KS1

Autumn Term Focus - Observation 

Looking at nature in detail, investigating the natural world

Spring Term Focus - Participation 

Being involved in caring for the environment and looking after the natural world

Year 1 - making toilet roll bird feeders to help the birds during the autumn and winter months.

Year 2 - Surveying the different types of materials and their uses within the garden.  Were they natural or man-made?

National Curriculum links

Maths (measurement & statistics)

• interpret and construct simple pictograms, tally charts, block diagrams and simple tables  

• ask and answer simple questions by counting the number of objects in each category and sorting the categories by quantity  

• ask and answer questions about totalling and comparing categorical data.

• choose and use appropriate standard units to estimate and measure length/height in any direction (m/cm); mass (kg/g); temperature (°C); capacity (litres/ml) to the nearest appropriate unit, using rulers, scales, thermometers and measuring vessels

Geography

• Pupils should develop knowledge about the world, the United Kingdom and their locality.  They should understand basic subject-specific vocabulary relating to human and physical geography and begin to use geographical skills, including first-hand observation, to enhance their locational awareness.

• identify seasonal and daily weather patterns in the United Kingdom and

• use simple fieldwork and observational skills to study the geography of their school and its grounds and the key human and physical features of its surrounding environment.

Science 

(Y1 -  Plants, animals inc. humans, everyday materials, seasonal changes)

(Y2 - Living things and their habitats, plants, animals inc. habitats, uses of everyday materials)

• to enable pupils to experience and observe phenomena, looking more closely at the natural and humanly-constructed world around them.  They should be helped to develop their understanding of scientific ideas by using different types of scientific enquiry to answer their own questions, including observing changes over a period of time, noticing patterns, grouping and classifying things, carrying out simple comparative tests, and finding things out using secondary sources of information.

• Use the following practical scientific methods, processes and skills through the teaching of the programme of study content:

•  asking simple questions and recognising that they can be answered in different ways

•  observing closely, using simple equipment

•  performing simple tests

•  identifying and classifying

•  using their observations and ideas to suggest answers to questions

•  gathering and recording data to help in answering questions.

Art/design 

• to use a range of materials creatively to design and make products

• to develop a wide range of art and design techniques in using colour, pattern, texture, line, shape, form and space

History

• changes within living memory. Where appropriate, these should be used to reveal aspects of change in national life

•  events beyond living memory that are significant nationally or globally