Key Stage 1 curriculum
Key Stage 1 covers National curriculum learning in Years 1 and 2 (for children aged 5 - 7 years. This curriculum is relevant to children in Oak, Silver Birch, Willow and Sycamore classes. Literacy and Numeracy are taught as separate subjects, whilst the rest of the curriculum is taught through a cross-curricular termly topic, where possible. 
This page gives a brief explanation of what children will be taught in the Core subjects of English, Mathematics and Science. and what the expectations are for the majority of 7 year olds (at the end of Key Stage 1) These are extracts from ' A parent's guide to the primary school curriculum - Learning journry ages 3 -7' - published by the DFES. The full publication can be accessed through our websites page. English Speaking and listening: to think about what they say, choose the right words, listen to others before they speak,talk with others and share ideas. They take different roles in drama, tell stories, read aloud, and describe events and experiences. Reading : they focus on words and sentences and how they fit into whole texts. Children work out the meaning of what they read and say why they likeit or why they don't. They read stories, poems, plays, information texts in print and on computer screens, and use dictionaries and encyclopaedias. Writing : they compose stories, poems, notes, lists, captions, records, messages and instructions. They learn how to use punctuation to show the meaning of sentences, practise clear handwriting, and discover that thinking about patterns of letters and sounds helps them to spell words correctly. Targets for the majority of 7 year olds are : Speaking and listening - listen carefully
- show they have thought about listeners by including details to interest them
- speak clearly
- tell stories, and repeat rhymes and poems
- learn new words and use them in conversation
- change how they talk to different people, in a range of situations.
Reading - give their views about events or ideas in what they read
- read aloud and understand stories and information books
- use more than one way to work out the meaning of unfamiliar words.
Writing - write stories with a beginning, a middle and an end
- use writing for different purposes, such as lists or instructions
- use interesting vocabulary that suits the subject
- choose words and details to interest the reader
- write in sentences, using capital letters at the beginning and full stops at the end
- spell familiar words correctly
- use spelling patterns to write unfamiliar words
- shape letters correctly and write neatly and clearly.
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Mathematics Number: counting, calculating, solving simple problems and making simple lists, tables and charts Shape, space and measure: looking at, handling and describing the features of common shapes such as triangles, rectangles, squares, cubes, hexagons, pentagons, cylinders and spheres; describing positions, directions and movements and right angles; working and measuring with units of time, length, weight and capacity. Using and applying mathematics involves doing practical tasks and talking about mathematical problems. Children are taught to reason about problems and solve them. They communicate their thinking and results using objects, pictures, diagrams, words, numbers and symbols. They estimate and measure everyday items. They do sums in their heads, especially by imagining numbers and the relationships between them. At this age, children get into the habit of doing maths in their heads, without relying on calculators. Targets for the majority of 7 year olds are : Using and applying mathematics - choose a sensible approach to tackle a problem
- use words, symbols and simple diagrams to record what they do in a mathematical way
- notice patterns and describe them
- explain how they solved a problem.
Number - count, read and write whole numbers up to 100, and put them in order
- count on or back in ones or tens from different starting numbers
- tell if numbers are odd or even
- know that you can undo an addition with a subtraction
- know by heart all adding and subtracting facts for each number up to ten (for example, know the facts that 6 + 4 = 10, 10 - 4 = 6 and 10 - 6 = 4, 4 + 2 = 6 and 6 - 4 = 2, 6 - 2 = 4, and so on)
- know the pairs of numbers in tens that make 100 (for example, 30 + 70 = 100, 70 + 30 = 100)
- know that they can do addition in any order, and that it's easier to start with the bigger numbers
- understand that multiplying is the same as adding more of the same number
- double numbers or halve them
- know the 2 and 10 times tables by heart.
Shape, space and measure - use the mathematical names for common two-dimensional and three-dimensional shapes; say how many sides and corners a shape has, and if it has any right angles
- predict how a shape would appear in a mirror
- recognise turning movements such as whole turns, half turns and quarter turns or right angles
- measure or weigh things using units such as centimetres, metres, litres or kilograms; choose sensible units to use
- use a ruler to draw and measure lines to the nearest centimetre
- tell the time to the half and quarter hour.
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Science Children look at and explore: - life processes and living things, such as familiar animals and plants
- materials and their properties, such as wood, paper and rock
- physical processes: simple ideas in physics, taught through experiences with electricity, forces, light and sounds.
Through work in these three areas children are taught about scientific enquiry. The teacher or children ask questions, then the children work together to try to answer the questions by finding things out and recording their work. They think about the tests and comparisons they have done and whether or not these are a fair way to help answer the questions. They find out more about scientific ideas from books and computer sources. And they write and draw (sometimes on computers), communicating their work and their results in scientific language, drawings, charts and tables. Targets for the majority of 7 year olds are : Scientific enquiry - suggest how they can find out about a scientific question look for information they need (this might be by looking carefully at the world around them, or by reading something in a book)
- think about what they have found out and decide whether this is what they thought would happen
- look at and compare objects and living things, and classify them using words such as 'loud' or 'quiet', 'hard' or 'soft', and 'faster' or 'slower'.
Life processes and living things - describe what an animal or plant needs in order to live, and compare it with others by talking about simple features (for example, 'it has six legs, not four')
- understand that every living thing eats, grows and reproduces
- recognise that different plants and animals are found in different places (for example, ponds and woodland).
Materials and their properties - sort materials into groups, using words to describe their properties such as 'shiny', 'hard' or 'smooth'
- describe how some materials change when, for example, they are heated, cooled, stretched or twisted.
Physical processes - make a bulb light up using a simple circuit with a battery and a switch, and see how this is similar to the lights and switches in their home
- compare the brightness or colour of lights, and the loudness or pitch of sounds
- describe moving objects by talking about speed and direction.
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