Year 1 Curriculum Information
Term: Autumn 2025
Year 1 Curriculum Information
Term: Autumn 2025
Class: Y1M Teacher: Miss McCracken
Class: Y1R Teacher: Mr Rhodes
Home Learning
We encourage the children to read for at least 10 minutes each night. We will change reading books and check reading records on Mondays and Thursdays. Please make sure children bring in their reading records and reading journals on these days.
Home learning will be set on Google Classroom on a Friday to be completed by the following Thursday. This will include one piece of either English or Maths (Alternating each week) and their weekly spellings. We will have our weekly spelling test on Thursday afternoon.
PE
In PE our topics are gymnastics and ball skills.
PE will take place on a:
Y1M Monday and Tuesday.
Y1R:Tuesday and Wednesday.
Please can children come to school wearing their PE kits on this day.
Our OLM PE uniform is:
-A plain white t-shirt or a white t-shirt with the school logo
-Navy unbranded tracksuit bottoms or short
-Plain white or black unbranded trainers
-A OLM jumper or cardigan (their normal school jumper)
Maths
At OLM we use the Maths No Problem scheme. This scheme focuses on mastery of different mathematical concepts. Each child will have their own workbook which is made of different chapters (See below for the current chapters for this half term). At the end of each chapter there will be a review to complete. Your children will bring a blank copy of this to complete as homework. This will inform you on which parts your child is confident in and which areas they may need additional support.
Chapters for this half term
Numbers to 10
In this chapter:
- Counting to 10
- Counting objects to 10
- Writing to 10
- Counting to zero
- Comparing numbers of objects
- Ordering numbers
- Comparing numbers
We will be encouraging children to be writing the digits 0-9 correctly the right way round.
Number bonds
In this chapter:
- Making number bonds
- Making Number stories
Addition within 10
In this chapter:
- Add by using number bonds
- Add by counting on
- Completing number sentences
- Making addition stories
- Solving picture problems
Addition within 10
- Add by using number bonds
- Add by counting on
- Completing number sentences
- Making addition stories
Numbers to 20
- Counting to 20
- Writing to 20
- Comparing numbers
- Ordering Numbers
- Number Patterns
Science
Autumn 1 we are learning about “Seasonal Changes”
This will include:
- Wonderful weather.
- Seasonal activities.
- How do trees change?
- Day light hours.
- Observing over time.
In Autumn 2 we are learning about 'Everyday Materials'
This will include:
- Naming materials
- Material detectives
- Properties of materials
- Is it absorbent?
- Is it waterproof?
In Autumn 1 in Geography we will be learning about 'What is it like here?'
This will include:
- Where in the world are we?
- What can we see in our classroom?
- What can we find in our school grounds?
- Where are the different places in our school?
- How do we feel about our playground?
In Autumn 2 in History we will be learning about 'How am I making History?'
This will include:
- What is my history?
- How can I find out more about myself?
- How are special events remembered?
- What was it like for children in the past?
- How am I making history?
English
In Year 1, we use Rocket Phonics. Children start this scheme in Early Years Foundation Stage and then progress on to more complex phonemes and graphemes. The children have their own workbooks, which they fill in each day.
Children read twice a week in school, during small guided reading sessions. We use the corresponding high quality Rocket Phonics reading books. Children also take home two Rocket Phonics reading books a week.
It is really important that children are exposed to a variety of books and to support this we read aloud daily to the children in class. Please could parents support their child by reading aloud to them each day at home so they are exposed to a rich vocabulary of language.
In our writing lessons in Autumn 1 we are looking at sentence level work around the book “Bear and Bird: The Picnic and Other Stories”. In this unit we will be focusing on starting our sentences with a capital letter, letter formation and ending our sentences with a full stop.
In our writing lessons in Autumn 2 we are looking at sentence level work around the book “Claude in the City”. In this unit we will be focusing on nouns and verbs.
RE
Autumn 1:
In RE our topic is families (4 weeks) and belonging (3 weeks)
Our CST topic for this half term is the “Care of Creation”.
Belonging (4weeks)
Autumn 2:
Judaism (1week)
Advent (4 weeks)
