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Our Lady of Walsingham Catholic Primary School

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Year 1 Autumn 2026

We have some very exciting topics this year! Please take a look at what we will be exploring this term. 

Literacy

Wanted: The perfect Pet

Focusing on finger spaces and full stops. To produce a non-chronological report.

The princess and the Dragon: continue to develop features of sentence writing and exploring poetry and non-fiction texts.

 

 

Maths

Number facts within 10, including doubling, halving, number bonds, addition and subtraction.

Patterns and identifying different shapes.

Numbers with 20 – addition and subtraction.

Math in action 

Science

Introduction to the seasons, starting with Autumn.

Animals including humans.

RE

Creation & Covenant: The Story of creation and the Nicene Creed

Prophecy and Promise: The Visitation and the birth of Jesus.

History

Queen Elizabeth II: What life was like for her as a child growing up through the war. Understanding what a coronation is and how people celebrated this.

Geography

Looking at livening in the countryside compared to living in a city.

Computing

Technology all around us – what is technology and how has it helped us.

Design Tech

Mechanism – making a moving story book.  Experiment with sliders before completing a book using a familiar text.

PSHE, E&D, RSE

Feeling and special people – understanding our feeling and how our body reacts to them.

To understand it ok to be different and to recognise that I am loved in my family.

Art & Design

Our Lady of Banneux for arts week.

Introduce sketchbooks and the artist Molly Housland – spirals and circles.

Art Autumn 1 

Music

My musical heartbeat – understanding rhythm

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