Welcome to the Year 1/2 website. Here you will find updates about Aydon, Alnwick and Auckland.
Welcome to Years 1 & 2!
Click on your class to meet your new teachers and see your new classrooms:
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Key Information
Class Newsletters
- Alnwick Y1
- Alnwick y2
- Alnwick Class – Meet the Teacher and Class Information
- Auckland
- Auckland Class – Meet the Teacher and Class Information
- Aydon
- Aydon Class – Meet the Teacher and Class Information meeting
Current Topic Overview
Project Coverage Overview Summer term Y1-2 2022
KS1 Learning Expectations
Please see the booklets below which outline the key expectations that children should achieve by the end of Year 1 and Year 2. These booklets include suggestions of the ways in which you can support your child at home.
NX Year 1 End of Year Expectations
NX Year 2 End of Year Expectations
Useful information
Year 1 & 2 PE Days
| Aydon | Alnwick | Auckland | |
|---|---|---|---|
| PE days | Wednesday Thursday | Tuesday Wednesday | Thursday Friday |
- Please always send your child with a coat suitable for the weather.
- Please send a named water bottle each day, clean and filled with water.
- Please remember to bring your child’s planner to school every day so that when they read with an adult in school, it is available for teaching staff to write a comment in.
- Please, please name all of your child’s clothes, especially their jumpers and shoes!
Supporting your child’s learning at home:
We know how important it is to practise our learning both in school and at home. To find out more information about our approach to homework and links to the various platforms we use for reading, spelling and mathematics, please refer to our Homework and Home Learning page. If you need help with login details for any of these, please contact the school office.
2022 -2023 Our year so far…
As part of our Science learning, Mr Fleming who is a dentist, came to talk to all of our KS1 classes to teach us about the importance of taking care of our teeth!
In RE, we enjoyed a visit to St John’s Church. It helped us to consolidate our learning about the external and internal features of the church. We enjoyed meeting Rev. Barney who told us about his job as a vicar and we had the chance to ask him questions about why the church is a special place for Christians.
As part of Democracy Week in school, we elected our class councillors. There was a full election process involving candidates giving speeches and a proper vote to elect our class council representatives. We enjoyed voting in the booths and posting our votes in the ballot box to be counted.
In Science we have been learning about the senses and how they can help us. We enjoyed using our sense of smell to try and identify different scents in smell pots! Here are Auckland class smelling some very strong scents. Which smells do you like and which smells do you not like?
As part of our Portraits Unit in Art, we enjoyed looking at the work of Julien Opie and recreating our own portraits in his style. We enjoyed painting onto plastics and displaying them in our windows! Don’t they look fabulous?!
Our Year 2 pupils have been working on developing their place value knowledge. We have been learning how to recognise the value of each digit in a 2-digit number and partition them into tens and ones. To help us we have used lots of concrete apparatus. 
We have enjoyed exploring the artist Pablo Picasso’s abstract style of art. We used collage techniques to create a self-portrait by arranging different facial features in creative ways! Don’t they look fabulous?!
We had great fun enjoying the Inflatables which had to be rearranged from the heatwave in the Summer term! What a fun way to spend a Friday!
Archived Class images
You can view our archived class images on our website.