Year One - Term One

The student should be able to:          

Objective

Literacy

Word Level Work

• Practice and secure the ability to rhyme, and to relate this to spelling patterns
• Practice and secure alphabetic letter knowledge and alphabetic order
• Hear the initial and final sounds (phonemes) in CVC (constant, vowel, constant) words e.g. cat, fit
• Blend sounds (phonemes) to read CVC words
• Begin to represent in writing the 3 sounds (phonemes) in CVC words
• Develop a comfortable and efficient pencil grip
• Form lower case letters correctly
• Read on sight 30 high frequency words
• Sentence Level Work
• Expect written text to make sense and to check if it does not.
• Write captions and simple sentences/words
• Recognise full stops and capital letters when reading, and name them correctly
• Begin using full stops to demarcate sentences
• Use a capital letter for the personal pronoun ‘I’ and for the start of a sentence

Text level Work

• Notice the difference between spoken and written forms through re-telling known stories
• Begin to read simple stories and poems independently
• Describe story settings and incidents and relate them to own experience and that of others
• Recite stories and rhymes with predictable and repeating patterns
• Write about events in personal experience
• Make simple picture storybooks with sentences
• Follow and read simple instructions
• Make simple lists    

Mathematics

Number Work

• Recite the number names to 20 and back
• Read and write the numerals to 10
• Order the numbers from 1 to 10
• Add 2 numbers, starting with the largest and counting on.
• Recognise that 3 numbers can be added 
• Subtract from a number of objects by taking away
• Measure, Shape and Data Handling Wor
• Compare the length and height of 2 objects
• Measure length and height using non-standard units
• Name 2D shapes; Triangle, Circle, Rectangle, Square
• Sort 2D shapes according to their properties

Science

Ourselves

• Name and identify parts of the body
• Name the 5 senses
• Know that there are differences between humans
• Recognise the changes that occur as they get older
• Know that animals, including humans are living

Geography

Local Environment

• Construct a simple map of our classroom
• Know that all pupils have a personal address
• Identify the different ways in which people travel to school
• Recognise and identify the physical and human features of a familiar locality
• Express views on the features in the environment

Design & Technology

Food – Eat More Fruit and Vegetables

• Recognise and name different fruits and vegetables
• Carry out basic hygiene when handling foods e.g. washing their hands
• Use different hand tools and hand processing skills to cut, squeeze, peel, grate and wash foods
• Know that fruit and vegetables are an important part of our diet.
• Know that food processing can affect appearance, texture, odour and taste
• Produce a fruit or vegetable dish

ICT

Using a word bank

• Identify the different parts of the computer.
• Know that text can be entered into a computer and printed out
• Know that information can be presented in a variety of forms
• Know that sounds convey information
• Know that computers use icons to provide information and instructions

Art

Self-Portraits

• Learn to mix colours
• Draw themselves from photos or through observations
• Paint their self portrait and display their work

Personal, Social and Health Education (PSHE)

Healthy lifestyles

• Know what healthy eating means
• Know what keeps people healthy
• Understand what makes a healthy day
• Make simple choices to improve their health and well being

Spanish

La Descripción

• Discriminará auditivamente el fonema inicial de una palabra
• Describirá en forma oral imágenes y situaciones dadas
• Expresará en grupo sus ideas y sentimientos
• Manejará adecuadamente el lápiz para escribir letras dentro de un espacio determinado

Physical Education (PE)

Habilidades Físicas Básicas

• Cultivar la habilidad para realizar movimientos naturales y armónicos y desarrollar el buen dominio y seguridad en los mismos

Music

Learning Traditional Songs

• Learn three beat rhythmic patterns
• Learn the National anthems

Year One - Term Two

The student should be able to:

Objective

Literacy

Word Level Work:

• Investigate, read and spell words ending in: ff, ll, ss, ck, ng
• Discriminate, read and spell words with initial consonant clusters e.g. bl, cr, str, etc…
• Segment clusters into sounds for spelling
• Use handwriting in conjunction with spelling and independent writing to ensure correct letter orientation

Sentence Level Work

• Predict words from preceding words in sentences and investigate the sorts of words that ‘fit’

• Use the term ‘sentence’ appropriately to identify sentences in text

• Continue writing sentences, ending with a full stopUse capital letters for names and for the start of a sentence

Text level Work

• Choose and read familiar books with concentration and attention, discuss preferences and give reasons why

• Re-tell stories, giving the main points in sequence
• Discuss reasons for, or causes of, incidents in stories
• Build simple profiles of characters from stories   
• Use term ‘fiction’ and ‘non-fiction’
• Write simple questions
• Use simple dictionaries
• Read non-fiction books and understand that the reader does not have to go from start to finish

