SGSE

Year 01 and 02 Curriculum

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Click to Expand our Year 1 and 2 English Curriculum:

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Poetry Focus
Acrostic animal poems
Alliteration

Fiction Focus
"The Day the Crayons Quit" by Oliver Jeffers
Description – adjectives and similes

"The Owl who was Afraid of the Dark" by Jill Tomlinson
Overcoming a fear
Story openings and endings

Non-Fiction Focus
Letters to and from characters using the first- and third-person tense
Diary entries from the perspective of story characters.

Poetry Focus
"The Sound Collector" by Roger McGough
Rhyming couplets
Onomatopoeic words

Fiction focus:
"Not Now, Bernard" by David McKee
Description – use of adjectives, verbs and adverbs, synonyms

"Amazing Grace" by Mary Hoffman
Story openings and endings – time conjunctions, adverbs, sentence starters

Non-fiction focus:
Non-chronological reports – using formal language, titles, subheadings, pictures, captions, diagrams, labels, conjunctions and apostrophes for possession
Instructions – use of imperative verbs, ordinal numbers, time conjunctions and adverbs

Poetry Focus
"If I Were a Hawk" by Clare Bevan
Identifying and using alliteration in poetry
Rhyming couplets
Using an apostrophe for omitted letters

Fiction focus:
"The Dark" by Lemony Snicket
Description – use of adjectives, verbs and adverbs, repetition, and creating suspense

"Fantastic Mr Fox" by Roald Dahl
Dialogue – direct speech, inverted commas, synonyms and words for said and ambitious word choices

Non-fiction focus:
Biography – adjectives and time conjunctions when writing in the past tense. Understanding sentence types such as statements, facts and opinions
Persuasive Text – use of imperative verbs, key facts, slogans, similes and alliteration to create an eye-catching leaflet

Click to Expand our Year 1 and 2 Maths Curriculum:

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Number: Place Value
Sort objects
Count objects
Represent objects
Recognise numbers as words
Count on from any number
Finding 1 more and 1 less
Count backwards within 10
Compare groups by matching
Fewer, more, same
Less than, greater than, equal to
Compare numbers
Order objects and numbers
Using a number line

Number: Addition and Subtraction
The part-whole model
Number sentences
Fact families – addition facts
Number bonds within 10
Number bonds to 10
Solving addition and subtraction problems
Subtraction – find a part
Fact families
Subtraction – taking away/crossing out
Subtraction on a number line

Shape
Recognise and name 3-D shapes
Sort 3-D shapes
Recognise and name 2-D shapes
Sort 2-D shapes
Patterns with 2-D and 3-D shapes

Place Value (within 20)
Count within 20
Understand 10
Understand 11, 12 and 13
Understand 14, 15 and 16
Understand 17, 18 and 19
Understand 20
1 more, 1 less
The number line to 20
Use a number line to 20
Estimate on a number line to 20
Compare numbers to 20
Order numbers to 20

Addition and Subtraction (within 20)
Add by counting on within 20
Add ones using number bonds
Find and make number bonds to 20
Doubles
Near doubles
Subtract ones using number bonds
Subtraction – counting back
Subtraction – finding the difference
Related facts
Missing number problems

Place Value (within 50)
Count from 20 to 50
20, 30, 40 and 50
Count by making groups of tens
Groups of tens and ones
Partition into tens and ones
The number line to 50
Estimate on a number line to 50
1 more, 1 less

Mass and Volume
Heavier and lighter
Measure mass
Compare mass
Full and empty
Compare volume
Measure capacity
Compare capacity

Multiplication and Division
Count in 2s
Count in 10s
Count in 5s
Recognise equal groups
Add equal groups
Make arrays
Make doubles
Make equal groups - grouping

Multiplication and Division
Count in 2s
Count in 10s
Count in 5s
Recognise equal groups
Add equal groups
Make arrays
Make doubles
Make equal groups – grouping
Make equal groups – sharing

Fractions
Recognise half of an object or shape
Find a half of an object or a shape
Recognise a half of a quantity
Find a half of a quantity
Recognise a quarter of an object or shape
Find a quarter of an object or shape
Recognise a quarter of a quantity
Find a quarter of a quantity

Geometry: Position and Direction
Describe turns
Describe position – left and right
Describe position – forwards and backwards
Describe position – above and below
Ordinal numbers
Place Value – Within 100
Count from 50 to 100
Tens to 100
Partition into tens and ones
The number line to 100
1 more, 1 less
Compare numbers with the same number of tens
Compare any two numbers

Money
Unitising
Recognise coins
Recognise notes
Count in coins

Time
Before and after
Months of the year
Hours, minutes and seconds
Tell the time to the hour
Tell the time to the half hour

Multiplication and Division
Multiplication sentences
Use arrays
Make equal groups – grouping
Make equal groups – sharing
Divide by 2
Odd and Even numbers
Divide by 10
Divide by 5
The 5 and 10 times tables

