Year One - Term One

The student should be able to:          

Objective

Literacy

Reading

• Hear the initial and final sounds (phonemes) in CVC (constant, vowel, constant) words e.g. cat, fit.
• Begin to read simple stories and poems independently.
• Recognise full stops and capital letters when reading, and name them correctly.

Word Level Work

• Practice and secure alphabetic letter knowledge and alphabetic order.
• Begin to represent in writing the 3 sounds (phonemes) in CVC words.
• Develop a comfortable and efficient pencil grip.
• Form half of the lower case letters correctly.

Sentence Level Work

• Write captions and simple sentences/words.
• Begin using full stops to demarcate sentences.

Text Level Work

• Describe story settings and incidents and relate them to own experience and that of others.
• Write about events in personal experience.
• Make simple picture storybooks with sentences.
• Follow simple instructions.
• Make simple lists.

Mathematics

Counting, partitioning and calculating

• Count reliably at least 20 objects, recognising that when rearranged the number of objects stays the same.
• Read and write numerals from 0 to 20.
• Say the number that is 1 more or less than any given number.

Securing number facts, understanding shapes

• Derive and recall all addition facts for totals to at least 5.
• Visualise and name common 2-D shapes and describe their features; use them to make patterns, pictures and models.

Handling data and measures

• Estimate, measure, weigh and compare objects, choosing and using suitable uniform non-standard or standard units and measuring instruments (e.g. a lever balance, metre stick or measuring jug).
• Answer a question by recording information in lists and tables; present outcomes using practical resources, pictures, block graphs or pictograms.

Securing number facts, calculating, identifying relationships

• Use the vocabulary related to addition and subtraction and symbols to describe and record addition and subtraction number sentences.
• Recall doubles of all numbers to at least 10.

Science

Knowing about ourselves

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

Geography

Understanding the 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.

Design & Technology

Knowing about 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

Exploring and developing ideas

• Develop ideas about their feelings and desires.
• Record from their experience and imagination in order to communicate ideas about themselves.

Investigating and making art, craft and design

• Make self-portraits using several techniques.
• Learn how to mix and use colour in a painting.

Personal, Social and Health Education (PSHE)

Knowing about 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

Sentence Level Work

• Predict words from preceding words in sentences and investigate the sorts of words that ‘fit’
• Continue writing sentences, ending with a full stop
• Use capital letters for names and for the start of a sentence

Text Level Work

• 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’

Mathematics

Counting, partitioning and calculating

• Relate addition to counting on; recognise that addition can be done in any order
• Understand subtraction as 'take away' and find a 'difference' by counting up
• Compare and order numbers, using the related vocabulary; use the equals (=) sign

Calculating, measuring and understanding shape

• Compare objects using relevant vocabulary, taller, heavier.
• Use suitable uniform non-standard or standard units and measuring instruments.
• Name the days of the week.
• Tell the time to the hour.

Securing number facts, understanding shapes

• Derive and recall all pairs of numbers with a total of 10 and addition facts for totals to at least 5
• Recall the doubles of all numbers to at least 10

Securing number facts, calculating, identifying relationships

• Count on or back in ones, fives and tens

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.

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 can be used to create movement.
• Use a range of tools safely.
• Make a first model and evaluate their products.

ICT

Labelling and Classifying

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

Art

Exploring and developing ideas

• Explore line, shape, colour and texture in natural forms
• Make thoughtful observations and develop creative ideas

Investigating and making art, craft and design

• Use several techniques to express ideas and feelings about natural environments 
• Practise painting skills uncluding mixing colours

Personal, Social and Health Education (PSHE)

Citizenship

• Recognise how  behaviour affects others
• Listen to others and play and work cooperatively
• Identify and respect similarities and differences
• Understand that people have different beliefs
• Know some of the special events celebrated at Divali

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 (PE)

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
• Investigate, read and spell the reception high frequency words.
• Segment clusters into sounds for spelling using syllables
• Use handwriting 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

• Select books for personal reading, giving reasons for their choice.
• Re-tell stories, giving the main points in sequence
• Build simple profiles of characters from stories
• Use term ‘fiction’ and ‘non-fiction’
• Write simple questions
• Follow and write simple instructions

Mathematics

Handling data and measures

• Estimate, measure, weigh and compare objects, choosing and using suitable uniform non-standard or standard units and measuring instruments (e.g. a lever balance, metre stick or measuring jug)
• Answer a question by recording information in lists and tables; present outcomes using practical resources, pictures, block graphs or pictograms

Calculating, measuring and understanding shape

• Use vocabulary related to time; order days of the week and months; read the time to the hour and half hour
• Identify objects that turn about a point (e.g. scissors) or about a line (e.g. a door); recognise and make whole, half and quarter turn

Securing number facts, understanding shapes

• Relate addition to counting on; recognise that addition can be done in any order; use practical and informal written methods to support the addition of a one-digit number  to a one-digit or two-digit number
• Understand subtraction as 'take away' and find a 'difference' by counting up; use practical and informal written methods to support the subtraction of a one-digit number from a one-digit or two-digit number
• Use the vocabulary related to addition and subtraction and symbols to describe and record addition and subtraction number sentences

Securing number facts, calculating, identifying relationships

• Use the vocabulary of halves and quarters in context

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

History

Toys

• Use appropriate vocabulary to describe artifacts 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 and join components together using a variety of temporary methods
• Make a range of models that 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

Exploring and Developing Ideas

• Explore the work of important sculptors, understanding the basic characteristics of a tri-dimensional piece
• Interpret and create own versions of relevant sculptures in the history of art.

Investigating and Making Art, Craft and Design

• Investigate about new materials and use them in a creative way
• Find new approaches to the use of recycled materials.

Personal, Social and Health Education (PSHE)

Going for goals and relationships

• Recognise, name and deal with feelings in a positive way.

• Think about themselves, learn from experience and know what they are good at.

• Know how to set simple goals.

• To  know the difference between- like/dislike; fair/unfair; right/wrong.

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