Year 1 and 2

Welcome to our Year 1 and 2 page! We will provide weekly updates here as well as learning overviews.

For specific curriculum links, support and advice, please use the curriculum tab and choose the appropriate subject. 

We have three classes in Year 1 and 2 (also known as KS1).

Our classes are

Doves (Y1) whose class teacher is Miss Kealey

Eagles (Y1&Y2) whose class teacher is Mrs Pollard

Falcons (Y2) whose class teacher is Miss Clarkson

During the mornings, we have an extra teacher (Mrs Cross / Mrs Murphy) in the phase to provide single year group teaching for Reading, Maths and Phonics/Spelling. Learning is also supported by Teaching Assistants.

26th May 2023

What a super end to an incredibly busy and exciting term! We have continued to enjoy our English sessions where we wrote letters to Mrs Lindley persuading her to plant more trees to help the last wolf. and write fantastic recounts about our trip to the zoo. In Science, we completed our unit by writing instructions on how to take care of your plants and analysed our results from our cress seed investigation. We designed and painted our own roller coasters using our new brushing techniques. We had an amazing day out at the zoo where we saw lions close up, penguins swimming, gorillas munching on their lunch and of course the fabulous sea lion show!  Such a busy week - I think we are all ready for a nice rest! Well done Key Stage 1!

19th May 2023

Key Stage 1 has worked incredibly hard all week and we are all proud of each and every one of them. The Year 2's this week have shown a fantastic attitude with great perseverance toward completing their SATs. This week we have continued to read The Last Wolf as part of our English lessons, and we enjoyed writing our own letters to Mrs Lindley to help the animals in our own woods. In Geography, we started to learn about the migration of swallows and discovered what famous landmarks they would have seen when flying across countries and continents. In Science, we have continued our investigation on how well cress can be grown in different environments. Well done everyone!

12th May 2023

We have had another exciting week in KS1! We have continued to enjoy our English sessions learning how to apply our new suffixes and prefixes. We even had a class debate about why we need to plant more trees! In Science, we are continuing to look after our sunflowers and recording them in our sunflower diary. In Geography, we explored what it is like to live in Oceania and see all of the animals that live there! We had a special visitor come and teach us how we can plant and grow coriander out in tins.  In PE we have been focusing on our target skills by using curling techniques with bean bags.  Brilliant work this week Key Stage 1!

5th May 2023

What an exciting week we have had in KS1! We have continued to enjoy our English sessions where we have been in the woods to help us write instructions for Little Red to get home safely. We even had our teacher dress up as a wolf! In Science, we are continuing to look after our sunflowers and recording them in our sunflower diary. In Geography, we explored what it is like to live in Africa and see all of the animals that live there! We even got to look at money, clothes and cooking equipment from Namibia, Kenya and Uganda. In PE we have been able to link in our measuring skills to see how far we can all jump from standing and with a run up.  Brilliant work this week Key Stage 1!

28th April 2023

What a fabulous week we have had in KS1 this week! We have continued to enjoy our English sessions where we have role-played and hot-seated in the character of the last wolf. In Science, we have planted our very own sunflower seeds and have created our very own sunflower diary. We spent time outside hunting for all of the wildflowers we have been learning about. In Geography, we explored what it is like to live in Asia and all of the famous architecture and history! We have had a fantastic time in Art this week learning how to weave in order to create a pattern.  Well done Key Stage 1!

21st April 2023

What a magnificent start to an incredibly busy week! We have continued to enjoy our English sessions where we have role-played catching a wolf and worked independently to write a guide and safety rules to catch a wolf in the woods. In Science, we started our plant topic by exploring and dissecting all of the different parts of a flower creating a fact file all about the different roles of each part of the plant. We have started our Geography unit off by learning a song all about the 7 continents and what it is like to live in Antarctica! We have had a fantastic time in Art this week exploring all of the different ways we can mold clay and print different objects to create an artistic tile. As well as all of our fun in the classroom on Thursday we had a brilliant time completing our hop, skip and jump! It has been an amazing first week back, well done Key Stage 1!

31st March 2023

What a super end to an incredibly busy term! We have continued to enjoy our English sessions where we used our 'magic mirrors' to role-play the characters of Major Glad and Major Dizzy and worked independently to write a diary entry. In Science, we completed our unit by learning about how the length of a day changes during the year and exploring how we can create shadows using light sources. We continued to think about the importance of the Rainhill Trials in history and looked at the purpose of commemorative trains as a way of marking significant dates in the past. Our RE learning included a visit to church to search for evidence relating to the Easter story. Such a busy week - I think we are all ready for a nice rest! Well done Key Stage 1!

