Autumn Term Overview

Every day we focus on the essentials: Reading, Writing, Maths and Science. Each week we also study Physical Education, Religious Education and Personal, Social and Emotional topics. Each term we go deeply into subjects such as Art, History, Geography and Design and Technology. We also study Music and Computing. 

Here is an overview of the Autumn Term:

English:

Poetry - Acrostic Poems

Non Fiction - Information Texts

Fiction - Good overcomes Bad

Maths:

Place Value

Addition and Subtraction

Fractions

Shape

History/Geography:

How would Robert Falcon Scott's journey be different today?

Oceans and Continents

Science:

Animals including Humans

Living Things and their Habitats

DT

Chairs for the Elf on the shelf.

R.E

What does it mean to be Muslim?

What does it mean to be Christian?

PHSE:

Being me in my World

Celebrating Difference

Computing:

Algorithms and debugging.

PE:

RealPE Unit 1

Tools for learning

Pupils use the following tools to help them learn more and remember more.

These are examples from year 1.

1. Knowledge Organiser - pupils use this tool to understand what knowledge they will learn.

2. Tiered Vocabulary - pupils use this tool to identify the vocabulary that they will learn and how to organise it into words they use every day, words they use generally and words that are specific to this topic.

3. Graphic Schema - pupils use this tool to help them make links in learning.