Key Stage 1

Assistant Headteacher EYFS

Martine Auton

Phase Timetable

Year 1

1C Class Assembly – 2021/22
1J Class Assembly – 2021/22
Summer Term Knowledge Organiser – 2023-2024

The latest Year 1 Learning Update!

Year 1 have kick started the New Year with an even better attitude towards their education. They are all super excited about the new learning that will take place as we dive into our Spring topic, ‘Taking Flight.’

In English, we have begun reading the story ‘The way back home’, where the children have enjoyed using talk for writing actions to help them memories the story. They then put themselves in the role of the main character and wrote a diary entry ensuring that it included all the essential elements: capital letters, finger spaces, adjectives and conjunctions.

We’ve made cross-curricular links by linking this story to our computing lessons whereby the children started learning about illustrations and animations. They sketched out the two main characters from the story and over the next few weeks will work on replicating their sketches using a computer program and will later turn these into animations.

Last term the children consolidated their knowledge of numbers to 10 in Maths and this term we will be focussing on numbers to 20. This week the children have worked on using various resources to support them in working out word problems and have been encouraged by the teachers to verbally explain how they have worked out the answers ensuring that they use key vocabulary when doing so.

Mr. Wright has jumped straight back in to PE teaching the children Gymnastics for this half-term. The children were reminded of the importance of warming up and were encouraged to reflect on how their bodies feel after a warm up activity. During the lesson the children used their bodies to create letter shapes and were reminded that a balance is only a balance if it is held for at least 5 seconds!

Year 2

Class Assembly 2I – 2021/22
Class Assembly 2W – 2021/22

Summer Term Knowledge Organiser- 2023-2024

The latest Year 2 Learning Update!

In English this week we have been looking at how we can make our writing more interesting. We used the story ‘Toby and the Great Fire of London’ as inspiration and were able to use expanded noun phrases to describe different things in the story. We also learned about inverted commas and were able to think about what different characters would say at different points in the story.

In Maths we learned the difference between volume and capacity and were able to measure in ml and l. We also learned about temperature and that the lower the number on the thermometer, the colder it is and the greater the number on the thermometer, the hotter it is.

In RE we learned about the Easter story and it’s importance to Christians. We also learned about ways that Easter is celebrated in a religious manner and a non-religious manner.

In Geography we looked at maps of London from the 17th century and the 21st century and were able to compare them. We also looked for the different features and were able to see how London has changed.

In History we became town planners and wrote a letter to the London Council explaining the changes that needed to be made in 1666 after the Great Fire of London. We were able to talk about how these changes made London better and safer.

In DT we designed our Tudor houses and labelled them with the materials we would need to make them.