24th March 2023

Key Stage 1 have worked incredibly hard all week and we are all proud of each and every one of them. This week we have continued to read Major Glad, Major Dizzy as part of our English lessons and we enjoyed making our own peg doll before we wrote a set of instructions to explain how we did it. In History, we started to learn about the history of the train and discovered what happened during the Rainhill Trials in the 1800s. In RE, we enjoyed the opportunity to learn outside as we created beautiful Easter gardens using natural materials to show our understanding of the Easter story. Well done everyone!

17th March 2023

We have had another amazing week in Key Stage 1 and it has been a delight to watch the children working so hard. In English, we have continued to explore the adventures of Major Glad and Major Dizzy, writing letters to our heroes and describing one of the characters using our inference skills. As part of Science Week, we investigated bridges and worked in pairs to build the strongest bridge possible using just 5 sheets of paper! It was wonderful to watch the children work collaboratively using all the scientific knowledge and skills they have been taught this year. In RE we discussed the Easter story in more depth, focusing on the Resurrection and making links to the life cycle of a butterfly. Another wonderful week, well done everyone!

10th March 2023

This week has flown by in Key Stage 1, so that means we must have had a busy week of learning, and lots of fun! In science, we were learning about wind and thinking about how we can measure wind ourselves. We enjoyed making our own wind socks and it was great fun watching our weather vanes move as the wind blew! In history, we continued to learn about flight and compared a modern aeroplane with one of the first planes invented. Our DT project is progressing nicely, and we discovered the importance of working as a team when creating our final model of a fairground wheel. 

A super week of amazing effort and learning, well done everyone!

3rd March 2023

We have enjoyed another fun-filled week in Key Stage 1! We were really lucky this week to have two visitors to school to enhance our learning. We thoroughly enjoyed our visiting author and found her stories very entertaining to listen to. We were also lucky to have the opportunity to grow our own carrots and learn about the life cycle of a carrot plant. In DT this week, we had the tricky task of making a prototype of our fairground wheel. It was a challenging activity, but we all persevered and tried our best. World book day was great fun and all three classes looked amazing in their wonderful costumes. It was lots of fun discussing our favourite books and trying to answer the questions on our World Book Day quiz! A super week everyone, well done!

25th February 2023

It has been lovely to welcome the children back to school this week and they have had a very busy four days! In English, we have enjoyed exploring the poem 'From a Railway Carriage' and worked together to collect new vocabulary to help describe different landscapes in preparation for creating our own version next week. We enjoyed learning about the Wright brothers in our history lessons and thought about why it was important for them to invent the first aeroplane. In PE, we developed our skills of sending and receiving where we made sure we focused on aiming carefully and using the correct amount of power to reach our target. We also started collecting data in our computing lessons by completing tally charts to help use count correctly. What a lot of learning! Well done on a super return to school KS1!

10th February 2023

What a lovely week we've had in KS1 to finish off this half term!  The children have worked so hard this week finishing off all their units of learning.  All the children have done a super job of writing their own adventure stories based on our book in English, 'The Dragon Machine.'  We all enjoyed Internet safety day and all the activities  about how to keep safe online.  All three classes completed their amazing Pop Art group collages with finger paint pointillism and charcoal outlines!  The end of half term was celebrated with a fun day out at Eureka!  The children were a credit to the school with their wonderful behaviour, and they had so much fun exploring the museum!  Well done KS1 and have a wonderful half term.

3rd February 2023

What a busy week of learning we have had in all three classes in KS1 this week.  In English the children are continuing to enjoy our class book 'The Dragon Machine', thinking carefully about locations where dragons could live and designing their own machines.  The children have worked so hard in Art, applying paint without brushes to explore texture for effect.  We labelled maps of the UK in Geography and learnt all about the different foods that we get from each part of the country.  The children are so good at programming the bee-bots now in their computing lesson!  In Science the children have been using Venn diagrams to sort different materials according to their properties.  Well done KS1 on all your hard work this week.

27th January 2023

It's been another busy week in KS1 with lots of super learning in all three classes.  The children have really enjoyed computing this week, learning how to program Bee-Bots.  Art saw the start of amazing A1 sized group efforts based on the work of Roy Lichtenstein; incorporating pointillism, patterns, bold lettering and comics to make collages.  We can't wait to see how they progress by the end of term!  The children have enjoyed continuing dance based on different animal moves to music and beats in PE.  Geography was all about dairy farming this week and learning more about what farmers do to get milk from cows to our homes!  In RE we have been continuing to learn all about Jesus as a special friend and the miracle stories that bring this to life.  Well done everyone in KS1 on a super week.

