Key Stage 1

Up, Up and Away

Remembrance Day

The children in Year 1 and 2 learned about the history behind Remembrance Day. We learned all about why we buy poppies, poppy snap bands and poppy keyrings. Year 2 went outside at 11am for a 2 minute silence, and we listened to Mr Stocks playing "The Last Post" on his Bugle and we listened to Mr Kershaw recite a poem.

Bubbles

The children in Year 2 enjoyed experiencing bubbles to help them to think of some words for their Bubble poems.

Winter Lights

We are very excited to have been offered the opportunity to work in collaboration with Waddesdon Manor on their winter exhibition. This year the theme is fairytales.

The children in year 1 and 2 have been offered the chance to complete an art workshop in order to create a giant turnip.

This workshop will take place during the school day tomorrow (Thursday 10^th October). Aprons will be provided.

In recognition of their participation, each pupil will receive free entry to the exhibition for themselves and a 50% discount for up to two parents and two siblings this winter. When we receive further details, we will share them with you.

Science

Investigation 1

We have been thinking about different materials and the suitability of each material and their usages. We used a traditional tale - The Three Little Pigs - to help us to investigate the best type of material to create a house. In small teams, the children created a house made out of straw, sticks and bricks. We all predicted that bricks would be best because they are strong, heavy, durable and rigid. The wolf (hairdryer) visited and in conclusion, we found that the straw blew away the most, only the roof blew off the stick house, and the brick house stayed put.

Materials

We have been learning about the properties of materials. We soon identified that 'properties' were adjectives which made it easier to describe objects like bricks, cardboard, fabric and plastic.

We were able to use our knowledge of properties to think about why objects are made from particular materials.

Geography

Traffic Survey

We conducted a traffic survey by watching the traffic by our school gates. We stayed for 30 minutes and saw lots of different types of transport. There were lots of cars, buses, people walking and we even saw a lorry!

Together we decided that walking, using scooters or bicycles would be better for our environment.

We will try to use these when we travel to and from school as well!

Human and Physical features

We went on a walk around our local area, Walton Court. On our walk we located human and physical features. We were surprised to see more human features such as shops, a vet, a cafe, a doctors surgery and a launderette.

What human and physical features do you see when you walk to school?

Birds of Prey Day

Kite Day

We have begun the new school year with a fun experience day where we learned about our topic - Up, Up and Away. We looked at different types of kites, learned the song 'Let's go fly a kite' and we made our own kites and flew them in the field. It was such a fun day!

If you would like to sing the song at home, click this link to the video we used.

Classroom Displays

Timetable

Please click on the document below to see the plethora of subjects that your children will cover and learn in, each week. This is an example and may not be the exact timetable that your child has in their class.
• Visual timetable example

Curriculum Overview

Home Learning

• Year 1 Autumn Term Homework Grid
• Year 2 Autumn Term Homework Grid

Completing these homeworks will not only help your child to consolidate their learning but it will also give your child the opportunity to get excited and share the topic with you and your family at home.
We can't wait to see their homework! Your child will also have the chance to show their classmates their work, and they will be rewarded for their hard efforts.

'My Maths' homework

Your child will be set a piece of Maths homework by their Maths teacher each week on a Friday, to be completed by the following Friday. This homework will be online using the website 'My Maths'. Each child will be given their log in details which includes a step-by-step guide on how to log on (if you need a new log in guide, please speak to your child's class teacher). If you would like support in logging in or how to complete homework tasks, please use the help guide: https://support.mymaths.co.uk/parent-support/parents-getting-started/homework-tasks/

To go directly to the website to log in, please click here.

Reading Eggs homework

Alongside your child's home-school reading book, we are encouraging the children to use Reading Eggs to develop their reading confidence and inference skills. Each child has been given their log in details (if you need a new log in guide, please speak to your child's class teacher).

To go directly to the website to log in, please click here.

Your child should have brought home a reading book and a yellow reading record (if you haven't seen it yet, please have a look in your child's bookbag or speak to their class teacher!).

Please try and read with your child a little bit at a time e.g. 5 minutes or 5 pages.

Reading books will be changed on Tuesdays and Fridays only.

We will be using a stamp in their reading records to indicate that we have recorded their reading as we are continuing with the reading awards.

Bronze: 50 reads

Silver: 80 reads

Gold: 100 reads

Useful websites to support learning at home

Topmarks Maths Fun and interactive games to support a range of maths concepts