1. sports
2. gymnastics

Y1 Newsletter June 2015
Our Topic this half term is...
Up, Up and Away!
We are now teaching from the New Primary Curriculum in all subjects. Below is the outline of our half term; although we have planned
what will be taught each week, this can change over time as children take a shorter or longer time to meet each learning objective.
Week 1
Literacy
Numeracy
Topic
PE
Week 2
Week 3
Book: Here Come the
Aliens by Colin
McNaughton
Book: Here Come the
Aliens by Colin
McNaughton
Book: We’re Off to
Look for Aliens
McNaughton
To write a description
of an alien.
To the story of Here
Come the Aliens
To write a letter to the
author
Measuring length
Solving one-step
problems involving
addition and
subtraction.
Solving one step
problems involving
multiplication and
division.
To order aeroplanes in
chronological order.
To describe aeroplanes
from different
historical periods.
To design and make a
glider. To evaluate our
design and product
against a set of
criteria.
To learn about the
Wright brothers and
their contribution to
aeroplane design.
Gymnastics – seated
balance
Ball Skills – catching
Gymnastics – seated
balance with a partner
Ball skills - throwing
Gymnastics – seated
balance with a partner
Ball skills – throwing at
a target
Week 4
Week 5
Week 6
Week 7
Those magnificent
sheep in their flying
machine – Peter Bently
Poetry by Robert Louis
Stevenson
Source: A Child's
Garden of Verses
Nonfiction texts –
Aeroplanes
Nonfiction – writing
about aeroplanes
To write a diary of an
aeroplane journey
(either children’s own
experiences or linked
to a text read in class
To write a non-fiction
page about aeroplanes
and flying.
Describe position,
direction and
movement, including
whole, half, quarter
and three quarter
turns.
To name and locate
Europe, Asia and
Africa. To name and
locate the Atlantic and
Indian oceans.
To solve word
problems involving
addition, subtraction,
multiplication or
division.
To represent and use
number bonds and
related subtraction
facts within 20.
Measuring mass
To create an
observational drawing
of an aeroplane using
historical pictures.
To know which foods
are grown in the UK
and which are
imported by
aeroplane.
To create and debug
simple programs using
EspressoCoding.
Gymnastics – using
large apparatus to
balance and move in
different ways
Athletics - running
Gymnastics – using
large apparatus to
balance and move in
different ways
Athletics - jumping
Gymnastics – using
large apparatus to
balance and move in
different ways
Athletics - skipping
Gymnastics – using
large apparatus to
balance and move in
different ways
Athletics - throwing
To write a story about
the sheep flying in
their plane.
To write a poem about
summer
Please help us to give the children a settled start to the day by only giving out birthday party invitations in the playground before or after school rather, than in the
classroom. Thank you.