 Mathematics

Number Work

• Read and write the numerals to 20
• Understand subtraction as counting back
• Begin to recognise the ten and ones in a teen number
• Add 10 to a 1 digit number
• Begin to partition numbers beyond 20 into tens and ones
• Begin to recognise the double of numbers up to 10
• Add pairs of near doubles using known doubles
• Shape, Space & Measure Work
• Read the time to the hour on analogue clock
• Read the time to the half hour
• Use the vocabulary of time
• Begin to sort objects using Venn diagrams for two distinct categories

Science

Plants

• Treat growing plants with care
• Learn that plants have leaves, stems and flowers
• Know that plants provide food for humans
• Conclude that plants need water and sun to grow 

History

Homes

• Know that people live in different sorts of homes
• Identify the key features of a home built a long time ago
• Recognise different rooms and household objects from a long time ago.
• Identify differences between two homes built at different times

Design & Technology

Homes

• Identify that we live in many different types of homes
• Experiment with basic joining techniques eg glue
• Produce simple hinges

• Evaluate their finished product

ICT

Labelling and Classifying

• Know that data can be collected and presented as pictograms
• Use ICT to classify information and present findings

Art

Investigating Materials

• Investigate the possibilities of using a range of materials
• Investigate using paint on the different materials
• Maximize the use of resources and materials
• Use recycled materials and re-use objects 

Personal, Social and Health Education (PSHE)

Citizenship

• Recognise how their behaviour affects others
• Listen to others and play and work cooperatively
• Identify and respect similarities and differences
• Recognise how our behaviour affects others

Spanish

Imágenes y Gráficos

• Realizará correspondencia de palabras que comienzan igual.
• Construirá oraciones sencillas y con sentido en forma oral utilizando el vocabulario visto
• Demostrará mayor habilidad para integrar correctamente los fonemas vistos en la lectura y escritura de palabras
•  Interpretará libremente un texto con la ayuda de gráficos
• Escuchará con atención y responderá ante el grupo preguntas respecto a lecturas realizadas en clase

Physical Education

Habilidades Gimnásticas

• Crear condiciones para determinar el progreso de las cualidades físicas del alumno a través del alcance y superación de marcas durante las actividades de la clase

Music

Drawing eighth and quarter notes

• Play and sing “call and response” games and songs
• Learn four beat rhythmic patterns

Year One - Term Three

 The student should be able to:                     

Objective

Literacy

Word Level Work

• Investigate, read and spell words ending in: ed ck, ing
• Investigate words with –s for plurals
• Learn the terms vowel and consonant
• Discriminate, read and spell words with initial consonant clusters e.g. bl, cr, str, etc…
• Segment clusters into sounds for spelling
• Use handwriting in conjunction with spelling and independent writing to ensure correct letter orientation

 Sentence Level Work

• Predict words from preceding words in sentences and investigate the sorts of words that ‘fit’
• Use the term ‘sentence’ appropriately to identify sentences in text
• Continue writing sentences, ending with a full stop
• Use capital letters for the personal pronoun ‘I’, for names and for the start of a sentence.

 Text level Work

• Choose and read familiar books with concentration and attention, discuss preferences and give reasons why
• Re-tell stories, giving the main points in sequence
• Learn and recite simple poems and rhymes, and to re-read them from the text.
• Discuss reasons for, or causes of, incidents in stories
• Build simple profiles of characters from stories
• Use term ‘fiction’ and ‘non-fiction’
• Write simple questions
• Identify simple questions and use text to find answers.

Mathematics

Number Work

• Begin to count in 2’s. 5’s and 10’s
• Recognise addition pairs for numbers up to 10
• Use addition pairs to derive subtraction facts
• Begin to recognise odd & even numbers
• Recognise the ordinal numbers up to 10, 1st, 2nd etc
• Shape, Space & Measure Work
• Begin to construct a block graph
• Begin to interpret a block graph
• Measure weight using non-standard units.
• Use the vocabulary associated with weight
• Compare the weights of 2 or 3 objects using a balance

Science

Sorting and using materials

• Name some common materials
• Describe common materials e.g. bendy, rough etc.
• Identify which materials objects are made from
• Suggest how to test for waterproof materials
• Light & Dark
• Be able to name a number of light sources
• Recognise that they cannot see in the dark
• Know that it is dangerous to look at the sun
• Know that sources of light show up best at night-time
• Know that the sun is the source of light for the Earth

History

Toys

• Use appropriate vocabulary to describe artefacts from the past
• Describe the characteristics of old and new toys
• Identify similarities and differences between old and new toys
• Sort objects in different ways
• Sequence objects on a time line

Design & Technology

Playgrounds

• Identify how materials have been used in a playground
• Assemble, join and combine materials and components together using a variety of temporary methods
• Make a range of models which reflect their ideas

ICT

Making things happen

• Begin to understand that machines can be controlled
• Understand that different sequence of events affect different outcomes.

Art

What is Sculpture?

