Year 1 and 2 Autumn Term 2025

Before we inform you of activities and events that will be happening in Year 1 and 2 during the current term, we would first of all like to welcome you- we hope that we will all be able to work together in the spirit of our school motto...

'Together with Christ Everyone Achieves More’

Autumn Term Curriculum

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We hope that you have had an enjoyable and restful holiday. Our new Autumn Term topics are called 'Marvellous Me' and 'Brilliant Britain.' 

We will continue to follow our Read, Write, Inc programme and Literacy and Language programme on a daily basis with the children. The children will also be working to improve their grammar, handwriting and spelling. 

Religious Education

The children will participate in weekly Holy times and assemblies as well as weekly lessons based around the life of Jesus. We will also be sending our prayer bag home with the children. This is an opportunity for you to share a special Holy time with your child at home which they can then share with us in school. 

This term we will be learning about... 

The Creation Story

The children will develop an appreciation of themselves and the world around them as part of God’s creation. The children will also reflect on the need to thank and praise God for his many gifts.

Families and celebrations will be our next focus. This unit will develop the children’s knowledge and understanding of what it means to belong to, and celebrate as, a family. Children will learn about the Mass, the stories of the Presentation and Finding of Jesus in the Temple and the Wedding Feast at Cana as important celebrations in the life of the Church and Jesus.

Following this, the children will be learning about the importance of prayer as a special way of spending time with God. We will explore the   vocabulary, actions, places and aids associated with prayer. The children will be learning some important prayers of the Church such as the Lord's Prayer and Glory Be. 

 English

• Read, Write, Inc
• Literacy and Language
• Read, Write, Inc comprehension
• Story time
• Stories connected to our theme 
• Looking at the use of Capital letters, full stops, nouns, adjectives, verbs and adverbs
• Writing letters, instruction texts and newspaper reports
• Sentence structure and use of punctuation

​Throughout all of these units the children will be taught about the writing process and how to :

• Plan their writing
• Compose and rehearse their sentences orally (hold/ build a sentence)
• Organise their writing
• Revise their writing (Does it sound right?)
• Evaluate and edit their work (Does it look right?)
• Publish their work to a high standard

Mathematics

• Number and place value
• Addition and Subtraction
• Multiplication and division
• Properties of shape
• Measures: Mass
• Money
• Statistics

We will also be introducing some new 'fluency' lessons. This will help in supporting the children in remembering known number facts.

Science

The focus in science this term will be 'Ourselves'.

 This half term we will be learning about:

· How have we changed?

· Our bodies

· What can we hear?

· Our senses

Geography and History

This half term we will be covering objectives from the History KS1 Programmes of Study.

We will be learning about 'Our Families'

Our key enquiry questions will be:

Who am I and who is my family?

What key events have happened in my life so far?

How is my life different to the lives of my grandparents?

What features are within my local area?

How can we use aerial photographs top complete or construct a sketch map?

PE

Mrs Collins' class= Monday 

Miss Doherty's class= Monday

Mr Leybourne's class= Tuesday

Pupils will explore travelling actions, movement skills and balancing. They will understand why it is important to count to music and use this in their dances. Pupils will copy and repeat actions linking them together to make short dance phrases. Pupils will work individually and with a partner to create ideas in relation to the theme. Pupils will be given the opportunity to perform and also to provide feedback,  beginning to use dance terminology to do so.

Music

We will be following the Charanga Music scheme.  As well as learning to sing, play, improvise and compose music, the children will listen and appraise other songs by other artists linked to a theme. Throughout the lessons the children will learn about pulse, rhythm and pace. They will also develop their skills of appraising music. 

Computing

In computing we will be ensuring that all children are familiar with using our school online platforms, logging in, online safety and the correct use of computing equipment.

We also use our computing equipment regularly to support our learning in other subjects e.g. This half term the children will be using ipads to research different continents and countries.

Art and Design Technology

This term we are having an Art focus...

Pupils will explore various different artists and different techniques to create ‘Self Portraits.’ We will be using a variety of different media.

Please ensure that your child attends school every day and arrives on time. Classroom doors open at 8.30 am and the register will be taken at 8.45 am, anyone arriving after this time will be late.

Please read with your child daily and write a comment in their reading diary every night to show

that they have been reading at home. 

All children will take part in PE lessons.

Mrs Collins' class: MONDAY

Miss Doherty's class: MONDAY

Mr Leybourne's class: TUESDAY

Please ensure your child wears their PE kit to school on the day they have PE.

PLEASE ENSURE THAT CHILDREN ARE ABLE TO REMOVE THEIR OWN EARRINGS FOR P.E. STUDS ONLY PLEASE.

We love reading! 

Click on the image to go to Oxford Owl. Follow the instructions sent by your class teacher to access the amazing library of eBooks.

Please check your DB Primary account every day for new tasks and messages from your teacher. 

Please look at the Religious Education page to find your RE lessons.