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Teaching Year 1 Class in St. John's School

(5 - 6 years)

Our School follows the National Curriculum for England because it sets out a clear, full and statutory entitlement to learning for all pupils.

Year 1 pupils in the classroom

The Teaching Programme is as follows:

ENGLISH

Knowledge skills and understanding

To speak clearly, fluently and confidently to different people
To listen, understand and respond to others
To join in as members of a group
To tell stories, real and imagined
To read aloud and reciting
To describe events and experiences
Speaking to different people, including friends, the class teachers and adults

Reading

Phonemic awareness and phonic knowledge
Grammatical awareness
Word recognition and graphic knowledge
Contextual understanding
Labels, Word cards, Name cards, Letterland
Hear, identify, segment and blend phonemes in words
Sound and name the letters of the alphabet
Read on sight high frequency words and other familiar words
Understand how word order affects meaning

Writing

Composition
Planning and drafting
Punctuation
Spelling
Put their ideas into sentences
Write familiar words and attempt unfamiliar ones
To use capital letters, full stops, question marks and to begin to use commas
Write each letter of the alphabet
Spell common words
Identify reasons for misspellings

Handwriting

How to hold a pencil/pen
To write from left to right and top to bottom of a page
To start and finish letters correctly
To form letters of regular size and shape
To put regular spaces between letters and words
How to form lower and uppercase letters
How to join letters
The importance of clear and neat presentation in order to communicate their meaning effectively
The range of forms of writing should include narratives, poems, notes, lists, captions, records, messages, instructions
Letterland

MATHEMATICS

Number and algebra

Problem solving
Counting
Number patterns and sequences
The number system
Calculations
Count reliably up to 20 objects at first and recognize that if the objects are rearranged the number stays the same; be familiar with the numbers 11 to 20; gradually extend counting to 100 and beyond
Create and describe number patterns; explore and record patterns related to addition and subtraction
Read and write numbers to 20 at first and beyond
Number operations and the relations between them
Mental methods

Shape, Space and measures

Understanding patterns and properties of shape
Understanding properties of position and movement
Understanding measures
Observe, handle and describe common 2D and 3D shapes
Create 2D and 3D shapes
Observe, visualize and describe positions, directions and movements using common words
Estimate the size of objects and order them by direct comparison using appropriate language

SCIENCE

Life processes and living things

Life processes
Humans and others animals
Green plants
Variation and Classification
Living things in their environment
The differences between things that are living and things that have never been alive
To recognize and compare the main external parts of the bodies of humans and other animals
To recognize that plants need light and water to grow
Recognize similarities and differences between themselves and others, and to treat others with sensitivity
Find out about different kinds of plants and animals in the local environment

Materials and their properties

Grouping materials
Changing materials
Use their senses to explore and recognize the similarities and differences between materials
Find out how the shapes of objects made from some materials can be changed by some processes, including squashing, bending, twisting and stretching

Physical processes

Electricity
Forces and motion
Light and sound
About everyday appliances that use electricity
To find out about, and describe the movement of, familiar things[for example, cars going faster, slowing down, changing direction
To identify different light sources, including the sun
That there are many kinds of sound and sources of sound