Explore What We Learn:
Click to Expand our Year 1 and 2 English Curriculum:
Autumn Term
Spring Term
Summer Term
  • Poetry Focus
  • Acrostic animal poems
  • Alliteration
  • Fiction Focus
  • "The Day the Crayons Quit" by Oliver Jeffers
  • Description – adjectives and similes

  • "The Owl who was Afraid of the Dark" by Jill Tomlinson
  • Overcoming a fear
  • Story openings and endings
  • Non-Fiction Focus
  • Letters to and from characters using the first- and third-person tense
  • Diary entries from the perspective of story characters.
  • Poetry Focus
  • "The Sound Collector" by Roger McGough
  • Rhyming couplets
  • Onomatopoeic words
  • Fiction focus:
  • "Not Now, Bernard" by David McKee
  • Description – use of adjectives, verbs and adverbs, synonyms

  • "Amazing Grace" by Mary Hoffman
  • Story openings and endings – time conjunctions, adverbs, sentence starters
  • Non-fiction focus:
  • Non-chronological reports – using formal language, titles, subheadings, pictures, captions, diagrams, labels, conjunctions and apostrophes for possession
  • Instructions – use of imperative verbs, ordinal numbers, time conjunctions and adverbs
  • Poetry Focus
  • "If I Were a Hawk" by Clare Bevan
  • Identifying and using alliteration in poetry
  • Rhyming couplets
  • Using an apostrophe for omitted letters
  • Fiction focus:
  • "The Dark" by Lemony Snicket
  • Description – use of adjectives, verbs and adverbs, repetition, and creating suspense

