St Francis Primary School - Half-Termly Overviews

Curriculum Overview for Summer Term2 : Year 1


Second Half of Summer Term 2011    Year 1

Teachers: Mrs Kelly, Mrs Martin, Mrs Greenham, Mrs Dicker, Mrs Buse & Mr Light
Teaching Assistants: Mrs Sims & Mrs Weavind

This is an overview of the work we will be covering this half term.

English 
Consolidate understanding of what a sentence is and how to use full stops, capital letters, question marks and connectives.
Read and composing poems on the theme of animals.
Fantasy stories - using story language to create their own fantasy story settings 
Follow instructions and write own instructions.
Learn about the features of recounts then writing their own recounts of a school trip.
Drama - Creating still pictures and mimes from the story ‘Percy the Park Keeper’.

Mathematics

This half term the whole school Maths Targets are based on Division.
The Year 1 targets are displayed in the classroom.
Securing number facts, relationships and calculating
Solve problems involving counting, adding, subtracting, doubling or halving in the context of numbers, measures or money, for example to ‘pay’ and ‘give change’ 
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 and a multiple of 10 from a two-digit number
Calculating, measuring and understanding shape:
Describe simple patterns and relationships involving numbers or shapes; decide whether examples satisfy given conditions.
Use vocabulary related to time; order days of the week and months; read the time to the hour and half hour
Handling Data and Measure:
Estimate, measure, weigh and compare objects
Use vocabulary related to time; order days of the week and months; read the time to the hour and half hour
Answer a question by recording information in lists and tables; present outcomes using practical resources, pictures, block graphs or pictograms

Science
Plants and animals in the local environment –     
How animals have adapted to suit their environment. Contrasting local habitats –
 Planting and growing seeds 

Other areas of the Curriculum
Geography: A study of the local area around the school.  
ICT:             Logo and Control Bee-Bot.
                    Exchanging and sharing information using sound.     
Art:             Paper and paste mini-beasts.
DT:             Visiting a local play park then designing and making a playground ride.
RE:             Celebrations - Weddings
PE:             Gym – Rocking and Rolling  Games -Team Games             
                  Dance –Playing with a Ball           
PHSE:         Looking forward to Y2 and new beginnings.
Music:        Timbre, tempo and dynamics

Other things we would like to let you know about
June 21st       Hawthorns Trip to Southampton (Science)
June 29th     KS1 Sports Day – 1.30 pm
July 1st           1FK/SM Class Assembly                       
July 5th            Street Dance Workshop(Eastleigh Dance Festival Week)
July 21st        Year 1 Wedding in the Church (RE)

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