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Welcome to Key Stage 1!
(Years 1 & 2)
Year 1 (& Reception) - Conkers Class Years 1 & 2 - Poplar Class Year 2 - Elm Class
Welcome to the Key Stage 1 Class page.
Mrs Siddons is the Key Stage 1 Phase Leader.
We have three Key Stage One class. Miss Elks teaches Conkers Class (Reception/ Year 1), Mrs Hodder and Miss Rollins teaches Poplar Class (Year 1/ 2). Mrs Hodder teaches Monday- Wednesday and Miss Rollins teaches Thursday and Friday. Mrs Maskill teaches Conkers Class (Year 2).
Mrs Gardner, Miss Crowe and Miss Keable support in our Phase.
Miss Cairns, Mrs Mattinson and Ms Walton teach within the Phrase.
Autumn Term 2 - Under the Stars
Welcome back to school for an exciting 2nd half of our Autumn term! We cannot wait to immerse ourselves into our new school theme ‘Under the Stars’ where we will identify seasonal weather patterns in the UK and also in relation to the equator, the North and South Poles.
We love reading in KS1 and cannot wait to dive into our class novel ‘The Owl who was Afraid of the Dark’ by Jill Tomlinson The story is about a baby Barn Owl called Plop. He is like every Barn Owl, except for one thing- he is afraid of the dark. Plop explores the dark and discovers there is magic in the dark.
Please keep checking our Class Dojo for more exciting curriculum updates!
Autumn 1- Warriors of the World!
We are extremely excited to immerse ourselves into our new school theme ‘Warriors of the World!’ where we will be immersed in our geography, exploring a contrasting locality- Africa. We will be learning about the different continents and oceans in the world. We will then find out about Africa and identify similarities and differences between Kenya in Africa and the UK.
We absolutely love reading and listening to stories in Key Stage 1 and cannot wait to enjoy reading The Lion King and The Ugly Five by Julia Donaldson. The children will use their knowledge of the texts to write setting and character descriptions.
Our spotlight author this term is Shirley Hughes. We have books by her in our reading areas this half term. The children will enjoy the Alfie books and Dogger.
In Computing, we will be exploring computing systems and know there are different types of IT and computing devices. We will look at how IT and commuting devices can support them at school as well as at home. We will know there are rules for using IT and computing devices. Keeping safe online is something that we take very seriously at Thorpe and we continually learn about it.
In science we will learning about the different animal groups and sorting animals into the categories of mammal, reptile, amphibian, birds and fish. They will compare the body structure of the different animals and how they move. We shall also be looking at the season of Autumn and the weather associated with it. The children will then look at deciduous and evergreen trees and how they differ.
As young artists, we will study animal art focusing on the work of Noel Kapanda and Edward Tingatinga. The children will explore and develop their drawing, painting and printing skills.
We have lots of fun activities and experiences to look forward to - remember to look out for photographs on our ‘KS1 Class Page’ where we will share our learning with you as well as on Class Dojo.
We cannot wait to immerse ourselves this half term and learn lots of new and exciting things!