RE

Our RE journey starts with stories from the Old Testament. We will look at some of the most well known stories such as Jonah and the Whale, Daniel and the lion’s den and David and Goliath. We will then move onto exploring the life of Jesus where we will think about the important people and events in his life. We will delve deeper into the stories, thinking about how they can impact our own lives. As we approach Christmas, we will be learning all about advent and the importance of the lead up to the Christmas season. We will be focusing on the symbols of advent and how we can prepare ourselves to celebrate Christmas as Catholics. 

English

We start September with a grammar unit, focusing on the accurate application of our new knowledge. We then move to our first writing unit where we will be creating our own diary entries from the perspective of someone who escaped the Great Fire of London. This is followed by our letter writing unit, where we take on the role of Little Red Riding Hood, sending a letter to a friend. Next is the character description unit, where we will create our own wanted posters for the Big Bad Wolf. 

Maths

During the Autumn term, we will be covering:

Unit 1 - Numbers to 100

Unit 2 - Addition and subtraction (1)

Unit 3 - Addition and subtraction (2)

Unit 4 - Properties of shape

We also start to learn our 2,5 and 10 times tables during this term.

Science

In Science, we will be learning all about materials. Throughout our learning in the Autumn term, we will look at the different properties that materials can have, what makes a material suitable depending on its properties and how the shapes of objects can be changed. We will also be learning the difference between natural and man-made materials and investigating which materials are waterproof. During this topic, we investigate the protective properties of materials with an EGG-speriment which is always lots of fun!

Geography

Our Geography learning starts with learning all about the UK and its countries. We will be thinking about the capital cities as well as features of each of the places. We will also be thinking about a coastal part of the UK and making some comparisons with a particular focus on human and physical features of a coastal part of the UK and Stafford.

History

In History we will learn all about the Great Fire of London. We will make contrasts between life in the 17th Century and life today while gaining experience of using historical evidence to reconstruct the past. We will develop our understanding of cause and consequence, thinking about the positive changes that have occurred since 1666. 

Art

In art, we will study the famous artist, Vincent Van Gogh. We will explore some of his most famous pieces of artwork such as sunflowers and starry night. We will experiment with tone and texture through line drawing to create our own versions of these famous pieces. At the end of the Autumn term, we will create a portrait using the techniques we have learned throughout the unit. 

DT

We will start the autumn term by making healthy wraps using lots of colourful ingredients. We will taste test foods from each food group, deciding on our final ingredients and create a healthy wrap at the end of the unit. During the autumn term we will also start creating money pouches. We will learn how to thread a needle and then using a template, we will cut out our fabric and use a simple running stitch to join two pieces together. We will finish our pouches by adding a fastening and evaluating our final products.

Computing

We will start the term by thinking about how we can keep ourselves and others safe online before moving onto searching the internet and coding. We will be using ‘Purple mash’ to practice our computing skills, which you will be able to access from home with your username and password.

Music

Our first music unit is all about pulse, pitch and rhythm. We will be learning songs based around this theme and will continue to learn to play the glockenspiel to develop our improvisation and composition skills.

RHE/PSHE

During the autumn term, we will be learning about the story from the Gospel of Matthew, when Jesus welcomed all of the little children to come to Him. The five-story sessions encourage children to understand that they are created by God out of love and for love. The children will be learning about rules beyond school, our local environment and jobs within our community. During the second half of the Autumn term, we will be learning about how they are unique and the human life cycle. Towards the end of the term, we will investigate the effect of sugar on our teeth and learn how we can keep them and our whole bodies healthy.

During Autumn 1, our Catholic Virtues are Grateful and Generous and our Catholic Social Teachings are Human Dignity and Stewardship.

During Autumn 2, our Catholic Virtues are Attentive and Discerning and our Catholic Social Teachings are Solidarity and The Common Good.