Guiseley Primary School

Year 1 - Green Class and Yellow Class

Curriculum overview

Termly Newsletters

Year 1 Summer Term Curriculum Overview 2025.pdf

Summer 1

This half term, we have been busy learning about where we live.

We learnt all about our local area and went on a walk around Guiseley to look for human and physical features.

Thanks to the lovely weather, we managed to get outside for lots of our lessons! We planted seeds in the outdoor classroom area which we will be checking on over the next half term.

The highlight of this half term was testing different fruits and vegetables and making delicious smoothies!

Spring 2

It's been another action-packed half term in Year 1! The children have loved learning about the different animal groups in science. We have learned lots of facts about the different groups. We applied our newly learnt facts to our writing in English when we wrote fact files about snakes, barn owls and sharks. It has been wonderful to see the children so passionate about writing with a purpose.

We've also been learning about measurements; the children were introduced to rulers and measuring in cm, as well as cubes and even paper clips!

It was World Book Day and we had a fantastic time making alternative book covers, writing book recommendations, dressing up and of course - lots of opportunities to read for pleasure throughout the day!

We embraced the sunshine and took part in a whole school Easter themed orienteering day; the children were so engaged and worked brilliantly as a team. We'll be doing more orienteering in the summer term. We are already looking forward to another exciting half term to kick off Summer 1 when we'll be learning all about where we live... Stay tuned!

Spring 1

What a brilliant half-term Year 1 have had.

Our topic this half-term was toys from the past and we have learnt so many interesting facts. We looked at pictures of toys our parents used to play with and compared them with toys we play with now. We found out that some of our toys escaped our classrooms and went on an adventure around school! We wrote stories about their adventures using time connectives.

In DT, the children made hand puppets based on their favourite fairy tales. They thoroughly enjoyed this!

This half-term Year 1 have been practising their skills on the computers by changing the font, size and colours of words. They used these skills to make posters for their imaginary missing pet.

Autumn 2

Wow, we can’t quite believe that a term has passed already! What a busy time we have had!

We have worked very hard with all our subjects, and have also managed to practise, then perform a Nativity. We hope you enjoyed our ‘Angel Express’ performance. The children did a fantastic job, and we were very proud of their speaking and acting skills.

This term we have been working on 2D and 3D shapes in Maths. We have also been looking at fact families, and part-whole models.

In English, we have been learning how to create story maps and plans, so that we could write our own stories. We also had Tempest Fugit visit us, where we enjoyed watching the stories Jack and the Beanstalk and Goldilocks. These have all helped the children write their own fantastic story based on the story The Three Little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig.

Where possible, we have tried to get outside to enhance our learning through nature and natural objects.

We hope you all have a lovely Christmas, and look forward to seeing you in 2025!

Autumn 1

The Year 1 children have settled into their new classes very well and have enthusiastically taken part in all aspects of their learning. We have been extremely proud of their attitudes and efforts.

We have been very busy during our 'Marvellous Me' topic. We have created our own portraits in the style of Pablo Picasso after looking at his art work that had an emphasis on cubism. We all thoroughly enjoyed art week and learning about the very talented Japanese artist, Yayoi Kusama.

The children have practised their counting and sorting skills in mathematics and have begun to calculate their own addition sentences by filling in part whole models. We have identified fact families and learnt that the answer to a calculation can sometimes be found at the start of a number sentence.

During science lessons, the children have learnt the different body parts and how important our senses are to find out about the world. We have carried out some experiments to find out answers to questions, such as "Are two eyes better than one?"

In geography we have enjoyed learning about the different countries in the United Kingdom and looking at maps closer to home. The children have navigated maps and created their own aerial maps of the classroom using keys. They have learnt about and identified human and physical features on local maps of Guiseley, Yeadon and Ilkley.

Through our history lessons we have learnt how to put events in chronological order on a time line and we got to look at pictures of our grandparents when they were our age.

Both classes were excited to visit the computer suite and have all been taught to login using their own usernames and passwords. They can now navigate a word document to type, delete and edit text. Perhaps they could show you what they have learnt over the holidays.