15 High Street, Tetsworth, Oxon OX9 7AB
Tel: 01844 281328

TETSWORTH PRIMARY SCHOOL

Class 1 consists of Nursery/Reception and Year 1 pupils. This plan takes the Year 1 plans as a basis with the activities and learning outcomes differentiated and changed for the Nursery and Reception pupils to allow them to develop their own interests in line with the Early Years Foundation Stage ethos.

Term 1 2019 – 20

Are we all the Same

PSHE Theme: Being Me in My World

Core Texts:

  • Everywhere Bear by Julia Donaldson
  • Only one of you by Linda Kranz
  • Alfie Gets in First by Shirley Hughes
  • Dear Zoo by Rod Campbell
  • Titch by Pat Hutchins
  • Nursery Rhymes by various

PSHE Outcomes:

Nursery/Reception

  • I can explain how to make and keep good relationships with others.
  • I can increase my self-confidence and self-awareness
  • I can explore ways in which to manage my feelings and behaviour.

Year 1

  • I understand my rights and responsibilities as a member of my class.
  • I know my views re valued and I can contribute to the Learning Charter/class rules
  • I can recognise the choices I make and understand the consequences.

Topic overview:

We will look at how we are all different but how we have some things in common. We will discuss homes, families, pets likes and dislikes, ourselves and pets.

We will do a study of Tetsworth and look at how villages and towns are the same/differ.

Writing Opportunities:

  • Label
  • Lists
  • Non-fiction writing
  • Retelling of fiction stories.
  • Using phonological knowledge for spellings – Phonic Schemes Used – Phonic Play/Letters and Sounds/Read, Write,Inc

Art/DT:

  • Self-portraits using mirrors
  • String pictures.
  • Animal masks
  • Plasticine models – morphing

Nursery

  • Play based work drawing
  • outnumber/shape/measures as appropriate
  • Observational drawings

Experiential Learning:

  • Visit from midwife/ mother and a baby.
  • Walk around the village identifying landmarks and how they are used
  • Harvest Festival

Maths:

Nursery 

  • Play based work drawing
  • outnumber/shape/measures as appropriate

Reception 

  • Read write and order numbers to 5
  • Sorting into Groups
  • Comparing groups
  • Language associated with time

Year 1

  • Place value within 10
  • 2d and 3d shape
  • Time

Science: 

Nursery and Reception

  • Days of the week
  • Seasons
  • Our bodies

Year 1

  • Seasonal changes – What do the children think will happen?
  • Our bodies – Naming parts of the body
  • Senses – What are the 5 senses.
  • Senses investigation – how and why do we use our senses?

RE:

  • Christianity – Harvest Time
  • Judaism – Believing in the Creation

PE: Football

ICT/Computing:

  • Typing
  • Using paint program to draw a pet.
  • Using cameras to photograph seasonal changes. Photographing plasticine Art –morphing

Music: Harvest festival songs. Pitch and Timbre

Term 2 2019 – 20

Festivals and celebrations

PSHE Theme: Celebrating Difference

Core Text:

Non- fiction books on celebrations

  • The story of Guy Fawkes.
  • Story of Rama and Sita
  • Nativity story
  • You must bring a hat by Simon Pulp
  • Poetry

PSHE Outcomes:

Nursery/Reception

  • I can describe how people are different to each other
  • I can explain what I am good at.

Year 1

  • I can tell some ways I am different to my friends.
  • I know these differences make us special and unique
  • I know what bullying is.
  • I know ways to stop bullying happening.

Topic Overview:

We will look at celebrations (such as Guy Fawkes Night) and Festivals from different religions and discuss their similarities and differences. We will also find out about the stories they are based on.

We will think about Remembrance Day and the links with the Memorial Hall /War Memorial in the village.