  • "Fantastic Mr Fox" by Roald Dahl
  • Dialogue – direct speech, inverted commas, synonyms and words for said and ambitious word choices
  • Non-fiction focus:
  • Biography – adjectives and time conjunctions when writing in the past tense. Understanding sentence types such as statements, facts and opinions
  • Persuasive Text – use of imperative verbs, key facts, slogans, similes and alliteration to create an eye-catching leaflet
Click to Expand our Year 1 and 2 Maths Curriculum:
Autumn Term
Spring Term
Summer Term (Year 1)
Summer Term (Year 2)
  • Number: Place Value
  • Sort objects
  • Count objects
  • Represent objects
  • Recognise numbers as words
  • Count on from any number
  • Finding 1 more and 1 less
  • Count backwards within 10
  • Compare groups by matching
  • Fewer, more, same
  • Less than, greater than, equal to
  • Compare numbers
  • Order objects and numbers
  • Using a number line
  • Number: Addition and Subtraction
  • The part-whole model
  • Number sentences
  • Fact families – addition facts
  • Number bonds within 10
  • Number bonds to 10
  • Solving addition and subtraction problems
  • Subtraction – find a part
  • Fact families
  • Subtraction – taking away/crossing out
  • Subtraction on a number line
  • Shape
  • Recognise and name 3-D shapes
  • Sort 3-D shapes
  • Recognise and name 2-D shapes
  • Sort 2-D shapes
  • Patterns with 2-D and 3-D shapes
  • Place Value (within 20)
  • Count within 20
  • Understand 10
  • Understand 11, 12 and 13
  • Understand 14, 15 and 16
  • Understand 17, 18 and 19
  • Understand 20
  • 1 more, 1 less
  • The number line to 20
  • Use a number line to 20
  • Estimate on a number line to 20
  • Compare numbers to 20
  • Order numbers to 20
  • Addition and Subtraction (within 20)
  • Add by counting on within 20
  • Add ones using number bonds
  • Find and make number bonds to 20
  • Doubles
  • Near doubles
  • Subtract ones using number bonds
  • Subtraction – counting back
  • Subtraction – finding the difference
  • Related facts
  • Missing number problems
  • Place Value (within 50)
  • Count from 20 to 50
  • 20, 30, 40 and 50
  • Count by making groups of tens
  • Groups of tens and ones
  • Partition into tens and ones
  • The number line to 50
  • Estimate on a number line to 50
  • 1 more, 1 less
  • Mass and Volume
  • Heavier and lighter
  • Measure mass
  • Compare mass
  • Full and empty
  • Compare volume
  • Measure capacity
  • Compare capacity
  • Multiplication and Division
  • Count in 2s
  • Count in 10s
  • Count in 5s
  • Recognise equal groups
  • Add equal groups
  • Make arrays
  • Make doubles
  • Make equal groups - grouping
  • Multiplication and Division
  • Count in 2s
  • Count in 10s
  • Count in 5s
  • Recognise equal groups
  • Add equal groups
  • Make arrays
  • Make doubles
  • Make equal groups – grouping
  • Make equal groups – sharing
  • Fractions
  • Recognise half of an object or shape
  • Find a half of an object or a shape
  • Recognise a half of a quantity
  • Find a half of a quantity
  • Recognise a quarter of an object or shape
  • Find a quarter of an object or shape
  • Recognise a quarter of a quantity
  • Find a quarter of a quantity
  • Geometry: Position and Direction
  • Describe turns
  • Describe position – left and right
  • Describe position – forwards and backwards
  • Describe position – above and below
  • Ordinal numbers
  • Place Value – Within 100
  • Count from 50 to 100
  • Tens to 100
  • Partition into tens and ones
  • The number line to 100
  • 1 more, 1 less
  • Compare numbers with the same number of tens
  • Compare any two numbers
  • Money
  • Unitising
  • Recognise coins
  • Recognise notes
  • Count in coins
  • Time
  • Before and after
  • Months of the year
  • Hours, minutes and seconds
  • Tell the time to the hour
  • Tell the time to the half hour
  • Multiplication and Division
  • Multiplication sentences
  • Use arrays
  • Make equal groups – grouping
  • Make equal groups – sharing
  • Divide by 2
  • Odd and Even numbers
  • Divide by 10
  • Divide by 5
  • The 5 and 10 times tables
  • Fractions
  • Equal and unequal parts
  • Recognise a half
  • Recognise a quarter
  • Find a quarter
  • Recognise a third
  • Find a third
  • Find the whole
  • Unit fractions
  • Non-unit fractions
  • Recognise the equivalence of a half and two quarters
  • Recognise three-quarters
  • Find three-quarters
  • Count in fractions up to a whole
  • Geometry: Position and Direction
  • Language of position
  • Describe movement
  • Describe turns
  • Describe movement and turns
  • Shape patterns with turns
  • Statistics
  • Make tally charts
  • Tables
  • Block Diagrams
  • Draw and interpret pictograms (1 – 1)
  • Draw and interpret pictograms (2, 5 and 10)
  • Time
  • O’clock and half past
  • Quarter past and quarter to
  • Tell time past the hour
  • Tell time to the hour
  • Tell the time to the nearest 5 minutes
  • Minutes in an hour
  • Hours in a day
Click to Expand our Year 1 and 2 Science Curriculum:
Autumn Term
Spring Term
Summer Term
  • Identify and compare the uses of a variety of everyday materials, including wood, metal, plastic, glass, brick, and rock, paper and cardboard.
  • Find out how the shapes of solid objects made from some materials can be changed by squashing, bending, twisting and stretching.
  • Compare how things move on different surfaces.
  • Identifying what a seed needs to germinate, grow and stay healthy
  • The importance of hygiene
  • Exercise and a healthy diet
  • Basic needs for survival in animals and humans
  • Understand that animals have offspring and that not all offspring resemble the adult animal
  • Identify that some animals have live young whilst others lay eggs
  • Plants
  • Identify what plants need to stay healthy
  • Identify what a seed needs to germinate
  • Identify what plants need to grow
  • Describe how flowers grow
  • Compare flowers and plants to identify similarities and differences
  • Name the different parts of a plant e.g. root, stem, trunk, leaf, flowers
  • Identify and name a variety of common wild and garden plants
