Key Stage 1 2024 - 2025

Year 1 - Golden and Puffin        Year 1/2 - Camelot        Year 2 - Hook and Dunkerton

You will find our Termly newsletters and knowledge organisers at the bottom of this page. These will give you an insight into all of the curriculum areas that we will be covering over the term. Please use the knowledge organisers as a tool to support your child at home. Any class specific updates will be posted on Class Dojo.

 

 

What a fantastic start to the new academic year! The children have settled into their new classes and have been very busy learning all our topics this term. Don’t forget to download our knowledge organiser to find out what we are learning about over this term. As well as our topic and core subject learning, we have also been busy with our extra-curricular activities. We created class carnival floats, we watched a live performance of The Secret Garden, took part in National Poetry Day, and some of the children took part in the Children’s carnival on the 5^th October. On the 24th October, we celebrated our Harvest Festival in the Minster.

Reading and Little Wandle 

We use Little Wandle Letters and Sounds to teach or phonics, spelling and guided reading sessions. Although your child will be taught to read at school, you actually have a huge impact on their reading journey by continuing their practice at home. By then end of KS1, children are expected to read age-appropriate texts fluently and with expression while demonstrating comprehension by retelling stories, identifying main ideas, and answering questions. Therefore, to support this, we suggest that you should aim for 5 reading sessions at home each week. This could be your child reading to you or you reading to your child. Please make sure you record what you or your child has read in their reading record.

There are two types of reading books that your child will bring home each week:

Decodable Little Wandle book

This book has been carefully matched to your child’s current reading level and they have already been exposed to this book in class in their reading sessions that week. If your child is reading it with little help, please don’t worry that it’s too easy – your child needs to develop fluency and confidence in reading. Listen to them read the book. Remember to give them lots of praise – celebrate their success! If they can’t read a word, read it to them. After they have finished, talk about the book together.

Sharing book of their choice

In order to encourage your child to become a lifelong reader, it is important that they learn to read for pleasure. The sharing book is a book they have chosen for you to enjoy together. Please remember that you shouldn’t expect your child to read this alone. Read it to or with them. Discuss the pictures, enjoy the story, predict what might happen next, use different voices for the characters, explore the facts in a non-fiction book. The main thing is that you have fun!

If you require any more information about Little Wandle, please visit their webpage: For parents | Letters and Sounds (littlewandlelettersandsounds.org.uk)

Curriculum websites to support learning at home:

PhonicsPlay

KS1 English free game - Karate Cats - Spelling, grammar and punctuation - Improve literacy and comprehension - BBC Bitesize

Numbots Game

KS1 Maths free game - Karate Cats - Primary school times tables, division, shapes, fractions - BBC Bitesize

Hit the Button - Quick fire maths practise for 6-11 year olds (topmarks.co.uk)