Key Stage 1 Awareness Days

Earth Day

Art and Design

• Use a range of materials creatively to design and make products.
• Use drawing, painting and sculpture to develop and share their ideas, experiences and imagination.

Design and Technology

• Select from and use a range of tools and equipment to perform practical tasks (cutting, shaping, joining & finishing).

English

• Develop pleasure in reading, motivation to read, vocabulary and understanding by listening to, discussing and expressing views about a wide range of contemporary and classic poetry, stories and non-fiction at a level beyond that at which children can read independently.
• Use spoken language to develop understanding through speculating, hypothesizing, imagining and exploring ideas.
• Participate in discussions, presentations, performances, role play, improvisations and debate.

Music

• Use voices expressively and creatively by singing songs and speaking chants and rhymes.
• Play tuned and untuned instruments musically.

Art and Design

• Use a range of materials creatively to design and make products.
• Use drawing, painting and sculpture to develop and share their ideas, experiences and imagination.

English

• Develop pleasure in reading, motivation to read, vocabulary and understanding by:
  • listening to, discussing and expressing views about a wide range of contemporary and classic poetry, stories and non-fiction at a level beyond that at which they can read independently.
  • being encouraged to link what they read or hear read to their own experiences.
  • participating in discussion about what is read to them, taking turns and listening to what others say.
• Use spoken language to develop understanding through speculating, hypothesising, imagining and exploring ideas.
• Participate in discussions, presentations, performances, role-play, improvisations and debate.

Music

• Use their voices expressively and creatively by singing songs and speaking chants and rhymes.

Science

• Observe closely, using simple equipment.
• Use their observations and ideas to suggest answers to questions.
• Gather and record data to help in answering questions.
• Identify and name a variety of everyday materials, including wood, plastic, glass, metal, water, and rock.
• Distinguish between an object and the material from which it is made.

Art and Design

• Use a range of materials creatively to design and make products.
• Use drawing, painting and sculpture to develop and share their ideas, experiences and imagination.

Design and Technology

• Select from and use a range of tools and equipment to perform practical tasks (cutting, shaping, joining & finishing).
• Build structures, exploring how they can be made stronger, stiffer and more stable.

English

• Develop pleasure in reading, motivation to read, vocabulary and understanding by:
  • being encouraged to link what they read or hear read to their own experiences.
  • participating in discussion about what is read to them, taking turns and listening to what others say.
• Use spoken language to develop understanding through speculating, hypothesising, imagining and exploring ideas.
• Participate in discussions, presentations, performances, role play, improvisations and debate.

Science

• Observe closely, using simple equipment.
• Use their observations and ideas to suggest answers to questions.
• Identify and name a variety of everyday materials, including wood, plastic, glass, metal, water, and rock.
• Distinguish between an object and the material from which it is made.

Art and Design

• Use drawing, painting and sculpture to develop and share their ideas, experiences and imagination.

English

• Use spoken language to develop understanding through speculating, hypothesising, imagining and exploring ideas.
• Participate in discussions, presentations, performances, role play, improvisations and debate.
• Listen to and discuss a wide range of poems, stories and non-fiction at a level beyond that at which they can read independently.

Science

• Use their observations and ideas to suggest answers to questions.
• Gather and record data to help in answering questions.

PE

• Perform dances using simple movement patterns.

English

• Write sentences by: saying out loud what they are going to write about; composing a sentence orally before writing it; read aloud their writing clearly enough to be heard by their peers and the teacher.
• Participate in discussions, presentations, performances, role-play, improvisations and debate.