OHS: Form 1 Curriculum Overview

Form 1: Curriculum Overview

English

• To read Common Exception words.

• To read the First 100 High Frequency words.

• To read simple CVC, CVCC and CVCC words.

• To learn and review set 1 and set 2 phonics sounds.

• To leave spaces between words.

• To use the cursive script.

• To write a sentence with a capital letter and a full stop.

• To use conjunctions.

• To use adjectives.

Next Steps

Ideas for Home

• Read classic fairy tales out loud to your toys, as if you are putting on a show.

• Discover information books and read out loud with an adult.

• Discuss stories with an adult and ask questions.

• Draw a picture from your favourite character from the story.

History

• To develop an understanding of chronology and a sense of time, by identifying and describing similarities and differences between their childhood, and that of their grandparents.

• Comparisons will be made between toys, homes, shops, and schools of the 1950s and 1960s and the present day.

• Children will use role play to demonstrate an understanding of school life, in the era of their grandparents.

Next Steps

To know and understand where people and events fit within a chronological framework.

Geography

• To describe the places that we go often and rarely, and what we see on the way to school.

• To understand what is near to school, far away from school and to gain a sense of place.

• To use and understand a simple plan of the classroom.

• To understand and use a local area map.

• To identify the destination of our field trip and recall the journey to get there.

• To be able to remember a local journey and the stages in order.

Next Steps

Walk around their local area describing what is around them, near to them, and far away.

• Visit the Museum of Childhood or another toy museum.

• Use the internet to research how and why toys have changed.

• Interview a grown-up about the toys they played with as a child.

• Investigate and make a toy e.g., cup and ball.

• Find different ways to sort your games and toys.

• To imagine you are a child in the olden days and write about what you would play with.

Ideas for Home Ideas for Home

• To design a 3D model of the classroom.

• To draw their own map and include a key.

• To design a map and show directions to a physical feature within their local area.

To buy a local map and navigate their way to a physical feature within that local area.

To write about their most recent field trip.

Maths

Place Value

• Count objects from a larger group.

• Represent objects.

• Recognise numbers as words.

• Count on from any number.

• Less than, greater than, equal to.

• Compare numbers.

• Order objects and numbers.

• The number line.

Addition and Subtraction

• Part-whole model.

• Write number-sentences.

• Fact families - addition facts.

• Number bonds within 10.

• Addition problems.

• Subtraction problems.

• Subtraction on a number line.

Geometry: Shape

• Recognise and name 2-D and 3-D shapes.

• Sort 2-D and 3-D shapes.

• Patterns with 2-D and 3-D shapes.

Ideas for Home

• Count out loud using a number line.

• Count out loud using a number square.

• Line up your toys and count them out loud.

• Make a pattern using counters or toys.

• Measure objects using cubes.

Next Steps

Write numbers up to 20 using colour pencils.

Draw and create a pattern using colour pencils.

Draw 2-D shapes using chalk.

Make 2-digit numbers using the dienes.

Add and subtract numbers using counters.

Science

• To understand what animals need in order to grow.

• To know where birds live and what they need to survive.

• To identify a variety of animals, including fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals.

• To identify a variety of common animals that are carnivores, herbivores, and omnivores.

• To learn about the 5 senses.

• To identify the basic parts of the human body.

• To learn about changes in your body since you were a baby.

• To understand the importance of taking care of your body.

Next Steps

Look

Draw

Ideas for Home

• Children to make a body using different materials and label the body parts.

• Go on a walk and see what different animals you can find and put them into their correct animal group.

• Make a list of the foods you have eaten during the day and put them into the correct food group.

• Take a walk to your nearest pond and make a list of the different plants and species you can find.

Make

• To learn about colour and use colour to represent different emotions in my artwork, inspired by “The Colour Monster book”.

• To improve drawing skills on line and texture.

• To learn about the colour wheel and primary and secondary colours.

• To learn and create wet on wet watercolour techniques.

• Seasonal crafts and artwork / Christmas card project - Children will create a piece of artwork for the annual Christmas card fundraiser.

Religious Studies

• To make a creation.

• To understand how Christians believe the world was created.

• To understand what happened on each day of the creation story.

• To understand how God wants Christians to look after the world.

• To know what a celebration is and how it makes us feel.

• To understand the meaning of Hanukkah.

• To understand and sequence the Christmas story.

• To understand different faiths such as Christianity, Judaism, Sikhism, Buddhism.

To use a variety of texts to explore conventions and learning conventions in drama:

Art/Design Technology Drama Music

• role play

• improvisation

• mime

• working collaboratively

• use of the voice

MFL

French

To be exposed to simple French phrases, seasonal and cultural vocabulary through songs, games, and story books.

• Paris landmarks.

• Greetings.

• Days of the week.

• Fruits.

• Seasons.

• Colours.

Exploring pulse and rhythm

• Music games exploring pulse and rhythm.

• Music and movement: responding to tempo changes in movement.

• Composition work on untuned percussion with emphasis on steady beat.

• Link to western notation.

KS1 Christmas Celebration

• Learning songs to perform together for the Christmas concert.

• Focus on clear words and confident pitching.

Computing PE/Games

Creating media - digital painting.

• Pupils develop their understanding of a range of tools used for digital painting. They then use these tools to create their own digital paintings, while gaining inspiration from a range of artists’ work.

Programming - moving a robot.

• Pupils will explore using individual commands, both with other learners and as part of a computer program.

• They will identify what each floor robot command does and use that knowledge to start predicting the outcome of programs.

• Pupils will also be introduced to the early stages of program design through the introduction of algorithms.

PSHCEE

• Orchard House School Values.

• To understand the rights and responsibilities as a member of the class.

• To understand that everybody has different views.

• To celebrate and accept that people are different.

• To learn about inclusion.

• To understand the term ‘bullying’ and to know whow to help if somebody is being bullied.

• To use kindness as a way of making new friends.

Games for Understanding:

• Each week children will learn the fundamentals of a variety of different sports.

• Ball skills in different sports, including using feet and hands.

• Learning the difference between attacking and defending principles.

• Tactical awareness and game play.

Health Related Fitness

• What does my body feel like when I exercise -physiological changes?

• Why is exercise important?

Range of activities to focus on:

• cardiovascular endurance

• speed

• agility

• balance

• coordination

• competition

Games

Netball:

• Practise hand eye coordination skills through catching and throwing with soft balls.

• Introduction to roles of attacking and defending.

• Understand how to shoot in a simplified game.

• To be able to play small-sided games.

• To be able to move and pass to another team mat.

Football:

• To practise ball mastery skills, including dribbling, kicking, stopping and shooting.

• To be able to show this in small-sided games.

• Introduction to attacking and defending in football.

• Practise shooting.

• Play a small-sided game and understand basic rules.