Year 1 - Lindisfarne

Autumn 1

  

In Design and Technology we will be designing and making our own pet homes for an animal of our choice.

In Geography we will be exploring maps and using a compass to give and follow directions using directional language such as north, south, east and west.

In Literacy we will be looking at animal stories, such as Polar Bear, Polar Bear and Dear Zoo. We will create story maps to retell these, as well as writing our own versions!

 

​​​​​​During Autumn 2 we will be exploring our local area of Belper. We will be learning about the history of Belper during a special visit from a member of the Derwent Valley Mills World Heritage Site, as well as looking at photographs from the past and the present.

In science we will be looking at the seasons Autumn and Winter, discussing seasonal change and how each season is different.

In Design and Technology we will be designing and making our own (small scale) playground equipment following our research at the River Gardens play area.

Earth and Space!

 

During Spring 1 we are going to be learning about some of the main events in space history, a brief synopsis of the life of Neil Armstrong as well as lear​​​​ning basic space facts and names of the planets. We will also be linking this to science, covering light and dark.

 

 We will create our own Solar System collages as well as designing our very own planet! Our role play corner will be transformed into a rocket and we will have fun dressing up as astronauts in there, blasting off to space!

 

Also this half term, in RE, we shall be looking at Special People. We will be naming lots of special people in our lives and will say what makes each of them special to us. We will also be getting creative and making some thank you cards to send to some of these special people!

 

During this half term we shall be zooming off to Leicester to visit the National Space Centre where we shall learn all about the different planets, as well as getting a close look at some real moon rock!

     

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During this half term we are learning about different countries and continents and comparing the weather and landscapes. W​e w​ill be looking at Africa as our hot continent, using African artefacts to do observational drawings and hearing stories that have African settings, such as Handa's Surprise. We will also be designing and creating our own African fabrics using repeating patterns and symmetry.

Our cold comparison will be the North and South Poles. We will be finding out where penguins and pole polar bears live, as well as learning about inuits and their homes. We will be comparing these homes to the homes in parts of Africa and our own homes.

We will be using maps and globes to locate the UK and to find the capital cities of England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales.

    
 

​​Throughout Summer 1 we will be learning all about plants and trees. We will be using plants for observational drawings and naming different plants and flowers.

Our school trip this half term is to Kedleston Park. Our guide there will lead us through games and fun activities about trees, plants, fruits and vegetables.

Also this half term we will each be planting our own sunflowers! We will place them around our classroom, water them each day and watch them grow. Using our Seed Diary, we are going to measure the growth of our sunflowers and record our findings.

In art we will be recreating our own version of the painting 12 Sunflowers by Van Gogh.

Seasides past and present

 

During Summer 2 our topic is about seasides, today and from the past. We will be exploring different artefacts from the Victorian times and making comparisons to today's seasides and holidays.

 

In art we shall be learning about the French artist Georges Seurat, who created pictures using millions of dots of colour called Pointillism. We will design our own beach scenes using this technique.

 

In Literacy we are going to be writing our very own fantasy stories! We will be using our imagination to design our own imaginary settings and will then be making our own character puppets for our stories. We are very excited to start writing our stories and become fantasy story authors!

 

In PE we will be starting our Athletics sessions with a specialist coach who comes in to teach us! We will be learning to jump and land safely, throw and catch with control and run at different speeds. Our teacher thinks we may have quite a few future Olympians!!