Year 1 - Summer 1

Topic Question

Core Text

Visits/Visitors

How does your garden grow?

Stuart the Gardener/Allotments

Driver and Enhancer

Experience

(linked to Global Citizenship skills)

Geography and DT

Parent Cafe

Key Learning

Geography

Key Learning

DT

Golden Question

(linked to British Values and SMSC)

• Identify seasonal and daily weather patterns in the UK
• Position on the UK in relation to the Equator
• Locality fieldwork: Surrounding areas including a park study/minibeast hunt.

• Designing a salad using items grown and prepared in school.

What do plants need in our gardens in order to grow?

Key Vocabulary

equator, weather, climate, seasons, same, different, grow, plant, prepare, healthy, diet

How to Help at Home

Plant some seeds and talk to your child about what plants need to grow.

Year 1 - Summer 2

Topic Question

Core Text

Visits/Visitors

How would you get to the Maasai Mara?

Parents

Driver and Enhancer

Experience

(linked to Global Citizenship skills)

Geography and Art

Animal Mask Performance

Key Learning

Geography

Key Learning

Art

Golden Question

(linked to British Values and SMSC)

• Place Knowledge & Fieldwork: Kenya (Maasai Mara)
• Compare the area around school with the Maasai Mara.

• Collage with textiles: cultural study using Kamau Joseph, Kenyan artist.
• Develop a range of techniques using colour, texture and pattern

Would you prefer to live in England or the Maasai Mara?

Key Vocabulary

similar, different, rural, urban, area, city, town, village, farm, continent, Africa, Europe, Kenya, UK, country, colour, texture, pattern, artist

How to Help at Home

Visit an urban farm; The Garden House Stockport, Cockfields Farm Ashton