Year 1 Curriculum Information
Term: Summer 2026
Year 1 Curriculum Information
Term: Summer 1 2026
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 Team Building and Athletics.
PE will take place on a Monday and Tuesday.
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 are:
- Addition and Subtraction word problems
- Multiplication
- Division
- Fractions (Halves and Quarters)
- Numbers to 100
Science
Summer 1 we are learning about “Plants”
This will include:
- What is a plant?
- Parts of a plant.
- Wild and garden plants.
- Deciduous and evergreen trees.
- Sorting seeds
- Which plant parts can you eat?
In Summer 1 in Geography we will be learning about 'What is it like to live in Shanghai?'
This will include:
- What can we see in our local area?
- Can we map our local area?
- Where in the world is China?
- What can you see in China?
- What is Shanghai like?
- How is Shanghai different from our local area?
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 Summer 1 we are looking at sentence level work around the book “Rapunzel”. In this unit we will be focusing on Pronouns and simple subject.
Art
In Art we will be making our own 3-D sculptures out of card. We will be using techniques such as rolling, folding and scrunching.
RE
In RE we will be looking at the topic "Desert to Garden". In this topic we will be learning all about the last weeks of Jesus' life on earth. We will be looking at key messages of forgiveness and that Jesus died and rose again.
Our CST topic for Summer 1 is "Dignity of Workers".
