Year 1
Meet the Team
Mrs Mohammed
Date Class Teacher
Mrs Mortimer
Elm Class Teacher
Mr Roberts
Fig Class Teacher
Yearly Curriculum Overview
Year 1 Curriculum 2023-2024.pdfDate Class.pptxElm Class.pptxFig Class.pptxHomework in Year 1
Autumn 1: Toys
Date curriculum letter
Year 1 -Date Curriculum Letter Autumn 1.pdfElm curriculum letter
Year 1 -Elm Curriculum Letter Autumn 1.pdfFig curriculum letter
Year 1 -Fig Curriculum Letter Autumn 1.pdfSummer 2: Memory Box
Year 1 -Date Curriculum Letter Summer 2.pdfDate curriculum letter
Year 1 -Elm Curriculum Letter Summer 2.pdfElm curriculum letter
Year 1 -Fig Curriculum Letter Summer 2.pdfFig curriculum letter
Launch day- 03.06.2024
Year 1 launched their new geography topic, "Where does my family come from?", with a half-term project involving memory boxes. Each student presented their memory box, sharing their family's history and origins, which fostered a sense of community and curiosity about global diversity. Building on these personal stories, students learned about the organisation of the world into countries, continents, and oceans. They identified and located all seven continents and the five major oceans through interactive activities, such as map labelling, games, and art projects. This approach connected personal histories with geographic education, enhancing students' understanding of the world and its diverse cultures.
Summer 1: Out of this World!
Year 1 -Date Curriculum Letter Summer 1.pdfDate curriculum letter
Year 1 -Elm Curriculum Letter Summer 1.pdfElm curriculum letter
Year 1 -Fig Curriculum Letter Summer.pdfFig curriculum letter
Launch day- 16.04.2024
We launched our new topic for this term, based around the historical events that lead up to the 1969 Moon Landings. Firstly the children were given the opportunity to show the rest of the class what they had created for their homework projects. We had some amazing pieces, ranging from models of our solar system, planets, sun and moons; models of different types of spacecraft and fact files. Congratulations to everybody who made something, picking winners this half term will be very hard.
During a break in our learning about The Space Race, we also took the opportunity to paint pictures of our Moon surrounded by a sky full of stars. Our final practical project evolved from discussions about how to stay alive during space travel and how we would need to be protected as we landed on different planets. Groups of children designed and made model space capsules to protect astronauts (or in our case, chocolate teacakes) as they touched down on a new planet or moon.
Spring 2: Weather Warriors
Year 1 -Date Curriculum Letter Spring 2.pdfDate curriculum letter
Year 1 -Elm Curriculum Letter Spring 2.pdfElm curriculum letter
Year 1 -Fig Curriculum Letter Spring 2.pdfFig curriculum letter
Launch day- 19.02.2024
Year 1 has started the new topic, “Weather Warriors.” We started by sharing our weather based homework projects before learning about what weather we would expect based on the season and climate.
We made and tested wind decorations; learned about adverse weather and how this has impacted the UK over the last century before planning and conducting our own weather forecasts.
Spring 1: The Monarchy
Year 1 -Date Curriculum Letter Spring .pdfDate curriculum letter
Year 1 -Elm Curriculum Letter Spring.pdfElm curriculum letter
Year 1 -Fig Curriculum Letter Spring.pdfFig curriculum letter
Launch day- 10.01.24
Year 1 were very excited to show their classmates the wonderful projects that they had been working on over the Christmas break; they were all amazing, a few passed all expectations! We were then given the opportunity to improve our observation, comparison and recall skills as we learned about and compared three of the most famous queens from history, Queen Victoria, Queen Elizabeth II and Queen Nefertiti from Ancient Egypt. After drawing a portrait of the queen we found the most interesting, we then used our history skills to delve into Queen Elizabeth II’s life a little more. We re-enacted key moments from her life including her coronation and wedding. Now that we have King Charles III as our monarch, we compared his life with what we had already learned earlier in the day about other royals. Our final activity was to create a piece of artwork that would help us to remember Queen Elizabth II.
Autumn 2: Our Remarkable School
Year 1 -Date Curriculum Letter Autumn 2.pdfDate curriculum letter
Year 1 -Elm Curriculum Letter Autumn 2.pdfElm curriculum letter
Year 1 -Fig Curriculum Letter Autumn 2.pdfFig curriculum letter
Launch day- 30.10.23
Year 1’s new topic is Our Remarkable School, where is it and what is it like? During launch day, the children presented their homework projects based on maps and models of places they live, have visited or created from their imaginations. We then learned about some basic map and compass skills while studying a map of our local area and Wood Green. This let us use a map to explore Wood Green and find buildings and roads we had been looking at. We were amazing and didn’t get lost.
Finally we learned a little about The United Kingdom and made a much larger map which we labelled with some pictures of our favourite landmarks in England, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales.
Autumn 1: Toys
Year 1 -Date Curriculum Letter Autumn 1 (1).pdfDate curriculum letter
Year 1 -Elm Curriculum Letter Autumn 1.pdfElm curriculum letter
Year 1 -Fig Curriculum Letter Autumn 1.pdfFig curriculum letter
Launch day- 9.06.23
Year 1 will be studying the history of toys and how and why these have changed so much over time. As part of our topic launch, we shared our homework projects with the rest of our class before making a display of them. Some of us also shared interviews we conducted with our grandparents and parents discussing the toys that they used. We were able to handle some old toys and start to work out how to play with them. Next we started to make riddles about the toys so the rest of the class could guess which one we were thinking about. Finally we coloured pictures and completed cutting and sticking toy posters.
Launch day- 5.06.23
Year 1 launched their new geography topic, Continents and Oceans, by looking at our half term projects which were memory boxes. Each child had the opportunity to talk about their family history and where their family originates from. They then used this information to make more sense of the world and how it is organised into countries, continents and oceans. Through a number of activities we were able to learn the names and locations of all seven continents and the five oceans.
