Our curriculum

Curriculum Areas

During the Autumn term, we will be focusing on the following areas:

Religious Education - We shall be focusing on the stories of the Old Testament which teaches us stories about God and his special friends. We shall shares stories such as Jonah and the Whale, David and Goliath and Abraham and Issac. 

Maths - We shall be focusing on place value, partitioning numbers to 100 in different ways, addition and subtraction and multiplication and division.

At home you could help your child by: 

-Counting in 1s to 100 forward and backwards

-Practising number bonds to 10 and 20

-Drawing a number using Tens and Ones

-Count in 2s, 5s, 10s and 3s

Literacy

We shall be practising letter formation through handwriting sessions and independent sentence writing skills through focusing on the use of accurate punctuation. We shall learn about different sentence types such as statements and questions and build upon writing expanded noun phrases. We shall also be sharing stories with familiar settings and stories which illustrate and emphasise our Catholic Social Teaching focus of Family and Community.

Building the Kingdom 

In Geography lessons, we are learning about our local area and using our observations to identify human and physical features. We shall be using aerial maps to study our area and develop our understanding of the use of simple maps. 

In Science lessons, we are recapping on our previous learning from Year One through revisiting the seasons and different types of animals, including humans. We shall also be developing our scientific enquiry skills.