Curriculum Overview 2025-2026
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 | Autumn 1 8 weeks 
 | Autumn 2 7 weeks 
 | Spring 1 6 weeks 
 | Spring 2 5 weeks 
 | Summer 1 6 weeks 
 | Summer 2 7 weeks 
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| English | *Captions, labels and Sentence Structure 
 Contemporary Fiction Hairy Maclary 
 *Retell & Description Contemporary Fiction Lost and Found Billy and the Beast The Lion Inside | *Narrative Story *Diary Here Comes Frankie Contemporary Fiction 
 
 
 *Letter writing *Questions and Facts Classic Fiction The Jolly Postman 
 | *Narrative - new version Traditional Tales and Alternative versions 
 Little Red Riding Hood 
 | *Classic Fiction/significant author 
 A Midsummer Night’s Dream | *Poetry: Rhyming couplets Big Green Crocodile 
 
 *Geographical Report – The UK *Note Taking (disciplinary writing) Non Chronological Report | *Indirect Recount – people’s history/bio (disciplinary writing) Significant People 
 
 *Narrative- story Invent a character Contemporary Fiction The Adventures of the Egg Box Dragon 
 
 
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| Maths | Number: counting within 100 
 | Number: comparison, wholes and parts Number: place value (0 to 5) Geometry: shape | Geometry: shape Number: place value (0 to 10) Number: addition | Number: addition Number: addition and subtraction facts within 10 | Number: place value (0 to 20) Number: multiplication (unitising and coin recognition) | Number: multiplication (unitising and coin recognition) Geometry: position and direction Measurement: time | 
| Science | Animals 
 Seasonal changes -Autumn 
 Scientist focus: Anders Celsius | Everyday Materials 
 
 
 Scientist focus: Charles Mackintosh | Animals, including humans My Body (senses) Seasonal changes -Winter Scientist focus: Steve Backshall
 | STEM Project 
 Fairy Tale Problems 
 Scientist focus: Linda Brown Buck
 | Seasonal Changes | Plants 
 
 
 Scientist focus:Beatrix Potter | 
| History | 
 | How have familiar things changed over time? 
 A similarity and difference enquiry | 
 
 | Why are these two queens important? 
 Queen Elizabeth 1 Queen Elizabeth II 
 Significance enquiry | 
 
 | Why are the journeys of Mansa Musa and Ibn Battuta remembered? 
 Significance enquiry | 
| Geography | Mapping our Area- Local Area study | 
 | The UK – countries, capitals, seas, seasons, weather, settlements | 
 | Comparative Study- London & Nairobi | 
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| Computing | Computing and Networks Technology around us | Creating Media Digital Painting 
 
 | Programming A Moving a Robot 
 | Data and Information Grouping Data | Creating Media Digital Writing | Programming B Programming animations | 
| Design and Technology | Mechanisms Sliders and Levers 
 Project: Moving Picture | Mechanisms Sliders and Levers 
 Project: Moving Celebration card | Food Preparing fruit and vegetables Project: Fruit salad | Food Preparing fruit and vegetables Project: Crudité platter and hummus | Structures Freestanding structures Project: structure (prop) from story book | Structures Freestanding structures Project: Bridges | 
| Music | My Musical Heartbeat How can we make friends when we sing together? 
 | Dance, Sing and Play How does music tell stories about the past? 
 | Exploring Sounds How Does Music Make the world a Better Place? | Learning to Listen How does Music Help us to Understand our Neighbours? | Having fun with Improvisation What Songs Can We Sing to Get Us Through the Day? | Let’s Perform Together Learning to play the Glockenspiel and read musical notation | 
| Art | Drawing Mark making with range of materials - Joan Miro Make own tools Create and use different surface Make controlled drawing Use imagination to draw Patrick Caulfield | Painting Use of thick/thin paint Brush strokes - Frank Auerbach Respond to stories using colour Responding to artists work - Jasper Johns 
 
 | Printmaking Direct printmaking Negative stencils layered printed image Clay slab relief Collagraph block Henri Matisse 
 | Collage Tear, overlap, stick Identify hot/cold colours Contrasting materials Patrick Heron Andy Goldsworthy Richard Long | Textiles Investigate weaving Embellish fabric Fabric resist technique Wrapping and knotting technique Terri Friedman Julia Bland | 3-D/Sculpture Pattern and line Working with clay Use a story as starting point Clay balls and coils Plaster cast mould Andy Goldsworthy Richard Long | 
| PSHE/ safeguarding 
 | Physical & Mental Health | Keeping Safe | Relationships: Friends & Family | Respectful & safe Relationships | Living in the Wider World: Financial Literacy | Health & Wellbeing: Ourselves- Growing & Changing | 
| RE | What does it mean to belong to a faith community? | Who is a Christian and what do they believe? (part 1) 
 
 | Who is a Muslim and what do they believe? (part 1) | How and why do we celebrate special and sacred times? (Part 1) | What makes some places sacred? 
 | What makes some places sacred? 
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| PE | Introduction to Invasion Games 
 | Introduction to Invasion Games | Gymnastics | Athletics | Cricket | Tennis | 
| Educational Visits | Local Park Geography | Local Christian Church RE | Using Transport (bus, tube, train) PSHE | Young V&A Hero Arm workshop STEM | British Library English | National Portrait Gallery Art/History | 
