Quality British Education in Saudi Arabia
Key Stage 1 - August 2008
Dear Parents,
We are looking forward to welcoming your child into our classes in August 2008. We thought we’d let you know which topics we are going to be studying.
Reception
Term 1:
Ourselves and other animals - including 'Myself and My Family', pets, dinosaurs, wild animals and farm animals, mini beasts (butterflies, bees and insects)
Term 2
Traditional Stories and rhymes - including well known fairy tales, songs and rhymes.
Term 3
Transport, fruit and vegetables, keeping healthy and' People Who Help Us'.
Year 1
Term 1
Senses, pushing and pulling, camouflage, maps – reading, using and making, growing and changing (people and animals), how animals move.
Term 2
Toys and teddies (old and new), light and dark, growing plants
Term 3
Materials (eg: paper, rock, metal, glass etc), houses around the world, how houses and household objects have changed over time, town and country – use of land.
If you wish you can visit places and buy books during the holiday that will add interest to our topics. The children will be able to share their experiences with their classmates. It would be great if you could also collect pamphlets, leaflets, photos etc to add to our learning.
Year 2
Term 1
The Great Fire of London, keeping healthy, seasides – how they have changed and geographical features, plants and animals (particularly minibeasts) – life cycles and habitats
Term 2
'Tyrone Teddy’s Round the World Trip', variation between plants and animals (including humans), famous people – particularly Mary Seacole and Florence Nightingale, changing materials
Term 3
Castles, electricity, forces, islands
If you wish you can visit places and buy books during the holiday that will add interest to our topics. The children will be able to share their experiences with their classmates. It would be great if you could also collect pamphlets, leaflets, photos etc to add to our learning.
Key Stage 1 overview
At Dhahran British Grammar school Key Stage 1 includes Year 1 and Year 2, five to seven year-old children. We have two parallel classes in each year group and share a building with the Foundation Stage (pre-reception and reception). This is brightly decorated and our central corridor show-cases creative work from each class. Young children have access to a variety of themed play areas that reflect the learning they are engaged with in class. We have a variety of wonderful P.E. facilities as well as a soft play room, containing a bouncy castle, ball pool, a range of climbing apparatus and construction equipment to encourage children to invent their own apparatus. Within the early years building we have a music room, kitchen and Computer room, dedicated to meet the needs of our young children. Outside we have a large shaded sand area with climbing frames, swings and slides. There is a newly built garage that houses bikes and wheeled toys that the children ride around a tarmac track. This offers children the opportunity to develop the all-important road-safety skills.
Year One and Year 2 follow the English National Curriculum for Key Stage One, which provides opportunities to develop a broad range of understanding, knowledge and skills. Each class has a teaching assistant in addition to the teacher. Children are class based for the majority of their lessons, but we have specialist teachers for Music and P.E. Each week the children have a library lesson in our Learning Resource Centre with the librarian, where they learn library skills and check out a book to read at home. Year 2 children have a weekly Arabic lesson where they learn about Saudi Arabian culture and customs as a few words of Arabic! Children in Year 2 currently take the Key Stage One SATs tests in Reading, Writing and Mathematics.
