Inspection Comments The pupils have an outstanding attitude to learning and their achievement, academically and in extra-curricular activities, is good and often excellent. Pupils throughout the school have good knowledge and skills for their age and abilities over the full range of subjects and in other activities outside the classroom, and their achievements are sometimes outstanding. The attitude of all pupils towards their work is excellent, and it is one of the school’s notable strengths.

The children all receive a broad and balanced curriculum. Aspects of literacy and numeracy are timetabled each day. Every child is heard to read regularly, and reading books are sent home for further reading.

Weekly spelling tests are learnt, and these are monitored to ensure they are used during independent writing sessions. The curriculum includes weekly lessons in RE, Science. Music PE, Games, Art, Design Technology, French, History and Geography.

Literacy

1. Speaking
2. Listening and responding
3. Group discussion and interaction
4. Drama
5. Word recognition: decoding (reading) and encoding (spelling)
6. Word structure and spelling
7. Understanding and interpreting texts
8. Engaging with and responding to texts
9. Creating and shaping texts
10. Text structure and organisation
11. Sentence structure and punctuation
12. Presentation

Mathematics

1. Using and applying mathematics
2. Counting and understanding number
3. Knowing and using number facts
4. Calculating
5. Understanding shape
6. Measuring
7. Handling Data

Religious Education

Year One
Jesus and his family
Jesus teaches us to love
We belong to the Catholic Church (welcoming each other)
The Holy Spirit helps us

Year Two
Our Church teaches us about the Sacraments
Our Church teaches us about Reconciliation
Our Church teaches us about the Mass
Our Church teaches us about the Eucharist

Science

1. Scientific enquiry
2. Life processes and living things
3. Materials and their properties
4. Physical processes

History

1. Chronological understanding
2. Knowledge and understanding of events, people and changes in the past
3. Historical interpretation
4. Historical enquiry
5. Organisation and communication

Geography

1. Geographical enquiry and skills
2. Developing geographical skills
3. Knowledge and understanding of places
4. Knowledge and understanding of patterns and processes
5. Knowledge and understanding of environmental change and sustainable development

Art & Design

1. Exploring and developing ideas
2. Investigating and making art, craft and design
3. Evaluating and developing work
4. Knowledge and understanding

ICT

1. The information around us
2. Representing information graphically
3. Creating pictures
4. Controlling a floor turtle

Music

1. Controlling sounds through singing and playing: performing skills
2. Creating and developing musical ideas: composing skills
3. Responding and reviewing: appraising skills
4. Listening and applying knowledge and understanding

PE

1. Acquiring and developing skills
2. Selecting and applying skills, tactics and compositional ideas
3. Evaluating and improving performance
4. knowledge and understanding of fitness and health

PSHE & Citizenship

1. Developing confidence and responsibility and making the most of their abilities
2. Preparing to play an active role as citizens
3. Developing a healthy, safer lifestyle
4. Developing good relationships and respecting the differences between