St Helen's Catholic Primary School
St Helen's Catholic Primary School is a primary school in London for ages 2 to 11.
Daily practice for St Helen's Catholic Primary School pupils
Daily maths and English that follow the national curriculum for your child's year. Start with a free five-minute class.
At a glance
- Type
- Academy
- Ages
- 2 to 11
- Pupils
- 497
- Who it's for
- Boys and girls
- Faith
- Roman Catholic
- Address
- Chargeable Lane, London, E13 8DW
- Phone
- 02074 761785
The school's websiteResults and performanceFull register entryMap
What each year group is learning
From St Helen's Catholic Primary School's curriculum maps.
ReceptionAutumn 1 and Autumn 2 and Spring 1 and Spring 2 and Summer 2 and Summer 1
- Maths
- Creating and continuing repeating patterns
- English
- Listening attentively and taking turns in conversations
- Computing
- Following rules and understanding why they are important. Online safety and understanding sensible amounts of screen time. Using passwords to access devices. Discussion on how and why passwords are used. Talking about images on a website and who they belong to. Stranger danger. How technology is used at home and in school. The internet can be used to play and learn. Programming and debugging. Algorithms through playing Simon Says. Choosing a website appropriate for an activity. Matching images to a sound. Recording devices to express ideas. Giving instructions to navigate a partner around an obstacle course. Using cameras, sound recorders and mobile devices to collect photographs and sound. Breaking a problem into smaller steps (decomposition). Exploring computer applications such as drawing apps and age-appropriate games. Saving and retrieving their work. Speculating about how things work
- Art
- Self-portraits. Mixing colours to see what happens. Using a variety of tools purposefully. Drawing faces using a circle and adding details. Using lines to enclose a space and represent objects. Exploring paint with fingers and other body parts as well as brushes. Describing the texture of things. Watching and talking about dance and performance art. Creating collaboratively, sharing ideas, resources and skills. Creating crafts based on famous French artists or cultural symbols. Finger painting in the style of Monet's water lilies or Matisse's cut-outs
- Design and technology
- Constructing with blocks, stacking vertically and horizontally to make enclosures. Making simple models to express ideas
- Music
- Making music and dancing, performing solo or in groups. Performing songs, rhymes, poems and stories with others. Singing songs and experimenting with ways of moving creatively. Moving around with awareness and care for others' personal space. Joining in with dancing and singing games. Moving whole bodies to sounds and a regular beat. Starting and stopping together when performing as a group. Singing nursery rhymes and action songs. Exploring and creating sounds using voices, then classroom instruments. Tapping out simple repeated rhythms. Making up rhythms and composing a musical answer or part of a song. Recognising high and low sounds. Exploring how sounds can be changed. Creating sounds by banging, shaking, tapping or blowing. Performing songs and dances in small groups. Exploring the different sounds of instruments. Talking about how music makes them feel
- PSHE
- Building relationships, learning names and taking turns
- French
- Joining in with a French song and actions. Recognising and responding to French numbers between 1 and 10. Experiencing French traditions, festivals and landmarks. Exploring textures, smells and tastes of simple French foods. Learning simple facts about Epiphany in France and making Epiphany crowns. Joining in with and acting out the rhyme Frere Jaques. Joining in with and acting out the rhyme La famille doigt/Plic Ploc. Exploring French greetings, simple instructions and classroom routines. Singing repetitive songs with actions to build vocabulary. Recalling and saying greetings and name phrases. Recalling and joining in with a simple question phrase
Year 1Autumn and Spring and Summer
- Maths
- Days of the week and numbers 1-20. Months of the year
- Science
- Learning about animals
- History
- Black History. Kings and Queens
- Geography
- Around the school and the local area. Weather patterns. Where in the world is Barnaby Bear
- Computing
- Algorithms and the iAlgorithm unit. Programming and data representation. Creating digital text and online safety
- Art
- Portraits in the style of Amedeo Modigliani. Painting Rangoli patterns. Fruit salads and arts weeks
- Design and technology
- Sliders and levers
- Music
- Blues and Old School Hip Hop. Bossa Nova and Round and Round
- PE
- Balance and agility. Dance and games
- RE
- Creation and covenant
- PSHE
- Being responsible for my feelings and emotions. Citizenship and economy. Health and safety
Year 2Autumn and Spring and Summer
- Maths
- Numbers 1-20. Shapes in 2D and 3D
- Reading
- Fictional characters: pirates
- Writing
- Blogging and writing and responding
- Science
- Habitats. Plants: bulbs and growth. Uses of materials
- History
- Black History Weeks and Intrepid Explorers. The Great Fire of London. Florence Nightingale and Mary Seacole
- Geography
- The UK. Investigating the local area and contrasting it with a non-European country. Desert to garden. Going to the seaside
- Computing
- Creating and finding things out with animation. Creating eBooks. Programming with ScratchJr
- Art
- Famous buildings and the work of John Virtue. Texture creatures
- Design and technology
- Wheels and axles
- Music
- Reggae and rock. Friendship and contemporary pop. Glockenspiel and African pop
- PE
- Tennis and striking for accuracy
- PSHE
- Citizenship and economy. Health and safety
- Other
- Religion mission statement and prophecy and promise. Galilee to Jerusalem. Parts of the body
Year 3Autumn and Spring and Summer
- Maths
- Symmetrical shapes
- Science
- Plants and their needs for survival. Forces and magnets. Rocks and fossils. Skeletons, muscles and nutrition. Lights and shadows
- History
- Ancient Egypt. Changes in Britain from the Stone Age to the Iron Age. Ancient Greece
- Geography
- Climate zones. Contrasting localities in London and a village in India. Mapping of the world
- Computing
- Games and animation. Staying safe online. Networks and the internet. Editing audio and podcasts
- Art
- Identity and the work of Sonia Boyce. Patterns and the work of William Morris
- Design and technology
- Mechanisms, levers and linkages
- Music
- Glockenspiel and ukulele
- PE
- Gymnastics and dance
- RE
- Creation and covenant
- PSHE
- Citizenship and economy
Read on 11 November 2026 from the school's Curriculum & Learning page and the school's Art and Design page and the school's MFL page and the school's Computing page and the school's Music page. The maps: Curriculum Map 2026-27, Art and Design EYFS Curriculum Map 2026-27, MFL EYFS Curriculum Map 2026-27, Computing EYFS Curriculum Map 26-27, Music EYFS Curriculum Map 2026-27, Curriculum Map 2026-27, Curriculum Map 2026-27, Curriculum Map 2026-27.
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