  • Identify and name a variety of deciduous and evergreen trees
  • Living Things and Their Habitats
  • Describe how animals obtain their food from plants and other animals
  • Identify and name different sources of food
  • Create a simple food chain for habitats in my local environment
  • Accurately describe a habitat and micro-habitat
  • Identify and name a variety of plants and animals in their habitats or micro-habitats
  • Describe how animals and plants depend on each other
  • Describe how certain animals are suited to their habitats
  • Describe how habitats provide for the basic needs of animals and plants
  • Identify that most living things live in suitable habitats
  • Compare the differences between things that are living, dead and things that have never been alive
Click to Expand our Year 1 and 2 Art and DT Curriculum:
Autumn Term
Spring Term
Summer Term
  • Art
  • Students will explore the use of chalks and oil pastels for blending colours.
  • Design and Technology
  • Students will explore wheels and axles and how they work.
  • Students will use cutting, folding and joining techniques as well as papier mâché to design and create fire engines.
  • Art
  • Students will explore the use of colour and texture in their artwork using a range of colour palettes and different techniques for applying colour.
  • Students will be introduced to a variety of artists, techniques and styles and use these to influence their own creations.
  • Artists the students explore include Mondrian, Rothko, Pollock and Kandinsky.
  • Art
  • Children will produce different pieces of artwork by:
  • Understanding that we can use different media to capture the nature of things we find
  • Experimenting with tools and surfaces
  • Collecting, sorting and arranging natural objects for photography in the style of Andy Goldsworthy
  • Painting with home-made tools
Click to Expand our Year 1 and 2 Humanities Curriculum:
Autumn Term
Spring Term
Summer Term
  • History
  • To understand about events beyond living memory that are significant nationally or globally
  • The Great Fire of London
  • Geography
  • Locational Knowledge
  • Can name and locate key landmarks of the local area
  • Can describe the local area’s characteristics/features e.g. produce a list of human and physical geography
  • Can describe these features and locate them on a map using images or drawings
  • Place Knowledge
  • Can make observations about, and describe, the local area and its physical and human geography
  • History
  • To talk about main events and people from the periods studied.
  • Mary Seacole, Florence Nightingale and nursing as a profession.
  • Geography
  • Locational Knowledge
  • I can observe the local area and its human and physical geography
  • Place Knowledge
  • I can compare a small area of the UK and a non-European country (Jamaica)
  • I can make observations about geographical similarities and differences
  • Geographical Skills and Fieldwork
  • I can use simple compass directions.
  • History
  • To sequence dates on a timeline
  • Begin to understand that dates can be used to describe events
  • Understand how historians find out about the past in different ways
  • Compare images of past and present
  • Compare sources of information about the past
  • Explain and record events and actions from the past
  • Geography
  • To identify North, East, South and West on a compass
  • To observe the geography of the surrounding environment
  • Draw simple maps using keys
  • Use world maps, atlases and compasses to identify countries, continents and oceans
  • To identify the general location of animals and foods across the world’s continents
Click to Expand our Year 1 and 2 ICT Curriculum:
Autumn Term
Spring Term
Summer Term
  • Creating Media – Digital Painting
  • To use paint tools to draw a picture
  • To use the shape and line tools
  • To make careful choices when painting a digital picture
  • Explain that different tools do different jobs
  • Use a computer on my own to paint a picture
  • Programming – Moving a Robot
  • To explain what a given command will do
  • Predict the outcome of commands on a device
  • Combining ‘forwards’ and ‘backwards’ commands to make a sequence
  • To use a range of directional commands
  • Plan a simple program
  • To find more than one solution to a problem
  • Creating Media
  • To use shape tools and line tools
  • To use a computer to paint a digital picture
  • To describe what different freehand tools do
  • Programming
  • To explain what a given command will do
  • To combine directional commands to make sequences
  • To plan a simple program
  • Digital Music
  • Identify simple differences in pieces of music
  • To identify that there are patterns in music
  • To experiment with sound using a computer
  • To use a computer to create a musical pattern
  • To create music for a purpose
  • Programming Quizzes
  • Explain that a sequence of commands has a start
  • Predict and change the outcomes of a sequence of commands
  • To create a program using a given design
  • To change designs using a range of backgrounds and characters
  • To create a program based upon my own design including algorithms, sequences of blocks and images
  • To evaluate and debug my program
Click to Expand our Year 1 and 2 PSHEE Curriculum:
Autumn Term
Spring Term
Summer Term
  • Being Me in My World and Celebrating Differences
  • I can identify some of my hopes and fears for this year
  • I understand the rights and responsibilities for being a member of my class and school
  • I can listen to other people and contribute my own ideas about rewards and consequences
  • I understand how following the Class Charter will help me and others learn
  • I can recognise the choices I make and understand the consequences
  • I am starting to understand that sometimes people make assumptions about boys and girls (stereotypes)
  • I understand some ways in which boys and girls are similar and feel good about this
  • I understand some ways in which boys and girls are different and accept that this is OK
  • I understand that bullying is sometimes about difference