20th January 2023

What a busy week we've had in KS1, with lots of super learning!  This week we have been learning how to draw different emotions and expressions on faces in Art.  In Geography we spent time looking at vegetables and fruit grown on farms, and the way in which they grow.  Our PE has been continuing with dance, moving like animals in time with the beat.  In Science we have been looking at the usefulness of different materials.  We have been enjoying learning more about dragons in our new English book - we made 'Beware of the dragons' posters with super sentences!  Well done everyone. 

13th January 2023

What a busy week we've had in KS1! We started the week with a big surprise - dragons had visited all 3 classes over  the weekend, and had left footprints and nests of eggs in the classrooms! The children were all very excited to  investigate the clues and see a video of a dragon in their class. We can't wait to start reading our new class book in  English! In Geography we have enjoyed learning about the process food goes through from farms to our homes. In  Science we are deepening our knowledge of materials and their properties. The children were hands-on in Art  making superheroes out of pipe cleaners and modelling clay - they look fantastic! Well done KS1 on such a lovely  week.

16th December 2022

We have enjoyed another busy week of learning in Key Stage 1 with lots of exciting learning and Christmas activities in all three classes. This week we have completed our work on creating our own Frosty the Snowman poems. In Science we wrote instructions on how to look after our new pet we have created. Thank you so much for coming to watch our performance, we loved performing for you on Tuesday and performing some of our songs to the school during worship. With only a few weeks left until Christmas we have been looking at getting prepared for Christmas, what it means and had lots of fun making our Christingles. It has been a busy and fun half term and we are all so proud of everyone's hard work! Merry Christmas!

9th December 2022

We have enjoyed another fantastic week of learning in Key Stage 1 with lots of exciting learning in all three classes. This week we have all worked extra hard in completing our assessments and wowing the teachers with our efforts. It has been fun learning actions to our Christmas Nativity songs and practising it all together in the church. Our highlight this week was definitely the magical pantomime full of singing, dancing, acrobats and rain! 

2nd December 2022

We have enjoyed another busy week of learning in Key Stage 1 with lots of exciting learning in all three classes. This week we assessed how strong our chairs for Baby Bear are.  In History we spent time exploring, discussing and sorting different types of shops our grandparents used in comparison to us.  In our PE, we continued to learn to control our movements and explored different ways to travel and jump off apparatus. It was lots of fun learning actions to our Christmas Nativity songs and practising in the church. It has been a busy week and we are all so proud of everyone's hard work! 

25th November 2022 

We have enjoyed another busy week of learning in Key Stage 1 with lots of exciting learning in all three classes. This week we completed our work on making a chair for Baby Bear after testing materials and techniques to ensure it was stable and strong.  In History we spent time exploring, discussing and sorting different types of toys our grandparents used and what clothes they wore to school in comparison to us.  In our PE, we continued to learn to control our movements and explored different ways to complete a forward roll. It was lots of fun learning actions to our Christmas Nativity songs. It has been a busy week and we are all so proud of everyone's hard work!

18th November 2022

We have had a super week in Key Stage 1 with lots of exciting learning in all three classes. This week we have completed our work on exploring ways to build a chair for Baby Bear using card and working together as a team. In History we spent time looking at how our shops are similar and different from our grandparents’ using different types of maps and photographs. In Science we have been investigating if all animals eat the same types of food then grouping them. Our PE, gymnastics, has been about exploring different ways to make shapes using our bodies with a partner and holding the balance. It was lots of fun learning our Christmas performance songs in music and creating actions to go with the lyrics, we can't wait to show everyone. Well done everyone!

11th November 2022

We have had a brilliant week in Key Stage 1 with lots of exciting learning in all three classes. This week we have completed our work on exploring the strength of our chosen shapes. We tested their stability to see how many books they could hold. In History we spent time looking at how our everyday household items are similar and different from our grandparents’. Alongside our History unit we have also been learning all about the importance of Remembrance day and why we use poppies. Our PE, gymnastics, has been about exploring different ways to roll on a mat. It was lots of fun learning our Christmas performance songs in music, and we are looking forward to performing them beautifully. We are all so proud of everyone's hard work and compassion when learning about Remembrance day!  

