Key Stage 1
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"We are here to feel secure, be valued
and to learn"
What are the key aims of education at Key Stage One?
At Key Stage One, our aim is to ensure that the mission statement is lived through the curriculum that we offer the children. We are constantly striving to ensure that we develop every aspect of the child and to provide a broad and balanced curriculum.
We aim to take account of the different learning styles that children have and plan activities that will allow them to participate fully.
We aim for our children to be adequately prepared for the next phase of their education and to look forward with enthusiasm to the challenges that this will bring them.
We aim to ensure that they will be able to be literate, numerate children who listen and respond to their teacher. We will plan activities that develop the children's thinking and problem solving skills to allow them to be independent learners.
We aim to encourage our children to be enthusiastic learners by providing an exciting and creative learning environment.
We aim to provide our children with opportunities to explore the world outside the classroom and to become involved in the local community.
We place a high emphasis on the development of social skills at Key Stage One and we involve Circle Time and Class Councils to explore ways of developing the children's mediation skills. Through the provision of Golden Time we aim to develop and extend the child's awareness of the difference between right and wrong and of the need to follow rules.
We aim to ensure that the children leave Key Stage One with a positive self image and the confidence needed to tackle new problems.
How is the Key Stage One Department organised?
At present there are 128 children in Key Stage One and they are organised into 4 classes, 1 Year 1 classe, 2 Year 2 classes and 1 class of mixed Year 1 and Year 2.
There are 4 full time teachers, 1 full time classroom assistant and 5 part-time classroom assistants. We also have a number of parents who come into school on a regular basis to help out in the classrooms.
The curriculum in Year 1 is tailored to follow on from the work done in the Foundation stage and will initially link into the six areas of learning. The children gradually move onto the National Curriculum and begin to cover the 10 National Curriculum subjects.
The classrooms in Year 1 have also been organised to follow the Foundation Stage and are set up in areas of learning with the children moving around those areas for each different subject although they have their own home base and retain their own teacher.
Although the Infant department have their own hall and playground, they do have links with the Junior department and there are regular whole school assemblies which bring the two departments together and allow the Infant children to experience what it will be like when they become Juniors!
