Autumn Term Planning 2017 | St Philip's Catholic Primary School

Curriculum Planning

Autumn Term 2017

We share all our learning objectives for each class over the coming term. This information is updated termly and hopefully gives you an insight into what your child will be learning in the upcoming months. If you would like further information, please do not hesitate to speak to your child’s class teacher.

Reception EYFS	Objectives Autumn 2017
Communication, language & Literacy	Responding to others; use of imaginative language; retelling traditional tales; letter formation; CVC reading and writing; digraphs in reading; fairy tales; poetry/
Maths	Numbers to 20 and beyond; estimating quantities; measures; data handling.
Understanding the world	Winter; weather; growth; Spring.
Personal, social & emotional development	Being a good friend; showing respect to others’ beliefs and cultures.
Creative development	Watercolours; materials; storytelling.
Physical development	Games – rolling and kicking; gymnastics – travelling; dance – weather-themed; developing fine motor skills; healthy eating.
RE	Getting to know Jesus; Sorrow and joy

Year 1	Objectives Autumn 2017
English	Traditional tales – Goldilocks and the Three Bears; poetry – Things Found in a Wizard’s Pocket; rhyming – Room on the Broom; stories from a range of cultures – Meerkat Mail; non-fiction – reports.
Maths	Time – to the hour and half past the hour; bar charts; 2D and 3D shapes; fractions – halves and quarters; doubling; division; word problems involving addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.
Science	Everyday materials; seasonal changes.
Humanities	Geography – natural and physical features; the United Kingdom (four countries and their capitals).
Art & DT	Designing, building and evaluating a house for The Three Little Pigs; primary and secondary colours.
RE	Families and celebrations – understanding what it means to belong to our church family, that God is our father in heaven, and to hear how Jesus’ family took him to the Temple; Following Jesus – Hear how some of his first disciples and consider how we choose friends and understanding that Jesus died on Good Friday and that God raised him from the dead three days later.
French	Learn basic greetings; animals and pets.

Year 2	Objectives Autumn 2017
English	Traditional tales/fairy tales; stories from other cultures; different stories from the same author, focusing on Jane Hissey and the Old Bear stories; non-fiction writing – nocturnal animals; narrative story-telling; poetry.
Maths	Place value (tens and ones); solving addition and subtraction questions including 2-step word problems; multiplication and division within the 2, 5 and 10 times tables; multiplication and division word problems; repeated addition of 3’s and 4’s (basic times table work); telling the time to five minute intervals; sorting and recognising 2D shapes; properties of 2D and 3D shapes; measurement (cm, money, capacity); fractions of shape, set and number.
Science	Living things and their habitats; plants.
Humanities	Geography – local area comparison with Daintree Rainforest.
Art	Urban art and printmaking skills.
RE	The Good News – understanding that Jesus had the power to turn sorrow into joy; The Mass – learning about the traditions within our faith.
Computing	Computer algorithms and game design
PE

Year 3	Objectives Autumn 2017
English	Stone Age Boy by Satoshi Kitamura. We will explore the texts through drama, performance, poetry and the written word.
Maths	Place value; reasoning; 3, 4 and 8 times tables and corresponding divisions; subtraction and division.
Science	Light; Rocks and Fossils
Humanities	From the Stone Age to the Iron Age
Computing	Computer networks
Art	Drawing and shading
RE
Music	Glockenspeil
PE	Dance

Year 4	Objectives Autumn 2017
English	Playscripts; non-chronological report; poetry; library skills; dictionaries; grammar.
Maths	Place value, ordering and rounding; mental calculations; paper/pencil procedures – addition, subtraction, multiplication and division; angles; length; perimeter and area.
Science	States of matter; living things and their habitats; healthy eating.
Humanities	Geography – rivers; geography skills – atlas work with continents and oceans; Europe – countries and captials; grid reference.
Art & DT	QCA Unit – Take A Seat; working with fabrics; tie-dye; talking textiles (QCA Unit 5C)
RE	Jesus the Teacher; Jesus the Saviour
French	Pets and animals.
Physical Education	Tag rugby, basketball/netball; gymnastics (jumping and flight).
Computing	Scratch game design; We Are Weather Presenters – iPad work to create weather reports.
Music	Violin

Year 5	Objectives Autumn 2017
English	Myths and legends; The Highwayman’; to use a range of sentence types effectively, being able to choose them appropriately; continue to develop the use of advanced of punctuation such as colons and semi-colons; to develop our use of commas, brackets and dashes to provide extra information in sentences.
Maths	Fractions; decimals; percentages; angles.
Science	Properties and changes to materials; animals including humans.
Humanities	Geography – looking at fair trade and North America; local area history study – Samuel Oldknow.
Art & DT	Screen printing; moving toys – children will design, create and evaluate their own moving toy.
RE	Inspirational people.
Computing	Developing our coding skills through the use of variables as we mimic computer games and then make our own.
Music	Music appraisal; basic musical notation.
PE	Football; TAG rugby; swimming.

Year 6	Objectives Autumn 2017
English	Private Peaceful by Michael Morpurgo; discussion texts; advanced level punctuation; Alan Peat sentences; thesaurus work.
Maths	Re-cap 2D and 3D shapes; angle work; geometry including perimeter, area and volume; ratio and proportion; statistics; data interpretation and constructing graphs.
Science	Animals including humans; light.
Humanities	Geography – South America.
Art	Printing; textile skills.
RE	Jesus, the Bread of Life; the Passover; elements of Mass; the miracles of Jesus, the Passion and His death.
Computing	Coding – using Scratch to make and develop games.
Music	Music appraisal and basic music notation.
PE	Outdoor games.