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Key Stage 1 Overview

Key Stage 1 Staff – led by Miss Brown

Year 2: Mrs Leishman

Year 1/2: Mrs Hickman and Miss Jones

Year 1: Miss Brown

Teaching Assistants: Mrs Beckett, Mrs Higgs, Mrs Bevan, Miss Allenden and Mrs Searle

  • April 2023 in Year 2 - In Maths, we have been exploring time and units of measure. We looked at different intervals of time up to 5 minutes. In English, we… More...
  • April 2023 in Year 1/2 - In Maths we have been doing geometry.  We have used what we know about 2D shapes properties to solve this shape puzzle, finding how many… More...
  • April 2023 in Year 1 - In Maths, we have been exploring numbers bonds to 10 and 20. We have also been looking at ways to make an equivalent amount. In… More...
  • March 2023 in Year 1 - In Science, we have been learning about habitats. We created our own microhabitat diagram, we first thought about what the environment was like and then… More...
  • March 2023 in Year 2 - In Computing, we have been learning how to sort items based on different characteristics. We used a Venn diagram to help us sort the sweets… More...
  • February 2023 in Year 2 - This month in English we have been exploring the story of ‘Mr Big’ by Ed Vere. We read the story to find out about the… More...
  • February 2023 in year 1/2 - In Wellbeing week we looked at ‘Let’s connect’ and we did work about our friends, family and how we try to cope with our emotions.… More...
  • February 2023 in Year 1 - English - This month we have been looking at the story ’15 Things Not to do with a Puppy’. We wrote our ideas of what… More...
  • January 2023 in Year 2 - We have enjoyed starting the new year in year 2 and have created our own class calendar, making sure to add on everyone’s birthdays. We… More...
  • January 2023 in Year 1 - In English we have been using adjectives and similes to help us write about a topic. We have also been using contractions and conjunctions to… More...
  • December 2022 in Year 1 - In Design and Technology, we created our own moving pictures using levers and flaps. We thought about what movement we would want in our picture… More...
  • December 2022 in Year 2 - We have had a really enjoyable end to our half term in Year 2. We have brought together so many of our topics and really… More...
  • December 2022 in Year 1/2 - In English, we have been writing instructions using sentence starters for sequencing them in the correct order and ‘bossy’ verbs.  It was fun writing our… More...
  • November 2022 in Year 2 - This month we have explored a new story in English called ‘Stanley’s Stick’. We have enjoyed learning about his adventures with his stick and what… More...
  • November 2022 in Year 1/2 - In Maths, we have been exploring 2 digit numbers and comparing them depending on how many tens and one there is. For example, 34 has… More...
  • November 2022 in Year 1 - In Maths we have been learning our number bonds to 10 as well as exploring the word equivalence. We know that the = signs means… More...
  • October 2022 in Year 2 - This term saw the end of our Great Fire of London topic. We celebrated in style by having a massive fire called ‘The Great Fire… More...
  • October 2022 in Year 1 - In History we have been making Tudor houses ready to put them together with all of KS1 for our Great fire of Wheatcroft.  Mrs Waller… More...
  • October 2022 in Year 1/2 - In History we have been making Tudor house ready to put them together with all of KS1 for our Great fire of Wheatcroft.  Mrs Waller… More...
  • September 2022 in Year 1 - In Maths we have been exploring positional language. We looked at how to find objects based on the row or column they were in. We… More...
  • September 2022 in Year 2 - We have had an enjoyable first month in Year 2 and have explored many new things like The Great Fire of London and Materials! In… More...
  • September 2022 in Year 1/2 - In English we read and did work about the book Flotsam.  Here we imagined that we are looking at through a magnifying glass at objects… More...
  • Head Teacher Award May 2022 - Some children in Year 1 received the Head Teachers Award this month for the fantastic model they made of the physical features you find at… More...

PE

Please make sure your child has both indoor & outdoor kit in school at all times and that their names are clearly labelled in all of their uniform & shoes. Please also provide hair band, spare pair of socks & ensure earrings have been removed on PE days.

Literacy

The main reading scheme used is the Oxford Reading Tree.