English Year One Planning

Discover some schemes of work, lesson plans, classroom worksheets and interactive activities to develop skills in English in Year One for Key Stage One covering a range of fiction, non-fiction and poetry topics and themes

  • Buses, Trains, Planes

    Buses, Trains, Planes

    Select patterned language to use when writing poems describing ways of travelling when making different journeys

  • Transport Poems

    Transport Poems

    Read and respond to poems about different ways to travel using a range of transportation vehicles

  • Family Visit

    Family Visit

    Read and write recounts of a family visit to a special location that also includes weather information

  • Weather Postcards

    Weather Postcards

    Read and write recounts to use on postcards reporting the weather experienced on different family holidays

  • Space Flight

    Space Flight

    Change and adapt the sequence of events in a narrative story about a journey that happens in a fantasy world

  • Family Dictionary

    Family Dictionary

    Read and write dictionary entries to define topic and vocabulary words about types of food that families could buy when going shopping

  • Family Problems

    Family Problems

    Compose and publish a story about how families might experience and fix problems in their homes

  • Family Scenes

    Family Scenes

    Suggest and record some of the different events that might come before and after a range of scenes in a narrative story about things that can happen in a family

  • Family Households

    Family Households

    Investigate and respond to settings, characters and plot events in stories about family life and parents

  • Family Homes

    Family Homes

    Practise writing a range of sentences to describe how families might use different rooms in their homes related to some of the things that happened in a story with a familiar setting

  • Wild Things

    Wild Things

    Explore narrative settings and predict events in a story set in a fantasy world, investigate the spellings of different words with tch endings and practise joining pairs of sentences using the conjunction and

  • Handa’s Surprise

    Handa’s Surprise

    Investigate and describe the use of patterned language and narrative events in a story from another culture

  • Shape Matching

    Shape Matching

    Identify, describe and compare different 2D shapes by their matching individual properties including the number of sides, vertices and lines of symmetry

  • Buses, Trains, Planes

    Buses, Trains, Planes

    Select patterned language to use when writing poems describing ways of travelling when making different journeys

  • Toy Masses

    Toy Masses

    Explain and model how to measure, record and compare the mass of some different toys and games using scales, bucket balances and symbols for greater than and less than

  • Seaside Holidays

    Seaside Holidays

    Describe and compare how families enjoyed seaside holidays together in the past with similar events and experiences enjoyed by families today