Key Stage 1 2025 - 2026

Ms West

KS1 Lead

Golden, Puffin, Camelot and Hook

Welcome to Key Stage One

Ms West, Miss Eaton, Mrs Symes, Mrs Nakayama

You will find our Termly newsletters and knowledge organisers at the bottom of this page. These will give you an insight into all of the curriculum areas that we will be covering over the term. Please use the knowledge organisers as a tool to support your child at home. Any class specific updates will be posted on Class Dojo.

Spring Term 2

This term in English, the children will be developing their skills as authors by slowly writing a narrative based on the book The Flower, as well as becoming researchers when they create a fact file about Cardiff.

As Mathematicians, the children will continue to master multiplication and division before moving on to measuring and comparing length in centimetres, millimetres and metres, with learning carefully matched to each year group.

In Religious Education, the children will explore why Jesus is important to Christians.

As Scientists, the children will explore plants, focusing on plants, wildflowers and trees native to England.

In Design Technology, the children will be planning and making their own sock puppets, and to celebrate St David’s Day—linking to our Geography topic—they will also be making Welsh cakes.

In Music, the children will compose music by following our Charanga programme of study while learning songs for our Easter performance.

Events happening alongside our Curriculum

Careers Week – W/C 2nd March

World Book day – 5th March

Fair Trade Day - 30th March

Schools Against Waste workshop - 31st March

Easter Celebration at the Minster - 3^rd April 9.15am

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Our primary Skill Builders focus this term is Problem Solving.

Reading and Little Wandle

We use Little Wandle Letters and Sounds to teach or phonics, spelling and guided reading sessions. Although your child will be taught to read at school, you actually have a huge impact on their reading journey by continuing their practice at home. By then end of KS1, children are expected to read age-appropriate texts fluently and with expression while demonstrating comprehension by retelling stories, identifying main ideas, and answering questions. Therefore, to support this, we suggest that you should aim for 5 reading sessions at home each week. This could be your child reading to you or you reading to your child. Please make sure you record what you or your child has read on their reading record sheet.

There are two types of reading books that your child will bring home each week:

Decodable Little Wandle book

This book has been carefully matched to your child’s current reading level and they have already been exposed to this book in class in their reading sessions that week. If your child is reading it with little help, please don’t worry that it’s too easy – your child needs to develop fluency and confidence in reading. Listen to them read the book. Remember to give them lots of praise – celebrate their success! If they can’t read a word, read it to them. After they have finished, talk about the book together.

Sharing book of their choice

In order to encourage your child to become a lifelong reader, it is important that they learn to read for pleasure. The sharing book is a book they have chosen for you to enjoy together. Please remember that you shouldn’t expect your child to read this alone. Read it to or with them. Discuss the pictures, enjoy the story, predict what might happen next, use different voices for the characters, explore the facts in a non-fiction book. The main thing is that you have fun!

If you require any more information about Little Wandle, please visit their webpage: For parents | Letters and Sounds (littlewandlelettersandsounds.org.uk)

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