Resource Provision Y1 - 1KS 2024 - 2025

Welcome to 1KS.

1KS is a resourced provision class for Year 1 aged children with an environment that primarily focuses on early communication and interaction skills.  Children in 1KS follow the same themes as our mainstream Year 1 classes, with their learning personalised to meet their individual needs and continue their progression from Reception, whether that was in our Acorns class or elsewhere. Most of the activities are child led, with a focus on their individual targets outlined in the child’s EHCP. Adults will also lead on other activities that are planned to ensure development and progression across key areas of learning.

We have a newly refurbished classroom for 1KS and a fabulous outdoor learning environment that the children access regularly throughout the day. 

Within our classroom, staff ensure the children have access to resources and activities throughout the school day that are carefully chosen to engage the children in their learning, which reflect their interests, and in doing so, meet the needs of each unique child.  Each week there will be some phonics, maths and literacy activities, opportunities to learn about the world, music, art and ‘messy play’. 

Each area of learning within 1KS has been designed and developed to promote opportunities for social and communication interactions to develop early communication skills. The experienced adults in the room consistently model to the children, using visuals, simple language and objects of reference to move children’s learning forward. Resources are carefully placed to support and develop children’s communication skills as they work with adults or as the child works independently.

Within 1KS we also offer an environment and resources that provide opportunities for emotional regulation, such as our cushion corner, with bean bags, blankets and cushions, and our sensory toys.  Within our classroom adults use visuals, simple language and objects of reference to develop and support children’s early social communication and emotional regulation needs. The space can be used to support co regulation to meet children’s sensory needs so they are therefore ready to learn.

Autumn

This half term we are listening to and learning about the story Troll Swap, and The Three Billy Goats Gruff.  We will role play the story, build bridges, paint troll masks and use the theme to help us learn in maths; identifying and representing numbers using objects and pictorial representations, and use the language of equal to, more than, less than, most, and least. We will start our Read, Write Inc phonics journey with games and first sounds. We will also learn more about our school in our topic "Where I belong" and in science we will identify our body parts and explore our five senses.