  • I can recognise what is right and wrong and know how to look after myself
  • I know some ways to make new friends
  • I can tell you some ways I am different from my friends
  • Dreams and Goals
  • Identify my successes and achievements and know how this makes me feel
  • Tell someone some of my strengths as a learner
  • Understand how working with other people can help me to learn
  • Work with other people to solve problems and express how it feels to be a part of a group
  • Know how contributing to the success of a group feels
  • Healthy Me
  • Know what I need to keep my body healthy
  • Explain what relaxed/stressed means and identify things that make me feel relaxed/stressed
  • Understand how medicines work in my body and how important it is to use them safely
  • Sort foods into the correct food groups, know which foods my body needs every day to keep me healthy and know which foods are most nutritious
  • Relationships
  • Identify the different members of my family and understand my relationship with each of them
  • Accept that everyone’s family is different and understand that most people value their family
  • Know which types of physical contact I like and don’t like and talk about this
  • Identify some of the things that cause conflict with friends
  • Demonstrate using positive problem-solving techniques to resolve conflict
  • Understand that sometimes it is good to keep a secret and sometimes it is not good to keep a secret
  • Understand how it feels to trust someone
  • Recognise and appreciate people who can help me in my family, school and my community
  • Express my appreciation for people in my special relationships
  • Changing Me
  • Tell you about the natural processes of growing from young to old
  • Recognise how my body has changed since I was a baby and where I am on the continuum from young to old
  • Introduce the concept of male and female gender stereotypes
  • Identify differences between males and females
  • Explore differences between males and females and to understand how this is part of the lifecycle
  • Describe the physical differences between males and females
Click to Expand our Year 1 and 2 RE Curriculum:
Autumn Term
Spring Term
Summer Term
  • Living by rules
  • To understand that we need rules in all parts of our society, which keep people safe.
  • To understand that rules are given because of the love and care that the rule giver has for that particular group of people.
  • To explore the first 3 commandments of the Bible’s Old Testament which help us to understand the character of God and that He is someone we would want to obey and take rules from.
  • To explore the Islamic rules of prayer – the second pillar of Islam.
  • Being regardful of suffering
  • To begin to understand suffering in terms of its physical and emotional intensity.
  • To begin to understand how Jesus relieved suffering.
  • To begin to understand how people of faith respond to suffering (in our city).
  • Being temperate and exercising self-discipline
  • To understand that Christians believe that their behaviour can be seen by God
  • To show that people of faith draw an inner contentment from their relationship with or understanding of God.
  • To begin to understand the choice of fasting as a sign of willingness to put God first by controlling one’s feelings (e.g. Ramadan).
  • Sharing and being generous
  • To begin to explore the British tradition of giving Christmas gifts.
  • To begin to understand that Jesus’ life was planned from before he was born.
  • To begin to consider why Christians give gifts at Christmas.
  • Creating Unity and Harmony
  • Begin to see beyond stereotypes and begin to understand common humanity.
  • Raise awareness that one of the most important principles in Christianity is to love others, no matter who they are.
  • To explore the strong messages which are learnt during the Sikh Langar.
  • Participating and Willing to Lead
  • Explore team membership in a practical and fun way.
  • Explore the Christian concept that each individual has a particular role within the church and that each is essential.
  • Caring for Others, Animals and the Environment
  • Encourage explicit appreciation of the natural world and the people in it.
  • Encourage appreciation of the vulnerability of the natural world.
  • Explore the relationship between Sikhs and the community.
  • Being Merciful and Forgiving
  • Explore and define the concepts of mercy and forgiveness.
  • Explore the nature of God’s mercy and forgiveness and think about the application to our lives.
  • Explore the responsibility of those who are forgiven to be forgiving.
  • Being Silent and Attentive to, and Cultivating a Sense for the Sacred and Transcendent
  • Encourage and practice listening
  • Begin to understand the importance of quiet in a place of worship
  • Being Reflective and Self Critical
  • Establish that perfection is not a static concept
  • Consider the Christian belief that a relationship with Jesus initiated changes in behaviour
  • Apply the moral teaching of a parable to the children’s own life experience
  • Being Imaginative and Explorative
  • Encourage the use of imagination
  • To explore different ideas of God
  • Explore responding to beauty in a variety of forms
  • Explore the beauty of Adhan (the call to prayer)
Curriculum Overview:

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Students have two PE lessons each week. On days that students have PE they should arrive at school in their school uniform with their PE kits in a bag, that they can change in too.

Students also have one Music and one French lesson each week.

Homework:

Each week students are given a piece of Maths and Literacy homework, or a piece of Topic homework to be completed over a few weeks.

Please continue to use Mathletics, Bug Club, Times Table Rockstars and Nessy at home.

Students will also be given weekly spellings to learn and are expected to read at least five times a week.

Homework is set every Friday.

The deadline for this homework is Wednesday the following week.

Reading books are changed on Fridays.