How does your garden grow?
Whitefield Primary School – Year 1 curriculum (Summer 1) Key Reading Texts: Fiction
Literacy
Handa’s Surprise A seed In Need Oliver’s Vegetables
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Key Reading: Non- fiction
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Eddie’s Garden Variety of adverts and the language used.
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Use a wider range of vocabulary. Use connectives to extend our sentences and make them more exciting. Use time connectives to organise a recount. Re-write a familiar story.
Maths Recognise and name 2D shapes. Describe the position of an item. E.g next to, behind etc. Describe movement including, whole, half and quarter turns.
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Science Identify and name a range of common garden and wild plants. • Identify and name a range of common trees. •
Important dates to remember
How does your garden grow?
P.E: Wednesday, children will need to have a P.E kit in school. Homework: Available on seesaw on Friday. Reading books: Returned as often as possible. Spelling books: returned to school on a Wednesday.
Foundation Subjects
Trips and visitors
How can you help your child at home? •
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DT Stitch and join materials to make a 3D flower. Geography Know the 4 countries that make up the United Kingdom, their capital cities and the surrounding seas. History Know we have a Queen who rules Britain. PSHE How do we get money?
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Gordale Garden Centre. Grow our own plants.
Computing •
eCadet challenge- sensible eSafety rules. • Technology in our lives- saving and retrieving data.
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Talk about the shapes you can see in the environment. Explain to your child where we live and help them to find it on a map. Regularly read with your child. Practise reading and writing high frequency words.
Literacy
Handa’s Surprise A seed In Need Oliver’s Vegetables
• •
Key Reading: Non- fiction
•
Eddie’s Garden Variety of adverts and the language used.
•
Use a wider range of vocabulary. Use connectives to extend our sentences and make them more exciting. Use time connectives to organise a recount. Re-write a familiar story.
Maths Recognise and name 2D shapes. Describe the position of an item. E.g next to, behind etc. Describe movement including, whole, half and quarter turns.
• • •
Science Identify and name a range of common garden and wild plants. • Identify and name a range of common trees. •
Important dates to remember
How does your garden grow?
P.E: Wednesday, children will need to have a P.E kit in school. Homework: Available on seesaw on Friday. Reading books: Returned as often as possible. Spelling books: returned to school on a Wednesday.
Foundation Subjects
Trips and visitors
How can you help your child at home? •
• •
• • •
DT Stitch and join materials to make a 3D flower. Geography Know the 4 countries that make up the United Kingdom, their capital cities and the surrounding seas. History Know we have a Queen who rules Britain. PSHE How do we get money?
• •
Gordale Garden Centre. Grow our own plants.
Computing •
eCadet challenge- sensible eSafety rules. • Technology in our lives- saving and retrieving data.
• • •
Talk about the shapes you can see in the environment. Explain to your child where we live and help them to find it on a map. Regularly read with your child. Practise reading and writing high frequency words.
