Welcome to Key Stage One!

2024-2025

Meet the Staff

Our Key Stage 1 teachers are Miss Barry in 1B, Miss Finn in 1-2F and Miss Rush (KS1 Leader) in 2R. 

The children in Years 1 and 2 are supported by our teaching assistants, Miss Begum, Mrs Hill, Miss Ilyas and Miss Muff. 

Things to Remember

This term the children will have PE or Swimming (Year 2 only) on the following days:

Monday - 1B PE

Tuesday - 2R and 1-2F PE

Wednesday - Year 1 Forest School (alternate weeks) and Year 2 Swimming

Thursday - Reading books and Phonics Records due in  

Friday - Reading books and Phonics Records go home

Homework

To help your child at home, it is important for you to support your child with their reading and phonics throughout the week. Reading books and phonics records are due in every Thursday.

• Reading - OTTER book: This book is matched to your child’s reading ability. Listen to your child read this independently and celebrate their successes as they will have worked on decoding, prosody/expression and comprehension skills during OTTER. Please sign that they have read this in their reading record. Library book: This book is chosen by your child and is for them to share with an adult at home. It is a story they enjoy and is not matched to their phonic ability. Please sign that you have shared this book in their reading record.
• Phonics - Phonics Record: This is a record of the graphemes your child has learnt in phonics that week, with examples of words containing those sounds and tricky words, which are words they cannot fully decode. Recap this with your child, ask them to look for digraphs or hear the sounds in the words, then blend to read the word. They could also segment to spell the words too. Please sign that you have looked at their phonics record in their reading record.