St Paul's Catholic Primary School

                                                                                                  Meet the staff
                                   

                                    Miss Jones                                               Mrs Beardmore

General Information
PE days are Monday and Wednesday.
New reading books will be sent home once a week.
 Please can all uniform/PE kit be clearly named.

Drinks bottles to be brought in and clearly named. Children can refill them throughout the day. Bottles must contain water.

Virtues: Eloquent and Truthful

Eloquent means to communicate clearly. We are learning to be eloquent and truthful in what we say about ourselves and others around the world. 

Jesus tells us "The truth will set you free." (John 8:32)

 Catholic Social Teaching: Family and Community

 God made us to be part of communities, families and countries, so all people can share and help each other. We are called to work for the good of all people. 

Our Class saint is St Bernadette. 

Our Lady appeared to  St Bernadette in Lourdes 18 times!

Our Lady asked St Bernadette to drink from the dirty water in the stream. St Bernadette did so without questioning and the next day came back to find the water was clean. It was later found that the water had miraculous healing powers making Lourdes a place of pilgrimage for many people.  

Our Lady told St Bernadette that she wanted a chapel to be built in Lourdes. St Bernadette was strong to her faith even when others questioned her. Due to her love for God and loyalty to her faith she convinced others to build the chapel which is now visited by millions of people each year. 

We are going to use Bernadette example for us this year.

Maths: Our topic is place value.

Ideas for home

• Counting forwards and backwards.
• 1 more and 1 less.
• practice writing numbers the correct way. 

Phonics:
We learnt 44 sounds in Reception. We will be learning all of the phase 5 graphemes. 

Reading once a night with your child will massively help to support their progress during Year 1!

English:
Our class will be reading "I want my hat back."

This book is about a naughty rabbit who takes a bears favourite hat! The bear meets all the animals of the forest to question them on who has taken his hat. 

Ideas for home

• Practice writing sentences with a capital letter and full stop.
• Letter formation.
• Use phonics to help sound out longer words. 

RE
Our Re unit is Creation. We will learn how God created the world in 7 days. We will praise God's creation through class prayer and discuss why it is important to look after God's creation. 

Science
No science for the first half term.

History 

We are learning about the prehistoric times. 

Geography

We are learning about the UK.

Art
In Art our new topic is called colour. 

Music 
In Music we are learning about tempo, dynamics, beat and rhythm.