Years 1 & 2

Welcome to Lower School at Falconhurst School- Years 1 and 2 

Meet the Team: 

Ade Adepitan

Class Teacher: Mrs Young

Leah Williamson

Class Teacher: Mrs Tyler

Phase Leader – Mrs Loxley

HLTA & Cover Teacher – Miss Baillie  

Support Staff – Mrs O’Sullivan, Miss Tuting, Miss Jordan, Mrs Collins

How to contact us:
If you need to speak to your child’s class teacher, they are available briefly at the beginning and end of the school day. For longer messages or queries, please contact staff on Class Dojo – our online communication tool. This is where you will also be able to find regular updates and photos of children’s learning so please ensure you log on regularly.  

The School Day; 

8:40 – School gates open*

8:55 – School gates close

10:15 – Break

10:30 – Learning

12:15 – Lunch

13:00 – Learning

15:10 – School ends

*Early morning work begins as soon as the school gates open so punctuality maximises the children’s learning opportunities.

PE Days 

Elephant Class - Mondays & Tuesdays

Turtle Class - Tuesdays & Thursdays

Bee Class - Tuesdays & Thursdays  

Children should come to school wearing their PE kit on these days. PE Kit is part of our uniform policy and this is currently listed as plain navy blue: shorts/jogging bottoms, T-shirt and jumper/jogging top (cold weather). Footwear can be trainers or plimsols/pumps.

Library

Elephant Class – Thursday

Turtle Class – Tuesday

Bee Class – Wednesday

Children have the opportunity to visit the school library once a week where they can choose a reading for pleasure book for you to share together at home. If your child would like to change their library book, please ensure it is in school on the above days.

Reading at Home 
Reading folders are provided to each child which include a reading book (assessed at their level) and an orange reading record. We ask for you to read as often as you can with your child, ideally daily, and note down the pages read in their reading record. These folders then need to be returned every day to school so children can read with staff and also have their books changed.  

Maths at Home 
At Falconhurst, Lower School children are provided with a login to the maths app ‘Numbots’ where the children practise their fluency and accuracy of early number skills, including subitising, number bonds and counting in their twos, fives & tens. We recommend children access the website little and often so they can improve their recall of these foundational maths skills. Year Two children will also be given a login in to Times Tables Rock Stars in the Spring Term, once they have been introduced to multiplication in their maths lessons.  

Statutory Assessments 
Children in Year One will complete their phonics screening check in early June. This check assesses a child’s ability to decode real and pseudo (alien) words and scores will be shared with families in their end of year report.

Learning Pathways

2025-2026

Curriculum letter- Lower School Autumn 1