Years 1 and 2
🌟 Welcome to Year 1 and 2 at Gorefield Primary Academy! 🌟
Where curiosity turns into discovery, ideas grow into knowledge, and every learner is encouraged to shine.
Miss Rankin is our Class Teacher.
Miss Tanner and Miss Vargeson are our Teaching Assistants.
🔡 Reading and Phonics
Building confident, fluent readers
In Year 1 and 2, we continue to follow the Little Wandle Letters and Sounds Revised programme. Daily phonics sessions build accuracy, fluency, and confidence as children learn to read and spell unfamiliar words.
As their skills grow, children begin to explore longer books, develop expression and comprehension, and enjoy reading for pleasure.
📚 Each week, children take part in small-group reading practice and take home:
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A decodable book matched to their phonics level
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A sharing book to enjoy with family
By Year 2, children move from phonics-based reading to developing deeper comprehension, vocabulary, and a lifelong love of books.
✏️ Writing — Drawing Club and Curious Quests
Building imagination, creativity, and confidence as writers
In Year 1 children continue their writing journey through Curious Quests immersive, story-led approaches that bring language and imagination to life.
Through these adventures, children use storytelling, role play, and illustration to build vocabulary, sentence structure, and confidence in expressing their ideas.
In Year 2, we move from creative exploration to more structured writing, producing narratives, reports, and recounts with growing independence and pride.
🔢 Maths — NCETM Mastery in Year 1 & 2
Deepening understanding, fluency, and reasoning
Maths in Year 1 and 2 follows the NCETM Curriculum Prioritisation and Mastering Number approach. Lessons are practical, talk-rich, and carefully sequenced to help children develop a secure understanding of numbers and patterns.
Children learn to:
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Understand number and place value
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Use strategies for addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division
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Explore fractions, shape, measures, and time
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Apply learning to real-life problems and reasoning tasks
We use practical resources, discussion, and small-step progression to ensure every child masters the key concepts before moving on.
🌍 A Broad and Balanced Curriculum
Learning across subjects with curiosity and creativity
Our topics connect learning across:
🌿 Science
🗺 Geography & History
🎨 Art
🎵 Music
💻 Computing
🧘 PE
❤️ PSHE
Each subject helps children explore, question, and create — encouraging independence, teamwork, and a sense of wonder about the world.
🤝 Working Together
We value strong partnerships with families. Home learning includes daily reading, Numbots, Times Tables Rock Stars, and optional topic challenges.
We share learning and updates through Class Dojo, termly meetings, and parent workshops.
🌟 Our Belief
Every child can achieve amazing things when curiosity and confidence grow together.