All Saints Church in Wales Primary School
Term: Autumn Term 2017
The learning theme for this term is: Autumn 1: All About Me!
Autumn 2: Sounds and All Around!
Personal and Social Development, Well
Being and Cultural Diversity:
Class rules, rewards and consequences.
Making school a happy and fair place to be.
Circle time activities: talking about matters that
arise.
Emotions/Feelings how do we make others feel? How do
others make me feel? What makes me happy?
What I would like to learn about? How do I learn?
Exercise and healthy eating / brushing out teeth.
Treating property and people with care. Treating the
environment with care.
SEAL: New Beginnings-new school year, any new
experiences. How do you feel?
SEAL-Getting on and falling out -How can we solve
friendship problems? Being a good friend
Unkind behaviour on purpose or a mistake? Finding out
before reacting.
Welsh identity Welsh flag / map of Wales/welsh objects
/ traditions.
Welsh Language Development
Every day greetings including: Sut wyt ti?
Counting to 10/20.
Reading number words / colour names. Songs:
counting and colour songs.
Shapes and colours
Fruit/Food ffrwyth/bwyd
The Weather- Y Tywydd
Welsh words linked to our topics.
Christmas vocabulary and greetings.
The phrase: Dw in hoffi / I like
Religious Education
The Church-features of church, special services.
Christian celebrations- Harvest celebration: saying
thank you. Christmas celebrations.
The cross and other symbols of Christianity.
All About Jesus: asking questions and finding out.
The Christmas story: focusing on gifts.
The Values of: Creativity and Compassion.
Year/ Blwyddyn: 1
Language, Literacy and Communication Skills
Phonics Jolly Phonics, Identify initial, end and middle letter sounds in,
CVC (Consonant, Vowel, Consonant) words. Reading and spelling CVC
words. Rhyming words. CCVC words and some initial blends plus ch / sh.
The phoneme ee (sheep)
Writing 1. Write simple words / sentences using emergent writing. 2.
Make picture books modeled on text. 3. Use patterned stories as a
model for own writing. 4. Write simple captions and lists. 5. Develop
awareness of capital letters and full stops Handwriting Correct letter
formation / writing on the line/ writing capital letters clearly taller.
Rhyme: identifying rhyming words.
Reading Introduction to group reading and a wide range of reading
games, listening and following the reading. Making choices about books.
Oracy Discussions, using because extensively, beginning to form
opinions, reporting from practical work, Role Play: A Teddy Hospital
and childrens own choice: based on the topic.
Mathematical Development
Number recognition and counting to 20 / to 100.
Ordering numbers from smallest to largest within 10/ 100.
Counting objects reliably.
Addition to 10 / 20 (and beyond.) 1 more, 1 less.
Subtraction within 10 / 20.
2D shapes
Number bonds to 10 i.e. 1 and 9 makes 10, 2 and 8 etc.
Length-using non standard- measures using everyday
objects to measure
Days of the week/Seasons of the year / oclock.
Time: o clock, half past, months and seasons of the
Knowledge and Understanding of the World
year
Ourselves-The senses, parts of the body, Living things,
Mass: weighing and ordering objects of different
healthy living, sound and hearing.
weight
My family, me as a baby, toddler and now,
Christmas in the past, toys now and then, traditions.
Where I live, homes and buildings in the local area.
Different sounds and how they make us feel.
Seasonal Changes: Autumn.
Where in the World?-talking about events from around
the world as and when they happen.
Finding out about: Mary Seacole.
Physical Development
Ourselves / my body/various actions and movements.
Gym: Perform a short movement / sequence of actions.
Going on the adventure trail / large apparatus and
creating (and repeating) a pathway on it.
Working with a partner to create a dance.
Healthy me: exercise and the effects of exercise on
bodies.
Fine manipulative skills: threading, sewing, scissor skills,
using tweezers/tongs.
Creative Development
Art- Colour, colour mixing paint, sketching, use of chalk and various
collage activities: different materials, different techniques.
Activities on craft table linked to the topics/ linked to requests by
the children.
Christmas activities: making decorations.
Music- exploring the sounds of and how to play various instruments,
making own instrument/ shaker.
Learning a wide selection of songs including action songs, fast and
slow songs exploring rhythm and keeping time to a steady beat
clapping or on a musical instrument.
Creative movement-: Opposites Dance childrens own ideas.
Focusing on developing a sense of rhythm, creating actions and
movements, remembering sequences. / Listening skills.
ICT / DCF
2simple software: drawing program.
Making a simple story or information book (HWB).
Use of digital camera.
Saving and retrieving own work on a network (HWB).
With support to use an internet browser.
Use text (with support) to search for information / media
online.
Begin to discuss Internet safety.
Adding name and date to a piece of work. (HWB)
Class computer / iPad activities: ICT is also used to support,
develop and extend learning across and within a range of
activities.

This is a guide of the teaching and learning for the term. The children add their own input which determines
how the learning theme develops.

Ways you can help: Frequently practise the key words in the word tub and share and discuss your childs
reading books. Ensuring correct letter formation when writing, including capital letters, especially when your
child is writing their name. Counting and recognising numbers to 100. Ordering numbers within 10/ 20/ 100.
Writing numbers (correct formation) within 100. Talking about and identifying healthy foods/ meals. Talking
about your family history, the local environment-where we live. Looking for and naming shapes you can see in
objects within the home and when you are out and about. Providing your child with opportunities to speak to
you in Welsh: counting to 10, naming the colours and saying simple phrases i.e. diolch /thank you, Sut wyt ti?
/How are you? Looking for Welsh words within the environment (signs etc.); looking at and reading house
numbers / numbers on signs / posters/ adverts etc. Please take photographs of these and bring into school.
Thank you / diolch.

Some of the childrens ideas / thought for the topic: All About Me.
Finding out about being healthy.
Going on healthy walks, to the park, to the beach/ anywhere!
Finding out about zoos and animals. Having a pet day.
Going more into the Faith Garden to explore, pick things, make a den,
and play different sorts of musical instruments.
We like going to Porthkerry Park.
Finding out more about the Opticians / creating an Opticians in the role play area.
Lego making models of houses/ homes.
Making mountains out of Lego.
Finding out about pyramids and creating pyramids in the sand.
Having more dressing up costumes.
(Having a bag in the book corner with a story book and a matching costume inside.)
Turning the Cwtsh Cymraeg into a Welsh car with pet dragons in the back.
with a story book