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  • Year 1/2 Curriculum

    Autumn 2023

    Spring 2024

    Summer 2024

    CUSP Reading 

    • Grandad's Island Block 1
    • Aesop's Fables - The Goose that laid the Golden Eggs Block 2
    • Mrs Noah's Pockets Block 3 
    • Paddington Blocks 4, 5
    • The Christmas Pine - Julia Donaldson
      Block 6
    • The Quangle Wangle's Hat - Edward Lear Block 7
    • Coming to England Block 8
    • The Street Beneath My Feet Block 9
    • Rhythm of the Rain  Blocks 10, 11
    • Little People Big Dreams  Block 12
    • Fantastically Great Women Who Changed the World
      Blocks 13, 14
    • Aesop’s Fables – The Sun and The Wind Block 15
    • Fantastic Mr Fox
      Blocks 16, 17, 18

    CUSP Writing

    • Character descriptions A
    • Poems developing vocabulary A
    • Simple retelling of a narrative A
    • Formal invitations A
    • Stories from other cultures A
    • Poetry on a theme (humorous) A
    • Non-chronological reports A
    • Formal invitations B
    • Stories from other cultures B
    • Recount from personal experience A
    • Non-chronological reports B
    • Simple retelling of a narrative B
    • Recount from personal experience B
    • Poems developing vocabulary B (Enrichment)
    • Character description B
    • Poetry on a theme (humorous / poems about change) B (Enrichment)

    Maths

    • Place Value
    • Addition and Subtraction
    • Shape
    • Money
    • Multiplication and Division
    • length and height
    • mass Capacity and temperature 
    • Fractions
    • Time
    • Statistics
    • Position and Direction

    CUSP Science

    • Living things and their habitats
    • Animals, including humans
     
    • Uses of everyday materials
    • Revisit Living things and their habitats / materials
     
    • Plants
    • Revisit Living things and their habitats / Animals, including humans

    CUSP Art and Design

    • Drawing Block A
    • Painting Block B
     
    • Printmaking Block C
    • Textiles and collage Block D
     
    • 3D Block E
    • Creative Response Block F

    Computing

    • Information Technology around us
    • Digital photography
     
    • Robot algorithms
    • Pictograms
     
    • Making Music 
    • Programming quizzes

    CUSP Design and Technology 

    • Textiles Block A
    • Food and Nutrition Block B
      Sci Living things
     
    • Mechanisms Block C
    • Materials Block D
      Sci Use of Everyday materials
    • Food and Nutrition Block E
    • Structures Block F

    CUSP Geography

    • Human and Physical features
    • Compare a small part of the UK to a non-European location – London and Nairobi
     
    • Compare a small part of the UK to a non-European location – London and Nairobi 
    • Fieldwork and map skills
     
    • Fieldwork and map skills
    • Compare a different non-European location to our locality - Amazon Rainforest

    CUSP History

    • Events beyond living memory
     
    • Significant historical events, people, places in our locality
     
    • Significant historical events, people, places in our locality
    • Revisit – Events beyond living memory

    CUSP Music - Tuned and untuned percussion

    Untuned percussion 

    • Untuned focus: Experimenting with sounds 2 Block A
    • Representing sounds pictorially Block A

    Singing 

    • Singing focus: Being together in music 2 Block B
    • Control the voice – sing as a choir Block B

    Music

    Untuned percussion 

    • Untuned focus: Introducing rhythm and pulse 2 Block C
    • Compose short patterns Block C

    Singing 

    • Singing focus: Introducing pitch 2 Block D
    • Control and describe pitch Block D

    Music

    Untuned percussion 

    • Tuned focus: Introducing tempo and dynamic 2 Block E
    • Control and describe tempo and dynamic Block E

    Singing 

    • Singing focus: Exploring emotions through music 2 Block F
    • Choose sounds to create an effect Block F