• Recognise different kinds of sculptures
• Observe, explore and record sculpture ideas
• Practice and experiment with different materials for making sculptures

Personal, Social and Health Education (PSHE)

Citizenship

• Recognise what they like and dislike, what is fair and unfair and what is right and wrong
• Agree to follow rules and to understand how rules help them
• Know that they belong to various groups and communities e.g. family and school

Spanish

Poesía, Rimas y Trabalenguas

• Identificará y escribirá consonantes iniciales, intermedias y finales de palabras.
• Demostrará mayor seguridad y agilidad para escribir.
• Mejorará su comprensión lectora relacionando personajes y situaciones en un texto corto.
• Expresará con mayor fluidez y seguridad sus opiniones y sentimientos.
• Disfrutará el aspecto lúdico de las palabras en la memorización de poesías, rimas y trabalenguas.

Physical Education

Habilidades Lúdicas

• Fortalecer la imaginación y despertar en los alumnos la necesidad de inventar ejercicios compuestos de elementos conocidos. 

Music

Drawing the treble clef

• Learn how to follow the shape of a melody
• Clap rhythmic patterns
• Develop basic rhythmic dictation
• Act and sing “fairy tales”

Year One - Term Four

The student should be able to:

Objective

Literacy

Word Level Work

• Begin to recognise and use the common spelling patterns for each of the long vowel phonemes: ee, ai, ie, oa, oo
• Read on sight high frequency words
• Recognise words by common spelling patterns
• Use the terms “vowel” and “consonant”
• Practice handwriting in conjunction with spelling and independent writing
• Discriminate and segment all 3 phonemes of CVC words
• Investigate and learn spellings of verbs with –ed and –ing

Sentence Level Work

• Expect reading to make sense and check if it does not
• Read familiar texts aloud with pace and expression
• Develop capitalisation, e.g. for personal tiles, headings, book titles and emphasis
• Add question marks to questions
• Recognise and use full stops and capital letters

Text level Work

• Write stories using simple settings
• Use poems or parts of poems as models for own writing
• Read a variety of poems on similar themes
• Compose own poetic sentences, using repetitive patterns, carefully selected sentences and imagery
• Write simple recounts linked to topics of interest or to personal experience
• Use the language and features of non-fiction texts
• Compare and contrast stories with a  variety of settings e.g. imaginary lands, homes

Mathematics

Number Work

• Begin to add 10 to a 1 digit number
• Learn and use the concept of 1 more or 1 less or 10 more or 10 less
• Know addition pairs which total 10
• Recognise doubles and near doubles
• Recognise odd and even numbers
• Order a set of numbers
• Subtract 10 from a ‘teen’ number
• Count in 2’s. 5’s and 10’s
• Rehearse the partition of numbers into 10s and 1s

Shape, Space & Measure Work

• Compare capacities of two containers
• Begin to use the vocabulary of capacity
• Recognise and use the language of position
• Create symmetrical patterns
• Begin to interpret simple tables

Science

Pushes and Pulls

• Recognise that there are many sorts of movement which can be described in many different ways
• Describe different ways of moving
• Know the difference between pushes and pulls
• Recognise hazards and risks to themselves in moving objects
• Sound and Hearing
• Recognise that there are many different sources of sound
• Explore sounds using their sense of hearing
• Understand that there are many different ways of making sounds
• Explore sounds using the senses    

Geography

Where in the world is Barnaby Bear?

• Find a place on a map
• Recognise the features of different places
• Identify types of weather and seasonal changes
• Discuss planning and preparation for a range of journeys

Design & Technology

Moving Pictures

• Know that simple levers and sliding mechanisms can be used to create movement
• Use a range of tools safely
• Make a first model and then evaluate their products  

ICT

Modelling

• Recognise that computers can represent real or fantasy situations
• Create a representation of a real or fantasy situation

Art

Personal Project

• To make a proposal and initial design for a personal project 
• To explore qualities of known materials and select appropriate ones to develop project 
• To produce final 3-D or 2-D piece based on their original idea. 

Personal, Social and Health Education (PSHE)

Relationships

• Explore some of the different values such as: kindness, and helpfulness
• Listen to others opinions
• Know that there are different types of bullying and that bullying is wrong
• Follow instructions
• Be aware of other’s feelings and act with consideration

Spanish

Narraciones

• Realizará escritura alfabética de palabras y oraciones.
• Leerá historietas y narraciones cortas.
• Comentará ante el grupo sus opiniones respecto a temas o lecturas.
• Manejará adecuadamente los trazos de las letras minúsculas y mayúsculas.

Physical Education

Habilidades Reglamentadas y Estructuradas

• Crear condiciones para determinar el progreso de las cualidades físicas del alumno a través del alcance y superación de marcas durante las actividades de la clase.

Music

Preparing for the Graduation Ceremony

• Draw the treble clef
• Listen to classical music
• Develop and use basic rhythmic dictation