Writing Opportunities:

  • Poetry
  • Instructions
  • Retelling of stories linked to Festivals
  • Using phonological knowledge for spellings – Phonic Schemes Used – Phonic Play/Letters and Sounds/Read, Write,Inc

Art/DT:

  • Firework pictures
  • Junk models
  • Baking linked to Festival Foods
  • Divali pots
  • Mendi patterns

Experiential Learning:

  • Festival foods
  • Wearing traditional clothes linked to the Festivals studied.
  • Anti-bullying Work
  • Christmas service

Maths:

Nursery

  • Play based work drawing
  • outnumber/shape/measures as appropriate

Reception

  • Read write and order numbers to 5
  • Change within 5. 1 more 1 less.
  • 2d and 3d Shape and pattern

Year 1

  • Addition and subtraction within 10
  • Place value within 20

Science:

Nursery and Reception – Seasons with a focus on Autumn

Year 1

  • Seasonal changes – Autumn
  • Animals –Classification, birds, fish, mammals, amphibians, reptiles Carnivores and herbivores and omnivores

RE:

Judaism – The Mezuzah and Shabbat

Christianity – The Christmas Story

PE: Gymnastics

ICT/Computing: Cross curricular work

Music:

  • Christmas Carols.
  • Using their voices expressively and creatively to sing songs and rhymes

Term 3 2019 – 20

Julia Donaldson books

PSHE Theme: Dreams and Goals

Core Text:

Author Study – Julia Donaldson

  • The Gruffalo
  • Room on the Broom
  • Monkey Puzzle
  • What the Ladybird Heard
  • Whale and the Snail
  • Super Worm

PSHE Outcomes:

Nursery/Reception

  • I can overcome challenges.
  • I can set goals

Year 1

  • I can tell you how I felt when I succeeded in a new challenge
  • I can store my feelings of success
  • Topic Overview:
  • We will find out about the writer Julia Donaldson and discuss her books. We will discuss rhyme and pattern.

Writing Opportunities:

  • Rhyming poetry
  • Recount
  • Writing postcards
  • Instructions
  • Making predictions
  • Story structure
  • Using phonological knowledge for spellings – Phonic Schemes Used – Phonic Play/Letters and Sounds/Read, Write,Inc

Art/DT: Arts week: Landscapes using different forms

Experiential Learning:

Maths:

Nursery

  • Play based work drawing
  • outnumber/shape/measures as appropriate

Reception

  • Numbers to 10 including zero
  • Number bonds to 5
  • Length and height

Year 1

  • Addition and subtraction within 20
  • Length and height

Science: 

Nursery and Reception

  • Seasons with a focus on Winter
  • Ice/snow

Year 1

  • Seasonal changes – winter Ice Investigations
  • Habitats including micro habitats,
  • Habitats investigation.

RE:

  • Christianity – How and why are celebrations important? The Epiphany
  • Islam – how Muslims understand Allah

PE: Dance

ICT/Computing: Online Safety

Music: Experiment and create sounds using a range of materials

Term 4 2019 – 20

Animals

PSHE Theme: Healthy Me

Core Text:

  • Non- fiction books about animals here and abroad
  • Fiction Books –
  • Rosie’s Walk by Pat Hutchins
  • The Bear Who Stared by Duncan Beedie
  • How to Hide a Lion by Helen Stephens
  • Owl Babies by Martin Waddell
  • Can’t you SLeep Little Bear by Martin Waddell
  • Handa’s Surprise by Eileen Browne

PSHE Outcomes:

Nursery/Reception

  • I can make healthy choices.
  • I can understand how to keep myself safe

Year 1

  • I can tell you how amazing my body is
  • I can identify ways to keep my body safe and healthy
  • I can recognise how being healthy helps me to feel happy

Topic Overview: We will be finding out about animals and how we look after them correctly. We will relate this to how we keep ourselves healthy. We will think about the different ways in which animals can be grouped – eg farm animals , animals that live in the jungle, pets.

