St Augustine's Catholic Primary School

RE and Catholic Life: 

As a Catholic School, RE and Catholic living is part of our daily practise. We pray three times a day, once in the morning when the children come in, before our lunch and before we go home at the end of the day. Children are welcome to write and bring in their own prayers which are shared with the class and displayed on our RE table. On Mondays take part in Gospel assembly with our Key Stage. During Gospel Assembly, we listen to the Gospel, answer questions about it and reflect on what we are going to do that coming week to show we have learned from the Gospel. After our assembly, we then go through the wondering question and discuss what we will do this week. Our Wondering Questions is put on our RE board – along with our answers - so we are able to reflect on our actions each day.  

• On a Wednesday morning, we have hymn practise. On Thurdays the Chaplaincy team come in to our class and discuss the Wednesday Word with us. This again gives us a chance to listen to the Gospel - thinking about a specific word and what it means to us. The Chaplaincy team give us a different activity each week to complete.

• RE is taught for 2 and a half hours each week. We tend to have one lesson which is writing based and one which is creative. In creative lessons children will be encouraged to use crafts/ acting/ role play/ drawing/ ect.

Our Class Promise: 

We want our class to be a fair and happy place. So, class rules have been created and agreed by the children and are displayed at the front of our classroom where we can always see them and are reminded of them daily.

Class Information

Our class motto is: If we do not make mistakes, we do not learn.

Our class rules are:

• Follow instructions first time every time
• Take care of each other
• Keep the classroom tidy and organised
• Be respectful to ourselves and others
• Never give up
• Love one another
• Do our best
• And, be happy and have fun!

Spelling Test takes place on: Friday (and will be the words from the previous week’s homework)

Curriculum Infomation - Termly Curriculum information is available under the 'Curriculum' tab on the School Website

Our Educational visit will be arranged in the Spring/Summer Term.

Our Class assembly will be on:

Our School Council Representatives are: Olivia and Luca

Our Teaching and Learning Committee Representatives are: Valentino and Elena

Eco-Council Representatives are: Santino and Lois

P.E:

• P.E takes place twice a week on Thursday and Friday afternoons.  

• Children need to come to school in their PE kits on these days and with long hair tied up.

Daily Timetable 

• Children will be undertaking Maths and Literacy lessons in the morning as well Handwriting practise.
• Phonics will be taking place twice daily. 
• The children will carry out foundation subjects in the afternoon, such as, Geography, PE, Science and History.  
• RE takes place for two and a half hours every week. This includes half an hour of RSE.  
• Art or DT will take place in the last week of the half term every afternoon. 
• PSHE and Wellbeing lessons and assemblies will also be taking place over each half term. 

Homework: 

Homework is set on a Friday on TEAMS and should be completed and returned via Teams by the following Wednesday. Homework includes, weekly spellings which should be written into sentences and a weekly maths sheets focusing on key skills. In addition, your child should read their reading book each night for at least 10 minutes. This should then be recorded in their reading record.  

Due to Covid-19, books will now only be changed on a Monday. Children will be given 2-3 books for the week and these need to be returned on the Friday so they are able to quarantine over the weekend. Children are to bring their books in daily, so that one to one reading can take place. 

Snack 

• Fresh fruit is provided each break time for the children. 
  • Please ensure your child brings in a drinking bottle filled with water each day. Ideally this should have a sports cap.