Key Stage 1
Welcome to Years 1 and 2
Key Stage 1 consists of three classes. There is a Year 1 class, a Year 1/2 class and a Year 2 class.
We enjoy a fun and creative curriculum and we try to visit as many places as we can to enhance the children’s learning experiences. Some of our topics have included ‘First Flight’, ‘The Fire of London’, ‘Australia’ and ‘Seasonal Changes’. Every year, the children in Key Stage 1 take part in an annual Nativity where the children learn songs as well as scripted lines before performing in front of the school and family and friends.
Click the link below to see what we are learning about this term:
Autumn Term 2023
It has been a blissful two weeks getting to know the children in our class well and hearing all about their lovely summers! KS1 have been focussing on their class authors. Briggs class have been writing questions to the giant in ‘Jim and the Beanstalk’. In Ahlberg, the children have been busy describing the characters in ‘The Jolly Postman’. Finally, Murphy class have had fun acting out areas of the story ‘Whatever Next’.
Our Key Stage 1 children have been on an exciting mathematical journey as they’ve delved into the world of addition and number sentences. They’ve shown remarkable progress and have been really enjoying using concrete resources to make sense of this new area of learning.
The children in KS1 have had lots of fun being creative across the curriculum. In computing, the children have been using digital paint tools to design self-portraits. They designed and labelled their idea of a ‘perfect friend’ in PSHE, identifying the qualities of positive friendship. The children also went outside for science having fun collecting autumn materials for a collage.
In PSHE, KS1 have been learning about emotions and how our body language can display how we are feeling. The children had meaningful discussions acknowledging their own body language and spent time role playing an array of different emotions through with their body. The children then got busy matching up different facial expressions to the correct emotion.
Spring Term 2024
The children are now learning about the Daintree Rainforest in Australia. They used globes to find Australia and realised how far away it was!
Year 1 and 2 have been exploring the four different types of structure in DT. They looked at frame structures in more detail by creating 3-D shapes and learnt how to join small parts to create a stable structure.
