1/2 Class
Welcome to the Year 1/2 Class page
Miss Williams is our Y12 class teacher and she is joined by Mrs Coombes our infant teaching assistant,.
Please click here for full details of our curriculum coverage for the Summer term.
Now that you are in Year 1 or Year 2 you need to be aware of the Age-Related Expectations (ARE). These are the knowledge and skills that the cohort must have in order to be able to accelerate their learning throughout the rest of the year. Look closely and work hard to ensure all of these objectives are achieved.
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Class Round Up - 12th June 2025
Year 1 and Year 2 Round Up
The Year 1s have been continuing on with Measurements of Time. We began our unit by singing the days of the week and months of the year to familiarise ourselves with the sequencing and ordering of days and months. The children have now moved onto telling the time to the hour, and telling the time to half past the hour. We’ve had lots of practical work with the school clocks and helping our partners to suggest a time before moving the hands on the clock to reflect the suggested time. We’ve been using the classroom clock as additional practice and consolidation work throughout the day and we’re becoming very fluent on when break and lunch time is!
Meanwhile, the Year 2s are continuing to practise Measurements of Money. We’ve been finding different combinations of coins that equal the same amount of money and calculating change from 50p and £1. This week, we have started our new Unit which is the rather grown-up sounding topic of Statistics! The children will be interpreting different types of tables, such as tally tables and pictograms. The children will be putting into practise their experience of tally charts from The Great British Bird Watch and we will be constructing tally charts, too!
In Guided Reading, the Year 1s have been enjoying our book ‘Finding Things’ which has led us all over the world - from Egypt to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean! We’ve learnt all about Sue (the world’s largest and most complete T-Rex fossil ever found), King Tutankhamun and his tomb of treasures, before sinking to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean to learn all about the Titanic, and looking at 3D scans of the ship. We will put all of these facts to paper by choosing one of the topics and creating a fact file.
In Guided Reading, the Year 2s are continuing with George’s Marvellous Medicine. Goodness me, Grandma isn’t flavour of the month! The Year 2s have been creating word banks full of rhymes, adjectives and alliterations for which they will then use as their tool kit to construct a rather disgusting potion for Grandma! The children have also been enjoying revisiting the book, The Bear and The Piano, for which we will practise recounting the story together.
Last week was Wellness Week and wow, the children had such fun! The week was full of exciting activities such as creating scrolls for each other on which the children wrote kind sentences about each other. Of course, we also had a Wellbeing Session in Forest School where the children created some fabulous items to take home with them. These included Worry Dolls (sticks wrapped in string and fabric, whittled with a vegetable peeler, to create a face); Dream-catchers to catch any bad dreams which were made out of bendy willow branches and string criss-crossed around the willow loop before strings were hung down and decorated with feathers and beads.
Of course, I couldn’t complete this round up without saying a big congratulations to the Year 1’s who had fantastic success with their Phonics Screening, completing it with both confidence and with A-Meyseying results. Well done!