Autumn One Curriculum
Religious Education
 Families – God’s love and care for every family
 Belonging – Baptism an invitation to belong to God’s family
 Other Faiths – Judaism – Stories – Abraham and Moses
English
Labels and Captions
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Descriptive words and phrases
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Discuss the purpose of labels
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Writing labels
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Spelling simple words
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Write a caption for an object or a picture
Stories with Familiar Settings
 Reading and discussing stories which are set in key places e.g. park, garden, school,
home...
 Recall key events from a story and answer questions
 Explore familiar themes and characters through improvisation and role-play
Dictionaries
 Name the letters of the alphabet in order
 Discuss the purpose of dictionaries
 Play and sing alphabet songs
 Use dictionaries to collect new vocabulary
Grammar
Children to develop their understanding by:
 Leaving spaces between words
 Joining words and joining clauses using ‘and’
 Beginning to punctuate sentences using a capital letter and a full stop, question mark or
exclamation mark
 Using a capital letter for names of people, places, the days of the week, and the
personal pronoun ‘I’
Spellings
Spelling tests will begin the week commencing Monday 2nd November. Spelling lists will
be given out on a Friday with the spelling test taking place on the following Thursday.
Spelling lists can also be found on the school website.
Mathematics
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Counting to and across 100
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Count forwards and backwards
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Count in 2s, 5s and 10s
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Count, read and write numbers to 100 in numerals
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Read and write numbers in numerals and words to 20
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Identify and represent numbers using objects and pictures
Science
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Everyday materials – Children can:
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Tell the difference between an object and the material from which it is made
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Name a variety of everyday materials, including wood, plastic, glass, metal, water
and rock
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Describe some everyday materials
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Make groups of materials based on what they are like
History
 Clothes – Children can:
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Identify some similarities and differences between ways of life in different
periods
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Sort historical objects from ‘then’ and ‘now’
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Talk, draw or write aspects of the past
 Black History Month – Look significant people and their achievements
Art
 Self – portraits – Children can:
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Use the names of tools, techniques and elements they use in their artwork
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Can say what they like about other people’s artwork
D.T.
 Designing a t-shirt – Children can:
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Design useful, pleasing products for themselves and others based on a brief
design
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Can assess their ideas and products against a design brief
Computing
 E-Safety – Children can understand:
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Keeping their passwords private
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Talk about why it is important to be kind and polite
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Recognise an age appropriate website
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Agree and follow sensible e-safety rules
P.E.
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Dance – Children can:
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Perform with control and co-ordination
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Respond imaginatively to a variety of stimuli
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Can vary dynamics, levels, speed and direction
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Discuss their own and others performance with simple vocabulary
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Understand the need for warm up and cool down
Gymnastics – Children can:
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Copy, remember and repeat simple actions, varying speed and levels
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Begin to select simple actions to construct basic sequences
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Begin to identify the difference between their own performance and that of others
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Understand what is happening to their body during exercise
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Understand the need for warm up and cool down
Music
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Song preparation for welcome assembly
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'Carnival of the Animals' - contrasts loud/quiet, high/low and smooth/jumpy listening to
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Develop a sense of rhythm, structure, style and mood through music and movement
Spanish
Children have two lessons a week with our specialist Spanish teacher, Pachy.