Lower School
Welcome to the Lower School, the period of education that takes your child beyond the Early Years Foundation Stage Curricuum and into the National Curriculum.
In Year 1 your child will be assessed against the national Year 1 phonics programme.
At the end of Year 2 your child will be assessed against the National Curriculum for the End of Key Stage 1 expectations.
Mrs Woods is the Head of Lower School. Should you have any queries please contact your child's classteacher, one of the Lower School teaching team or Mrs Woods.
Year 1 
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Celebration of Work and Activities
Our children's work during home learning and other activities can be viewed here:
https://sites.google.com/smceps.org/year1-2022-23/home
These curriculum sites are regularly updated. During this time they may be offline. If this is the case please return again.
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Organisation
Our school has a 60 place Year 1 unit.
There are two classes of 30 children.
Current Handbooks for each year group are available here: Department Handbooks
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Our Year 1 Curriculum
We will be planning lots of exciting activities during the year.
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Year Group Lion Knowledge Boards
Subject Leaders with staff have developed Year Group 'Lion Knowledge Boards'. These drive the curriculum planning for each teacher, explicitly providing the core 'Knowledge of: Vocabulary, People, Places and Events, Concepts and Procedures'. These Knowledge Boards are linked here: Knowledge Boards
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Year Group Curriculum Planning
Each Year Group takes the Thematics, Knowledge Boards and Subject Accountability for National Curriculum to develop a well co-ordinated, sequenced curriculum for the classroom. The Year Group Curriculum Planning can be viewed in our Google Drive here: Year 1 Curriculum Folder
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Subject Specific Accountability to National Curriculum
Some aspects of our teaching are single subject based but our integrated subject approach ensures that we have the expected general National Curriculum Coverage as outlined below:
Maths English Science Computing Design Technology
Art and Design Music Physical Education
We follow the Liverpool Diocese Syllabus for Religious Education.
Year 2 
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Celebration of Work and Activities
Our children's work during home learning and other activities can be viewed here:
https://sites.google.com/smceps.org/year2
These curriculum sites are regularly updated. During this time they may be offline. If this is the case please return again.
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Organisation
Our school has a 60 place Year 2 unit. There are two classes of 30 children.
Current Handbooks for each year group are available here: Department Handbooks
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Our Year 2 Curriculum
We will be planning lots of exciting activities during the year.
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Year Group Curriculum Planning
Each Year Group takes the Thematics, Knowledge Boards and Subject Accountability for National Curriculum to develop a well co-ordinated, sequenced curriculum for the classroom. The Year Group Curriculum Planning can be viewed in our Google Drive here: Year 2 Curriculum Folder
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Year Group Lion Knowledge Boards
Subject Leaders with staff have developed Year Group 'Lion Knowledge Boards'. These drive the curriculum planning for each teacher, explicitly providing the core 'Knowledge of: Vocabulary, People, Places and Events, Concepts and Procedures'. These Knowledge Boards are linked here: Knowledge Boards
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Subject Specific Accountability to National Curriculum
Some aspects of our teaching are single subject based but our integrated subject approach ensures that we have the expected general National Curriculum Coverage as outlined below:
Maths English Science Computing Design Technology
Art and Design Music Physical Education
We follow the Liverpool Diocese Syllabus for Religious Education.