Key Stage 1
Phase Leader KS1
Eduardo Serra
Year 1
Autumn Term Knowledge Organiser – 2025-2026
The latest Year 1 Learning Update!
In English, we will be learning through poetry… Out and About! A First Book of Poems by Shirley Hughes. We will be exploring the features of poetry looking at rhyming words and finishing by writing our own Winter inspired poems.
In Maths, we will be continuing our learning around 2D and 3D shapes. We will be thinking about the properties of shapes by looking at sides, edges, faces and vertices. Then exploring the shapes that we can see in the real world.
In Science, we will be continuing our topic of Materials! We will be investigating suitable materials for making a wetsuit for Traction Man.
In DT, we will be making our own playground equipment out of junk modelling. We will design our piece of the equipment considering the materials and shapes of the different apparatus.
In Geography we will continue exploring the local area and learn about compass points and directional language. In History we are going to be looking at the invention of Lego and how it has changed over time.
The Year 1 team would please ask you to start saving any recycling for our DT final project at the end of the term (cardboard, plastic bottles, boxes). You are welcome to drop it into class at any point throughout the half term. It will be put to good use! Also, please remember to send your child to school wearing a coat each day as the weather is getting colder. Thank you!
Year 2
Autumn Term Knowledge Organiser – 2025-2026
The latest Year 2 Learning Update!
In Literacy we are going to be writing a poems inspired by Mary Seacole. We will be looking at how to create verses for a poem.
In Maths we are exploring shapes. Looking at comparing and sorting 2D and 3D shapes.
In Topic we will looking at Florence Nightingale and her impact on nursing. In addition, we will be looking at how to read a compass and how we give directions.
In DT we are exploring the axels. The children will be experimenting with ways they could create an axel for their carts.
In Science we are focusing on what animals need to survive. Our focus will be on how their habitats effect their needs.
The Year 2 team would like to remind you to support your children in learning their lines for the production, as well as the songs, which have been uploaded to Google Classroom.
