Welcome to Key Stage 1

Teachers:

Apple – Mrs Humphreys

Pear – Mrs Hill

Cherry – Mrs Chaney

Teaching Assistants:

Mrs Norris - all day

Mrs Prottey – all day

Mrs Shuttleworth – mornings

Mrs Lloyd - Afternoons

CLASS CURRICULUM  

Welcome to Apple, Cherry and Pear Class. We have three mixed year 1 and year 2 classes at St Mary’s.  We love to ‘Enjoy, Excel and Explore’ and we strive to be brave change-makers to make a difference to the world we live in. We enjoy making connections with one another, within our partnership with St Helen’s (Alveston), with our past as we learn from those that have gone before us, with our local community and across different subjects to fully immerse ourselves in our learning.

Our values are at the core of what we do every day and we enjoy talking and learning about these during collective worship. 

Autumn Term

During the Autumn Term, the children will be exploring the Big Question of ‘How can we help a person who doesn’t have a home?’ whilst our Global Theme is Identity and Diversity. The children will compare similarities and differences between people in local setting and also in wider contexts and focus on what contributes to self-identity and belonging. Throughout this topic, our brave-change maker skills are empathy and managing change. This means the children will focus on talking about identity and diversity using an awareness of and concern for people’s feelings. The children will aim to demonstrate an interest in and concern for others outside their immediate circle and in a context different to their own. In addition, the children will describe feelings about changes in their own lives and locality.

During Term 1, the children will focus on self-identity. As historians, They will create a timeline to order significant events in their own life and use historical terms such as ‘then’, ‘now’ and ‘past’ to make comparisons. Using maps, the children will go for a walk in the local area to find out what homes are like in our community, whilst learning about how homes have changed through history. The children will look at how an aspect of life has changed over time for example doing the washing and sanitation. Visiting St Fagon’s on a school trip will provide children with the experience of visiting different homes spanning different ages. During Art, the children will learn about print artists Ben Nicolson, Claude Flight and Paul Klee. They will create their own print to create homes and houses.  They will also create videos all about themselves using clips to show how unique they are.

During Term 2, the children will identify what is a ‘need’ or a ‘want’ when it comes to a house Following this, the children will learn about what it means to be homeless and investigate whether homelessness is the same or different across different cities in the UK, thinking about challenges they may face. The children will learn about how charity work can make a difference to help people to survive homelessness and find out about the work that the Street Angels do. As Geographers, they will learn to name the countries in the UK and the capital cities. Children will learn about the differences between villages, towns and cities.

As our maxi product outcome during Term 2, the children will  create a leaflet to explain about the work of the Street angles in helping and supporting homeless people. They will encourage people to volunteer to this organisation and encourage people to donate to this charity at the end of their nativity performance.