Fractions
Equal and unequal parts
Recognise a half
Recognise a quarter
Find a quarter
Recognise a third
Find a third
Find the whole
Unit fractions
Non-unit fractions
Recognise the equivalence of a half and two quarters
Recognise three-quarters
Find three-quarters
Count in fractions up to a whole

Geometry: Position and Direction
Language of position
Describe movement
Describe turns
Describe movement and turns
Shape patterns with turns

Statistics
Make tally charts
Tables
Block Diagrams
Draw and interpret pictograms (1 – 1)
Draw and interpret pictograms (2, 5 and 10)

Time
O’clock and half past
Quarter past and quarter to
Tell time past the hour
Tell time to the hour
Tell the time to the nearest 5 minutes
Minutes in an hour
Hours in a day

Click to Expand our Year 1 and 2 Science Curriculum:

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Identify and compare the uses of a variety of everyday materials, including wood, metal, plastic, glass, brick, and rock, paper and cardboard.

Find out how the shapes of solid objects made from some materials can be changed by squashing, bending, twisting and stretching.

Compare how things move on different surfaces.

Identifying what a seed needs to germinate, grow and stay healthy

The importance of hygiene

Exercise and a healthy diet

Basic needs for survival in animals and humans

Understand that animals have offspring and that not all offspring resemble the adult animal

Identify that some animals have live young whilst others lay eggs

Plants
Identify what plants need to stay healthy
Identify what a seed needs to germinate
Identify what plants need to grow
Describe how flowers grow
Compare flowers and plants to identify similarities and differences
Name the different parts of a plant e.g. root, stem, trunk, leaf, flowers
Identify and name a variety of common wild and garden plants
Identify and name a variety of deciduous and evergreen trees

Living Things and Their Habitats
Describe how animals obtain their food from plants and other animals
Identify and name different sources of food
Create a simple food chain for habitats in my local environment
Accurately describe a habitat and micro-habitat
Identify and name a variety of plants and animals in their habitats or micro-habitats
Describe how animals and plants depend on each other
Describe how certain animals are suited to their habitats
Describe how habitats provide for the basic needs of animals and plants
Identify that most living things live in suitable habitats
Compare the differences between things that are living, dead and things that have never been alive

Click to Expand our Year 1 and 2 Art and DT Curriculum:

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Art
Students will explore the use of chalks and oil pastels for blending colours.

Design and Technology
Students will explore wheels and axles and how they work.
Students will use cutting, folding and joining techniques as well as papier mâché to design and create fire engines.

Art
Students will explore the use of colour and texture in their artwork using a range of colour palettes and different techniques for applying colour.
Students will be introduced to a variety of artists, techniques and styles and use these to influence their own creations.
Artists the students explore include Mondrian, Rothko, Pollock and Kandinsky.

Art
Children will produce different pieces of artwork by:
Understanding that we can use different media to capture the nature of things we find
Experimenting with tools and surfaces
Collecting, sorting and arranging natural objects for photography in the style of Andy Goldsworthy
Painting with home-made tools

Click to Expand our Year 1 and 2 Humanities Curriculum:

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History
To understand about events beyond living memory that are significant nationally or globally
The Great Fire of London

Geography
Locational Knowledge
Can name and locate key landmarks of the local area
Can describe the local area’s characteristics/features e.g. produce a list of human and physical geography
Can describe these features and locate them on a map using images or drawings
Place Knowledge
Can make observations about, and describe, the local area and its physical and human geography

History
To talk about main events and people from the periods studied.
Mary Seacole, Florence Nightingale and nursing as a profession.

Geography
Locational Knowledge
I can observe the local area and its human and physical geography
Place Knowledge
I can compare a small area of the UK and a non-European country (Jamaica)
I can make observations about geographical similarities and differences
Geographical Skills and Fieldwork
I can use simple compass directions.

History
To sequence dates on a timeline
Begin to understand that dates can be used to describe events
Understand how historians find out about the past in different ways
Compare images of past and present
Compare sources of information about the past
Explain and record events and actions from the past

Geography
To identify North, East, South and West on a compass
To observe the geography of the surrounding environment
Draw simple maps using keys
Use world maps, atlases and compasses to identify countries, continents and oceans
To identify the general location of animals and foods across the world’s continents

Click to Expand our Year 1 and 2 ICT Curriculum:

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Creating Media – Digital Painting
To use paint tools to draw a picture
To use the shape and line tools
To make careful choices when painting a digital picture
Explain that different tools do different jobs
Use a computer on my own to paint a picture

Programming – Moving a Robot
To explain what a given command will do
Predict the outcome of commands on a device
Combining ‘forwards’ and ‘backwards’ commands to make a sequence
To use a range of directional commands
Plan a simple program
To find more than one solution to a problem

Creating Media
To use shape tools and line tools
To use a computer to paint a digital picture
To describe what different freehand tools do

Programming
To explain what a given command will do
To combine directional commands to make sequences
To plan a simple program

Digital Music
Identify simple differences in pieces of music
To identify that there are patterns in music
To experiment with sound using a computer
To use a computer to create a musical pattern
To create music for a purpose

