1. A guide to your child’s experience in Key Stage 1
Welcome to Years 1 & 2
A guide to your child’s experience in Key Stage 1

2. Supporting the children with the National Curriculum
Statutory Requirements
EYFS Profile at the end of the Reception Year
Year 1 Phonics Screening
SATs at the end of Years 2 and 6

3. The Curriculum in Key Stage 1
In Ladybird and Caterpillar Class, our curriculum aims to be
creative, practical, enquiring and energetic.
Childhood research suggests that children develop in ways which lend themselves towards to a practical approach until the age of approximately 6—7 years old and they are then ready for a more formal approach to their learning.

4. What does the learning look like?
Personal, Social and Health Education
English
Maths
Science RE PE
Topic Work
Computing
Primary Languages
Assessment is ongoing and planning the teaching considers the individual needs of each of the children.

5. Ways you can help at home
Reading – A little every day really does go a long way and helps to establish good routines for the future.
Writing – the children use the Cursive style of writing. Spellings using patterns and rules, please practise these as often as you can.
Write for lots of different purposes.
Maths – encourage your child to help out as much as possible, look out for numbers, values of coins and measurements.

6. Numbers are everywhere!
Cardinal Numbers – for counting 1’s, 2’s, 5’s and 10’s (Year 1) 2’s, 3’s, 5’s and 10’s (Year 2) Ordinal Numbers – for ordering Nominal Numbers – for naming

7. Place Value

8. Calculations
Bar Model

9. Concrete Pictorial Abstract
Using real everyday objects which children know
Moving on to pictures to represent those objects
Using and recording numbers

10. Shape, Space, Measures and Geometry
Similarities and differences
Sorting, organising, grouping, ordering
Shape
Size
Capacity
Weight
Time
Money
Position
Distance

11. Using ½ and ¼ and their equivalences
Fractions
Using ½ and ¼ and their equivalences

12. Offers of Parent Help are always welcome.
As ever, we are always happy to share any queries or concerns you have, so never hesitate to talk to us, the Head or one of the Governors.
Offers of Parent Help are always welcome.