Here we begin the first year (Year 3) and second year (Year 4) of Lower Key Stage Two.

Staff at St. Helen’s Primary

Understand that we need a

Curriculum that…….

Caters for our individual needs and backgrounds, offering equity.

Embraces the cultures and diversity within our community.

Ensures we have the vocabulary and tools to succeed in life.

Deepens our understanding of the world we live in and its complex issues.

We call this out SUCCEED curriculum and through our teaching and experiences we hope to allow the children to be curious, creative, articulate, empathetic, resilient, reflective.

School day

Every morning we teach an English and maths. In the afternoons, we teach science, history, geography, art, DT, RE as well French and music, which are taught specialist teachers. We believe it is important to offer a board and balanced curriculum, whereby everyone’s strengths can be recognised. We focus our learning on many topics throughout the year. We offer exciting trips and arrange for interesting visitors to come in. This is so the children gain first hand experience of real life scenarios.

Topics for this academic year: 

 Year 3: History: Stone age to Anglo Saxon Settlements. Geography: Sustainability in our World. Geography: Mountains and Volcanoes. 

Year 4: History: Romans in Britain. Local History: Portman Road. Geography: Farming and Land use.

In the Ocean Phase we love maths. To understand how maths learning progresses in year 3 & 4, visit the White Rose website to see details of questions and concepts.  https://whiterosemaths.com/for-parents/