Programming Quizzes
Explain that a sequence of commands has a start
Predict and change the outcomes of a sequence of commands
To create a program using a given design
To change designs using a range of backgrounds and characters
To create a program based upon my own design including algorithms, sequences of blocks and images
To evaluate and debug my program

Click to Expand our Year 1 and 2 PSHEE Curriculum:

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Being Me in My World and Celebrating Differences
I can identify some of my hopes and fears for this year
I understand the rights and responsibilities for being a member of my class and school
I can listen to other people and contribute my own ideas about rewards and consequences
I understand how following the Class Charter will help me and others learn
I can recognise the choices I make and understand the consequences
I am starting to understand that sometimes people make assumptions about boys and girls (stereotypes)
I understand some ways in which boys and girls are similar and feel good about this
I understand some ways in which boys and girls are different and accept that this is OK
I understand that bullying is sometimes about difference
I can recognise what is right and wrong and know how to look after myself
I know some ways to make new friends
I can tell you some ways I am different from my friends

Dreams and Goals
Identify my successes and achievements and know how this makes me feel
Tell someone some of my strengths as a learner
Understand how working with other people can help me to learn
Work with other people to solve problems and express how it feels to be a part of a group
Know how contributing to the success of a group feels

Healthy Me
Know what I need to keep my body healthy
Explain what relaxed/stressed means and identify things that make me feel relaxed/stressed
Understand how medicines work in my body and how important it is to use them safely
Sort foods into the correct food groups, know which foods my body needs every day to keep me healthy and know which foods are most nutritious

Relationships
Identify the different members of my family and understand my relationship with each of them
Accept that everyone’s family is different and understand that most people value their family
Know which types of physical contact I like and don’t like and talk about this
Identify some of the things that cause conflict with friends
Demonstrate using positive problem-solving techniques to resolve conflict
Understand that sometimes it is good to keep a secret and sometimes it is not good to keep a secret
Understand how it feels to trust someone
Recognise and appreciate people who can help me in my family, school and my community
Express my appreciation for people in my special relationships

Changing Me
Tell you about the natural processes of growing from young to old
Recognise how my body has changed since I was a baby and where I am on the continuum from young to old
Introduce the concept of male and female gender stereotypes
Identify differences between males and females
Explore differences between males and females and to understand how this is part of the lifecycle
Describe the physical differences between males and females

Click to Expand our Year 1 and 2 RE Curriculum:

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Living by rules
To understand that we need rules in all parts of our society, which keep people safe.
To understand that rules are given because of the love and care that the rule giver has for that particular group of people.
To explore the first 3 commandments of the Bible’s Old Testament which help us to understand the character of God and that He is someone we would want to obey and take rules from.
To explore the Islamic rules of prayer – the second pillar of Islam.

Being regardful of suffering
To begin to understand suffering in terms of its physical and emotional intensity.
To begin to understand how Jesus relieved suffering.
To begin to understand how people of faith respond to suffering (in our city).

Being temperate and exercising self-discipline
To understand that Christians believe that their behaviour can be seen by God
To show that people of faith draw an inner contentment from their relationship with or understanding of God.
To begin to understand the choice of fasting as a sign of willingness to put God first by controlling one’s feelings (e.g. Ramadan).

Sharing and being generous
To begin to explore the British tradition of giving Christmas gifts.
To begin to understand that Jesus’ life was planned from before he was born.
To begin to consider why Christians give gifts at Christmas.

Creating Unity and Harmony
Begin to see beyond stereotypes and begin to understand common humanity.
Raise awareness that one of the most important principles in Christianity is to love others, no matter who they are.
To explore the strong messages which are learnt during the Sikh Langar.

Participating and Willing to Lead
Explore team membership in a practical and fun way.
Explore the Christian concept that each individual has a particular role within the church and that each is essential.

Caring for Others, Animals and the Environment
Encourage explicit appreciation of the natural world and the people in it.
Encourage appreciation of the vulnerability of the natural world.
Explore the relationship between Sikhs and the community.

Being Merciful and Forgiving
Explore and define the concepts of mercy and forgiveness.
Explore the nature of God’s mercy and forgiveness and think about the application to our lives.
Explore the responsibility of those who are forgiven to be forgiving.

Being Silent and Attentive to, and Cultivating a Sense for the Sacred and Transcendent
Encourage and practice listening
Begin to understand the importance of quiet in a place of worship

Being Reflective and Self Critical
Establish that perfection is not a static concept
Consider the Christian belief that a relationship with Jesus initiated changes in behaviour
Apply the moral teaching of a parable to the children’s own life experience

Being Imaginative and Explorative
Encourage the use of imagination
To explore different ideas of God
Explore responding to beauty in a variety of forms
Explore the beauty of Adhan (the call to prayer)

Curriculum Overview:

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Students have two PE lessons each week. On days that students have PE they should arrive at school in their school uniform with their PE kits in a bag, that they can change in too.

Students also have one Music and one French lesson each week.