Key Stage 1

Welcome to the KS1 page. This is where you will be able to find lots of useful information about our KS1 classes at Spurcroft Primary School.

Below you will information about the routines in KS1 for the Spring term and links to the termly Home Learning and spellings for your child's year group. 

Mrs Nic Carroll,

Key Stage One Team Leader 

Spring Term 1 2022 Information

Learning

In English, Year 2 are reading the book “Into the Forest” by Anthony Browne, a fabulous story, where each illustration cleverly signposts references to popular fairy tales. We will be comparing this version with the traditional version of Little Red Riding Hood, identifying the emotions of the characters, showing our understanding of events and planning and writing our own versions.

Year 1 are reading 'Six Dinner Sid' by Inga Moore, a story about a sleek black cat called Sid who manages to reside at six homes at the same time, receiving all the benefits, including six daily meals. The children will be learning about the differences between fiction and non-fiction texts, culminating with writing a fact file about cats. 

In maths, Year 2 have started a unit on multiplication and division, learning about equal and unequal groups, linking it to repeated addition, before  moving onto using the multiplication symbol. They will then move on to learning about statistics in a few weeks. Year 1 are adding and subtracting within 20 this term, before moving onto place value within 50. 

In our curriculum lessons, we are comparing geographical similarities and differences between  the United Kingdom and another country outside of Europe (China in Year 2, and South Africa in Year 1); in PSHE we will be using our school value of “ambition” when thinking about our goals for now and the future and in RE we are learning about 'Jesus as a friend' in Year 1 (Christianity), and 'Prayer at home' (Islam) in Year 2. 

Our science unit is “Animals including humans” and we will be learning about changing offspring, exercise, and healthy eating. 

Key Stage One Home Learning:

'MyMaths' home learning activities are set every two weeks in Year 1 and Year 2 on Thursdays. You can find the link to the page here:

https://app.mymaths.co.uk/login.html

'MyMaths' logins have been sent home with your child. If it has been misplaced, please let the school know and we can send a duplicate home. 

The children also have logins to 'Numbots',  an app which is all about children achieving the “triple win” of understanding, recall and fluency in mental addition and subtraction. Again, if your child's login has been misplaced, please let school know so we can send a duplicate home. 

You can find the link to the page here:

https://play.numbots.com/#/account/school-login/7470

Home learning for KS1 and termly spellings for Year 1 and Year 2 will be sent home on Friday 7th January. Please check your child's book bags for them. 

Termly spellings

In Year 2 a selection of the words from the spelling list will be tested each Friday.  The first spelling test will be on Friday 14^th January. The following Friday, they will be tested on the exact same spellings then the week after they will have some of the same spellings mixed in with new ones. We will then continue to test the same words for 2 weeks at a time before including new ones.

In Year 1 there is a very informal quiz on the words from the spelling list at the beginning of the phonics session on a Friday morning. The children will have 5 words to learn each week and these will be dated on the spelling list that the children will bring home. There are also additional challenge words, words that the children are expected to be able to spell at the end of Year 1. 

Home Learning

Your child will need to choose one of the activities to compete. Please do encourage them to put their best effort in to their home learning and to hand it in on time. Work and pictures should be handed in with their home learning books. If you are not able to print pictures or you would like to send a power point then please email them to either:

• year1@spurcroft.w-berks.sch.uk 
• year2@spurcroft.w-berks.sch.uk

Our Key Stage One Classes:

Routines

• Year 1 children do not need to bring in outdoor learning clothes this half term. We will resume outdoor learning on Monday afternoons after half term in Spring 2. 
• Your child needs to bring in their reading book and reading record book in everyday.  Please can you write in your child's reading record book when you've heard them read at home. 
• PE days are:
  • on a Thursday for Beech and Conifer
  • on a Friday for Willow and Cedar

Children can come into school dressed in their PE kits on those days. 

Supporting your child at home

These are ways that you can help your child at home:

Listening to them read and talking about what they have read

Ensuring that they complete their home learning activities

Reminding them to bring their reading book and reading record book into school each day

 If you have any questions about anything in this letter or involving KS1, please do not hesitate to come in to see me or speak to your child’s teacher. Thank you for your continued support.

Messages

Welcome back to  new year and a new term. We hope that you all had an enjoyable break and are looking forward to a new term. 

If your child is away from school due to displaying any COVID-19 symptoms or for self-isolation reasons please find all the learning your child will need to access on the Distance Learning Page here. https://www.spurcroft.w-berks.sch.uk/learning-resources/