North Wheatley Primary School / Class 1 Long term Topic Plans

Curriculum Area

TOPIC TITLE
Season Events

Topic Trips / Special

Events

English

Autumn 1

Autumn 2

Bright Lights, Big

City
Harvest Festival,

Dinosaur Planet
St Andrews Day,
Remembrance
Sunday, Christmas
Events and Play with
YTC
Archaeology day,
Reptile day

Afternoon tea with

The Queen.
Learning visit to Fire
Station/Fire Engine
to visit school
Writing for different
purposes:
invitations, menus,
adverts, labels and
captions
Recounts,
Newspaper reports
and diaries linked to
the Great Fire of
London
Narrative:
Paddington Bear,
adventure stories.

Maths
(any key areas that
can be linked into
topic work)

Measures:
landmarks, heights,
distance,
Time: order of
events during the
Fire of
London: Thursday,
Friday, Saturday,
Sunday and times of

Fact files of different

prehistoric animals,
creating a class top
trumps game.
Poetry and riddles
What dinosaur am I?
Using descriptive
language to describe
dinosaurs and
prehistoric animals.
Non-chronology
reports being a
Palaeontologist.
Sharing facts.
Creating a class
information book
about dinosaurs.

Measuring dinosaurs
and sorting using <
and >
Weigh and weighing
linked to fossils and
stones.

Spring 1

Spring 2

Summer 1

Summer 2

Rio de Vida
St Davids Day, St Patricks Day, Mothers
Day, Easter Celebrations

Beachcombers
St Georges Day, SATs, Fathers Day, YTC
Summer Production, Transition Week, Pupils as
Teacher, Leavers.

End of Topic Carnival Parade

Learning visit to the Seaside

Poetry capturing the colours and sounds

of the carnival experience.
Myths and legends Vitoria-Regia,
Guarana, Saci Perere, Curupira. Retell
these legends. Create our own mythical
creates and legendary stories about them.
Information texts linked to Brazil. Looking
at the Olympics and football (Brazils
National sport).

Tongue twisters and poems She sells sea

shells. Exploring rhyme and pattern in written
and spoken language.
Narrative Julia Donaldsons The Snail and the
Whale Tiddler and Sharing a shell. Exploring
stories from one author and writing our own in a
similar style.
Letters messages in a bottle, letters home
from a seaside holiday.

Narratives stories of going to a carnival.

What might happen? Where will our story
take us?

Shape repeating patterns. Shapes in the

environment.
Counting in twos and fours linked to
rhythms in music.

Measuring and sorting using < > =

Counting seaside objects in a range of ways: 2s,
5s and 10s.

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day.
Materials what
were building made
out of in the past
and today? What are
the properties of
these materials?

Plants and animals

sorting and classifying
invertebrates, fish,
amphibians, reptiles,
birds and animals.

Class pet Hermit crabs. Observing changes

over time.
Visiting the seaside looking at habitats, rock
pools, sand dunes and beaches. Discussing food
chains and life cycles of seaside animals.

Labelling parts of
dinosaurs to
understand their
purpose.

Science

Classifying and sorting natural objects found at

the seaside.
Keeping a weather record and comparing
seasons.

Looking at fossils of
leaves and plants
from the prehistoric
age which plants still
exist from those
times?
Creating our own
postcards using
printing techniques.
Art & Design

Carrying out simple tests comparing tap water

and salt water.

Making our own fossils

using clay.

Making carnival masks and head dresses

using tools and materials.

Designing and making

dinosaur eggs using
Paper Mache.

Making flags and banners using collage

techniques.

Looking at a range of land snails, clams, limpets,

cockles and fish using microscopes.
Beachcomber artwork using natural resources
observational drawing and sketching.
Creating beach scenes using paints to explore
colour mixing and creating background and
foreground.

Easter Cards and Mothers Day Cards

Programmable Toys
creating routes and
maps for the
Beebots to follow.
Computing

Design & Technology

Christmas Cards
Using the internet to
conduct research.
E-safety.

Creating
advertisements for
London using ipads
(Imovie)

Fact files using

Tellagami

Making models of
landmarks using
junk model
materials.

Selecting tools for a

specific purpose
creating prehistoric
landscapes using
natural materials.

Baking bread and

making salt dough
following

Computing algorithms. Creating

instructions, debugging programs and
writing algorithms.
Beebot
Daisy the Dinosaur
Petsons Invention

Fathers Day Cards

Creating stories using My Story App.
Strip Design and Sock Puppets to create lots of
different stories and narratives based around
Julia Donaldson.

(Mr Andrews planning)

Making carnival instruments designing
and creating for a purpose to create a
Samba Band.

Make a finger puppet of a seaside animal that

we have been researching. Exploring materials
for a purpose, selecting and using tools for a
purpose, using sewing skills.

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instructions.
Using maps

Geography

Investigating the
four countries of the
United Kingdom,
their capital cities
and other significant
cities.
The Great Fire of
London the events
of significant people
from history: Samuel
Pepys and Thomas
Farriner.

History

Music/ Expressive
Arts

Traditional Songs
and Rhymes
Londons Burning,
London Bridge,
Oranges and
Lemons, Pussy Cat,
Pussy Cat, Ring of
Roses.
Singing in rounds.

Locating continents
and oceans around
the world. Where
would we find
dinosaurs? How have
these continents
changed over time?

Similiarities and differences between

Brazil and UK

Fossils what are

they? Feely bag of
fossils to explore.

The history of the Olympic Games within

living memory and beyond. How have they
changed?

Coastal features linked to science (habitats).

Compare and contrast our environment with
that of a seaside environment.

Landmarks of Brazil

Use a map to find routes to the seaside and

name seaside locations.

Mary Anning why is

she an important part
of history? What has
her contribution been
to science and
history?
Events beyond living
memory what was
life like in the time of
dinosaurs?
Exploring instruments.
Using instruments in
different ways to copy
and compose songs.
Production songs.

Visit from a Samba band.

Production Songs

Creating rhythms and patterns using

instruments.
Exploring Brazilian and Samba music
discussing feelings and emotions and their
preferences.
Composing our own song.
National Anthems what are they? Why
do we have them? How do they make us
feel? Which ones do we like?

Gymnastics
Physical Education

Gymnastics
Swimming

Dance

Dance

Games

Games
Games/Cricket

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Belonging
Religious Education

Diwali and Christmas

Jewish Stories
(David and Jonah)

Jesus Miracles and

Easter

From Creation to Shabbat

(Noah and Abraham)
Visiting a Church