Welcome to Year One

Spring Term 1
Who is Walt Disney?

This half term we will be using all things Disney to inspire our completion of work. Through our history led learning we will be identifying who Walt Disney was and linking his timeline into important well known dates throughout or schools curriculum. 

Making links before his timeline started to; The Great Fire of London in Year 2, during his timeline; World War I and II in Year 4 and Year 5 learning and the inauguration of Queen Elizabeth II. Year 1 will be learning and exploring the important impacts to society he has made during his lifetime and the legacy he has left after. We will also be identifying and naming a variety of green life and the basic structure of common flowering plants and trees.  

Spring 2

Who would live in a castle like this?

This Spring term 2 we will be learning all about castles, queens, kings, knights, princesses and princes as part of our topic.

In Art we will be applying our monarch inspiration to design and create colourful masterpieces using; paint, chalk and pencils associated with medieval times. 

In science we look at the different materials. We will be investigating all the common materials properties and identifying its best fit when building a castle.    

In History we will be looking at the lives of significant people and our British monarch.

To inspire our writing we will be using traditional tails, poems and stories/films created by Walt Disney/ Along with the factual information from our own growing monarch.