Key Stage 1
Phase Leader KS1
Eduardo Serra
Year 1
Summer Term Knowledge Organiser – 2024-2025
The latest Year 1 Learning Update!
In English, Year 1 will be looking at a story with a familiar setting – The Storm Whale. We will be learning all about the story, including sequencing main events as well as retelling the story using our own words and actions.
In Maths, the children will build on their previous knowledge of counting in multiples of 2 and go beyond 20 up to 50. They will apply previous learning of one more and one less to counting forwards and backwards in twos. For example, two more than and two less than.
In Science, Year 1 will be learning about a new scientist – Ernest Everett Just. We will continue to look at animals focusing on identifying, naming and comparing according to their features.
We will start to explore our new topic by looking at beach scenes and objects found at the seaside. We will focus on drawing a number of objects using only lines.
In Humanities, Year 1 will are starting a new topic this term: ‘At The Seaside’. We will be looking at development of the seaside as a destination / resort .
Year 2
Summer Term Knowledge Organiser – 2024-2025
The latest Year 2 Learning Update!
After the Easter Holidays, Year 2 will be embarking on a new topic, ‘A Tale of Two Cities’. This is based on the two cities of London and Tokyo, Japan. The children will compare the two cities, consider similarities and differences through geography and historical events.
In English, the children are going to be writing narrative inspired by the story ‘Katie in London’. The children will be using their prediction and sequencing skills related to this story. We will also be dedicating time to maintaining tenses as well as reading for meaning.
In Maths, the children will be learning fractions. Starting with identifying equal and unequal and moving on to recognising halves and quarters of amounts. We will begin by the children finding halves and quarters of concrete resources before moving on to abstract recording of fractions.
In Science, Year 2 will be looking at the new topic of Plants! The children really enjoyed this aspect of Science week so they will definitely be engaged with this new topic. We will begin the unit by looking at the Key Scientist who is the botanist, James Wong.
In DT, we are beginning a new topic on watercolours and painting linked to the local area. The unit will start with the children expressing an opinion of two pictures of Brixton.
In Humanities, to begin our new topic we will be creating our cover pages by drawing two city sky lines as well as writing in Kanji to spell out the name of the cities. We will then explore lots of aspects of Japan from the culture to the food, allowing the children to explore and ask questions.
We hope you have a fun and safe break. Please complete the topic homework ready for our new displays!