Writing Opportunities:

  • Instructions
  • Descriptive writing
  • Information texts
  • Narratives
  • Using phonological knowledge for spellings – Phonic Schemes Used – Phonic Play/Letters and Sounds/Read, Write,Inc

Art/DT:

  • Animal pictures – with a focus on camouflage and animal patterns
  • Printing

Experiential Learning: Farm Visit

Maths:

Nursery

  • Play based work drawing
  • outnumber/shape/measures as appropriate

Reception

  • Numbers to 10 including zero
  • Number bonds to 5
  • Addition to 10
  • Weight
  • Capacity

Year 1

  • Place value within 50 Multiples of 2 ,5 and 10
  • Weight and volume

Science:

Nursery and Reception

  • Seasons with a focus on Spring
  • Favourite foods/healthy eating

Year 1 – Seasonal changes – spring, Food chains

RE:

  • Judaism – how and why are some stories sacred and important in religion
  • Christianity – Easter

PE: Hockey

ICT/Computing: Cross curricular work

Music: Play untuned musical instruments

Term 5 2019 – 20

Around the World – the Olympics and Japan

PSHE Theme: Relationships

Core Text:

  • This is our house by Michael Rosen
  • The Queen’s hat by Steve Anthony
  • The Beckoning Cat by Koko Nishizuko
  • The way we do it by Gineva Cobb Lijima

PSHE Outcomes:

Nursery/Reception – I can understand how to make friends and keep them.

Year 1

  • I can tell you why I appreciate people who are special to me.
  • I can express my feelings when talking about people who are special to me.

Topic Overview:

  • We will look at Japan and other countries in preparation for the Olympics and compare them to the united Kingdom.
  • We will also discuss how to make and keep friends

Writing Opportunities:

  • Information texts
  • Research
  • Instructions
  • Using phonological knowledge for spellings – Phonic Schemes Used – Phonic Play/Letters and Sounds/Read, Write,Inc

Art/DT:

  • Koi fish
  • Blossom trees – 3D representations

Experiential Learning:

  • Invite people in who have visited Japan to talk about their experiences
  • Food Tasting

Maths:

Nursery

  • Play based work drawing
  • outnumber/shape/measures as appropriate

Reception

  • Exploring Patterns
  • Count on and back
  • Numbers to 20

Year 1

  • Multiplication and division
  • Fractions
  • Position and direction

Science:

Nursery and Reception

  • Seasons with a focus on Spring
  • Growing seeds

Year 1 – Plants – Observe and record how plants grow. Grow Runner Beans. – keep a diary of the changes that take place

RE:

  • Judaism – Pesach
  • Islam – the stories of Mohammad

PE: Netball

ICT/Computing: Coding

Music: Listen to a range of high quality music

Term 6 2019 – 20

Changes

PSHE Theme: Changing Me

Core Text:

  • Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle
  • Tadpoles Promise by Jeanne Willis
  • The Flower by John light / Lisa Evans
  • Can I build another me by Shinsuke Yoshitake
  • The Tiny Seed by Eric Carle
  • The Mixed up Chameleon by Eric Carle

PSHE Outcomes:

Nursery/Reception

  • I can describe how we change
  • I can describe where to go for help if worried.

Year 1

  • I can identify how boys and girls differ and I can use the correct vocabulary when talking about this differences.
  • I respect my body and understand which parts are private.

Topic Overview: We will look at how some animals change and how we change as we grow. We will think about the skills and knowledge we have learnt over the Academic Year. We will discuss transition to a new class / year and how to deal with worries.

Writing Opportunities:

  • Descriptive writing
  • Instructions
  • Recounts
  • Narratives
  • Using phonological knowledge for spellings – Phonic Schemes Used – Phonic Play/Letters and Sounds/Read, Write,Inc

Art/DT:

  • Life cycle pictures.
  • Collage linked to texts

Experiential Learning:

  • Growing plants
  • Watching tadpoles change into frogs

Maths:

Nursery

  • Play based work drawing
  • outnumber/shape/measures as appropriate

Reception

  • Numbers to 20
  • Numerical patterns
  • Year 1
  • Place value within 100
  • money
  • Time

Science:

Nursery and Reception – Seasons with a focus on Summer

Year 1

  • Seasonal changes – Summer.
  • Plants – Investigate the conditions needed for healthy growth

RE: Christianity – what do the sacred texts say about God/the world/human life?

PE: Cricket/ Rounders

ICT/Computing:

Music:

  • Music Evening
  • Using their voices expressively and creatively to sing songs and rhymes