St Paul's Catholic Primary School

                                                                                                  Meet the staff
                                   

                                    Miss Jones                                               Mrs Beardmore

General Information
PE days are Monday and Thursday.
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: Curious and Active

 We will be curious in our learning. Throughout the year we will pray for those around the world facing a variety of different struggles. We can be active in the ways we help others. We will discuss how we can support those in our community.

 Catholic Social Teaching: Dignity of the human person

 We will be learning about the story of the Good Samaritan and thinking about how God created us and how we can treat others with dignity. The Good Samaritan recognised the dignity in others and cared for his life (Luke 10:25-37)                            

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: We are learning about place value in numbers 1 to 20. 

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:
The children will be reading Supertato, this continues with their previous English topic of superheros from reception. This is done to help give the children confidence for their first writing topic in Year 1.

RE
Our Re unit is creation. We will be reading from the bible the story of how God created the earth and Adam and Eve. We will learn about St Francis of Assisi and write prayers to God to thank him for his creations. 

Science
In science we are learning about the five senses and how they play a role in helping us in our daily lives.

History 
Our new topic is called Long Ago. This covers prehistoric, bronze age, iron age and the stone age. 

Geography

We are learning about the seven Continents.

Art
In Art our new topic is called Style. We will be learning about the different techniques that artists use to create paintings.

Music 
In Music we are learning about dynamics.