Category: Our Classes

This term, through Relationship and Health Education (RHE), the children will learn about healthy relationships through the Ten: Ten Life to The Full resources.

KS1 Module One: Created and Loved by God explores the individual. Rooted in the teaching that we are created by God out of love and for love, it helps children to develop an understanding of the importance of valuing themselves as the basis for personal relationships:

Unit 1 – Religious Understanding introduces children to the story from the Gospel of Matthew, when Jesus welcomed all of the little children to come to Him. The five-story sessions encourage children to understand that they are created by God out of love and for love. Children will revisit this Gospel story at the end of this Module.

Building on this knowledge, Unit 2 – Me, My Body, My Health encourages children to celebrate similarities and differences between people, including our God-given bodies and the things they enable us to do! Teaching also includes maintaining personal hygiene and the physical differences between boys and girls, including learning the names of external body parts.

Over the three sessions of Unit 3 – Emotional Well-Being, children will meet presenters Jayden and Josie and fictional character Super Susie. They will help children to understand and articulate their own changing feelings and how other people’s feelings might differ from theirs. Children will learn how they can manage their feelings and about the consequences of their actions.

Unit 4 – Life Cycles returns to the Gospel story from Unit 1, to show that God created us to follow the cycle of life and He loves us at every stage. Children will learn about the specifics of the human life cycle and celebrate how they have already changed and grown.

KS1 Module Three: Created to Live in Community explores the individual’s relationship with the wider world. Here we explore how human beings are relational by nature and are called to love others in the wider community through service, through dialogue and through working for the Common Good:

In Unit 1 – Religious Understanding children will hear the story of The Good Samaritan and will be introduced to the concept of the Trinity – God as a three in one community of love – and think about what the Trinity means for them. This is a simple teaching that we will return to in more complexity in later years. These stories show children that God made us to be in loving relationships with one another. 

Unit 2 – Living in the Wider World helps children to learn about the different local and global communities that they are part of, and what rights and responsibilities come with belonging to these communities.

This term, we will be focusing on the Pentecost in our RE learning. Each of us, by the way we live our lives, the way we treat others, and by our words and actions, show if we have an attitude of service.

Often, we are especially influenced by those whose actions speak powerfully of a life of service.

Christians believe that the Spirit of God is active in each person and, in a special way, in the community of believers, which is the Church.  It is the work of the Spirit to enable people to hear God’s message and to live Jesus’ way of service.

Word of God

“The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to bring Good News to the poor.  He has sent me to proclaim release to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to let the oppressed go free, to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favour.” 

Luke 4: 18-19

Catechism of the Catholic Church

“Those, who with God’s help, have welcomed Christ’s call and freely responded to it, are urged on by love of Christ to proclaim the Good News everywhere in the world.  This treasure, received from the apostles, has been faithfully guarded by their successors.  All Christ’s faithful are called to hand it on from generation to generation, by professing the faith, by living it in fraternal sharing, and by celebrating it in liturgy and prayer.” 

(CCC Prologue 3)

Prayer and Reflection

Father, pour out your Spirit upon your people,
and grant us a new vision of your glory,
a new faithfulness to your Word
and a new consecration to your service, 
that your love may grow among us,
and your kingdom come:
through Christ our Lord. 
Amen.
(Prayer of preparation for Vatican II)

During this topic we will explore:

How our networks of friendships and relationships enable human beings to live together.  When a child’s power to reach out, trust and make friends is diminished, they may suffer the effects for a lifetime.  Both children and adults have to discover their ability to reach out and repair what has been damaged.

If human beings are to live together in relationships, there is always a need for reconciliation.

We will learn:

Christians believe that, in Jesus Christ, the world has been reconciled to God.  Through and in Christ, every human being is offered the power to reach out in forgiveness and peace, to receive and to offer reconciliation.

St. Paul in his letter to the Ephesians, wrote:

“But now in Christ Jesus, you that used to be so far apart from us have been brought very close, by the blood of Christ.  For he is the peace between us, and has made the two into one and broken down the barrier which used to keep them apart, actually destroying in his own person the hostility caused by the rules and decrees of the Law.” Ephesians 2:14-15

“It is called the Sacrament of Reconciliation, because it imparts to the sinner the love of God who reconciles: ‘Be reconciled to God’.  He who lives by God’s merciful love is ready to respond to the Lord’s call: ‘Go; first be reconciled to your brother’…

Indeed the Sacrament of Reconciliation with God brings about a true ‘spiritual resurrection’, restoration of the dignity and blessings of the life of the children of God, of which the most precious is friendship with God.”  CCC1424, 1468

We will pray:

Our Home Learning Task:

Write a seven day diary for the kind gestures you did every day for a week, when you were specifically demonstrating yourself as a witness for Jesus.

What a half term it has been! We have been so pleased to welcome the children back to school on 8^th March. Since returning to school, our weeks have been jam packed with lots of learning! A big thank you to Ms McCarthy for stepping in whilst Miss Battams was on jury service.

In Maths this week, we have been revising our number bonds and complements to 100. We also made our very own board games in pairs. Today, we shared them with the class and were able to play other pairs’ board games.

In English, we finished our learning about the short film El Caminante and started a short piece of learning based on the book, Mr Bunny’s Chocolate Factory. We enjoyed learning to empathise with the chickens working at the factory and writing a letter to Mr Bunny for better working conditions to lay Easter eggs.

We concluded our RE learning about Lent this week. We look forward to learning about the Pentecost in the new term. We also enjoyed live streaming an Easter mass as a school today too.

Have a very happy Easter and a relaxing break,

Miss Battams and Ms McCarthy 🙂

This week the children were challenged to complete 4 tricky challenges. The class were very enthusiastic and enjoyed completing them.

In English we are looking at the story Here Comes Mr Postmouse. We looked at the journey of mail. We shall be spending next week writing letters.

In Maths, we are securing our understanding of Numbers to 40 and making sure we have a good understanding of place value.

We have continued our topics on The UK and Plants. The children have each planted a flower each and various vegetables. They are keeping a diary entry of their flower to watch it grow.

The class looked fab all in red. Thank you for supporting Comic Relief.

After Easter, I shall be setting home learning every Friday which can be found on our Google Classroom. It shall consist of spellings each week and a topic based activity every couple of weeks.

Next weeks challenges:

Thank you for all your continued support,

Miss Perry