4th November 2022

We have enjoyed our first week back in Key Stage 1 with lots of exciting learning in all three classes. This week we have completed our work on exploring stability as we tested a variety of shapes out of playdough to check which was the most stable when lifted up on a board. In History we spent time looking at how our childhood is similar and different to our grandparents. Our PE, we have started to learn all about gymnastics, exploring different ways to travel along, through and around equipment. It was lots of fun learning a new song in music, and we were able to perform it beautifully. It has been a first week bath this half term and we are all so proud of everyone's hard work! 

21st October 2022

We have enjoyed another busy week of learning in Key Stage 1 with lots of exciting learning in all three classes. This week we have completed our work on materials as we tested a variety to check which was the most waterproof. In geography we spent time creating posters to show everything we have understood about seasons and weather in the United Kingdom. Our PE, we continued to enjoy playing team games, working together to score points for our group. It was lots of fun learning a new song in music, and we were able to perform it beautifully. It has been a busy half term and we are all so proud of everyone's hard work! Have a restful half term!

14th October 2022

We have enjoyed another busy week in Key Stage 1 and it has been wonderful to see everyone enjoying learning with their friends. This week, we have started to learn about the features of a non-chronological report and we collected some interesting facts about woodland creatures. In science, we were set a task to investigate which materials are waterproof and we have planned an investigation to find the best material to use to create an umbrella. In computing we thought about how we use IT differently when at school and at home. Our art lessons were lots of fun as we chose to revisit our favourite art technique to create our own piece of artwork. Well done everyone, it has been another super week!

7th October 2022

This week has gone by so quickly and it has been lovely to see the KS1 children enjoying their learning with their friends. In Science, we continued to explore everyday materials and we identified materials and objects that were transparent. We also thought about what it would be like if we used different materials to produce windows. In art we used pastels and chalk to create 3D pictures of a planets, taking care to use the resources appropriately to create different effects. Our geography session this week reminded us of the different points of the compass and we then explored the different weather around the UK which helped us to discover if all of the UK has the same weather each day. It has been a busy week and everyone has made a huge effort in all their lessons. Well done KS1!

30th September 2022

It has been another super week for the KS1 children! This week we have enjoyed creating simple poems about different feelings from the book 'The Colour Monster'. We have also explored different materials and handled them so we could describe their different properties and use this new vocabulary to explain why certain materials are chosen for different objects. In art we developed our shading skills as we created 3D sketches of pieces of ribbon by carefully highlighting the different areas of the material. Our geography learning this week involved thinking about the different seasons of the year and we thought carefully about how the weather associated with different seasons helps us choose our clothing. Everyone has worked so hard again this week, well done KS1!

23rd September 2022

It has been another busy week for everyone in Key Stage 1. We have been busy identifying adjectives in English to help us describe our own colour monster and we thought carefully about how different colours make us feel. In art we used our wax crayon rubbings from last week to create our own frottage artwork based on the work of Max Ernst by cutting out shapes showing different textures and sticking them together to create a new image. In geography we used the four compass points to describe the wind direction and thought about how this can change the temperature around us. Our PE sessions were also great fun this week as we continued to develop our movement skills to work together as a team and manoeuvre safely around the hall. 

Thank you for another super week of enthusiastic learning everyone!

16th September 2022

We have had another fun-filled week in KS1 with lots of exciting learning taking place. We have been learning to sort objects depending on the material that they are made from in our science lessons as we began our work on Everyday Materials. In geography, we continued to discover facts about the seasons by creating a word cloud showing all the vocabulary we could remember, and we enjoyed being weather presenters during the lesson. In PE we played lots of games that used our movement skills and developed our teamwork as we competed in team games. In RE, we thought about how food is harvested in different ways around the world and discussed how thankful we are for the different foods we eat. It has been a busy week and we are all so proud of everyone's hard work. Well done Key Stage 1!

9th September 2022

It has been wonderful to welcome all the children back into school this week and they have all looked so smart in their uniforms every day. This week we have had lots of fun getting used to our new classrooms and learning new routines. We have enjoyed using practical resources to help us learn number facts in maths and we were excited to start using a new piece of equipment called a rekenrek! In art this week we explored repeated patterns and used different shapes and colours to create a beautiful piece of artwork on different coloured paper. In geography we have been learning about the seasons and started to collect vocabulary to help us describe different weather. Our PE activities this week involved moving around carefully and safely and developing our throwing and catching skills. It has been a very busy first week back, well done on a super week KS1!