Year 1

Birch Class
Teacher: Miss Lovely
Teacher Support Assistant: Miss Holland

Hazel Class
Teacher: Miss Thom
Teaching Support Assistant: Mrs Bennett

Poplar Class
Teachers: Mrs Smith/Mrs Lyons
HLTA: Miss Casey
Teaching Support Assistant: Mrs Foster
Class | Teacher | Teaching Support Assistants |
Birch | Miss Lovely | Miss Holland |
Hazel | Miss Thom | Mrs Bennett |
Poplar | Mrs Smith / Mrs Lyons | Miss Casey (HLTA), Mrs Foster |
Additional Year 1 Teacher (UQT) | Mrs Perry |
Year 1 Learning Narrative – Autumn Term 2022
We will start Year 1 by finding an abandoned egg and making predictions about where it came from. If you are reading this, please keep the learning ’Top Secret’ so not to ruin the surprise for the children. After the egg has hatched, a dinosaur will escape! We will send the dinosaur letters, asking questions in order to gain information for our dinosaur fact files. We will look into the life of Mary Anning and how dinosaur fossils were discovered. During the Autumn term we will have a big focus on our sentence structure and will support the children in understanding what a sentence needs and how to punctuate it correctly. During our maths lessons, we will be focusing mainly on number and understanding place value and begin to develop our addition and subtraction.
To see what the children will be learning, please click here to view the Year 1 English Curriculum or here to view the Year 1 maths curriculum. Details regarding other subject lessons can be viewed in our wider curriculum progression documents.
At White Meadows Primary we use the Read Write Inc. phonics programme across both Key Stages up to Year 3. This phonics scheme provides a systematic approach to literacy, both reading and writing, which is fun and engaging. This is supplemented with the use of phonetically decodable books from Oxford Reading Tree and the Phonic Bug schemes, along with a range of other texts. Further details on how you can support your child can be found on the Read Write Inc. website.
In addition to the above programme, we also use the Big Write and Big Maths schemes and Little Big Maths in Foundation Stage.
Parents are welcome to approach class teachers to find out more about the curriculum at White Meadows. The following link gives more details of the National Curriculum.
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/national-curriculum
Year 2

Cedar Class
Unqualified Teacher: Mrs Coe
Teaching Support Assistant: Mrs Copp

Pine Class
Teacher: Mr Morgan
Teaching Support Assistant: Mrs Cornwall

Rowan Class
Teacher: Mrs Newell
HLTA: Mrs Mac
Teaching Support Assistant: Miss Palmer
Class | Teacher | Teaching Support Assistants |
Cedar | Mrs Coe (UQT) | Mrs Copp |
Pine | Mr Morgan | Mrs Cornwall |
Rowan | Mrs Newell | Mrs Mac (HLTA), Miss Palmer |
Additional Year 2 Teacher (UQT) | Mrs Perry |
Year 2 Learning Narrative – Autumn Term 2022
As we return to school in September the children will be introduced to the ‘Wheely’ amazing world of ‘Wheels, wings and wonderful things.’ They will meet the quirky and funny character of Mrs. Armitage and her equally quirky and funny inventions. We will explore the use of imaginative language, alongside using ‘Talk for Writing’ strategies to write our own adventure and play with rhyming words to write a rhyming couplet poem. During our Maths lessons we will develop our understanding of place value and then apply this to our addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division units of work. In History and Geography, we will be learning through the inspirational life journeys of Amelia Earhart and Captain Scott. We will think about how we travel locally and will explore the concept of travelling further afield whilst learning about the seven continents and five oceans and through our computing lessons we will develop our understanding of Information Technology and focus our learning on digital photography and how to use a software program to create images.
To see what the children will be learning, please click here to view the Year 2 English Curriculum or here to view the Year 2 maths curriculum. Details regarding other subject lessons can be viewed in our wider curriculum progression documents.
At White Meadows Primary we use the Read Write Inc. phonics programme across both Key Stages up to Year 3. This phonics scheme provides a systematic approach to literacy, both reading and writing, which is fun and engaging. This is supplemented with the use of phonetically decodable books from Oxford Reading Tree and the Phonic Bug schemes, along with a range of other texts. Further details on how you can support your child can be found on the Read Write Inc. website.
In addition to the above programme, we also use the Big Write and Big Maths schemes and Little Big Maths in Foundation Stage.
Parents are welcome to approach class teachers to find out more about the curriculum at White Meadows. The following link gives more details of the Early Years and National Curriculum.
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/national-curriculum