Highfield CE Primary School Blog Feed - Year 1/2

Great Fire of London

Fri, 27 Mar 2026 09:16:27 GMT

KS1 have thoroughly enjoyed learning about the Great Fire of London.

World Book Day!

Fri, 6 Mar 2026 11:52:46 GMT

KS1 world book day

Panto

Wed, 7 Jan 2026 11:48:42 GMT

Thank you Highfield Family and Friends!

The Snowman

Wed, 17 Dec 2025 15:57:27 GMT

Happy Christmas and well done KS1

Class treat earned

Wed, 3 Dec 2025 12:43:53 GMT

Class treat!

Jack frost visits KS1

Tue, 18 Nov 2025 16:05:36 GMT

A frosty surprise!

Remember the 5th of November

Tue, 4 Nov 2025 16:20:04 GMT

Firework safety

Salads in DT

Tue, 21 Oct 2025 17:03:03 GMT

It was wonderful this week to practice or bridge grip and claw grip in DT.

Offspring learning

Mon, 13 Oct 2025 17:27:25 GMT

It was wonderful today to learn about humans as animals.

Creation

Tue, 30 Sep 2025 13:59:56 GMT

RE- Creation

Traditional Tales

Mon, 15 Sep 2025 17:11:11 GMT

Traditional tales wow day

Author visit!

Tue, 1 Jul 2025 10:46:22 GMT

The children had a very special visit from the author, Helen Dineen!

Outdoor learning!

Thu, 12 Jun 2025 18:07:12 GMT

The children created some art inspired by the book 'The Wild'.

Special Books - The Bible

Thu, 15 May 2025 07:19:02 GMT

The children in KS1 loved continuing their learning on 'Special Books'!

Fruit of the Spirit!

Wed, 7 May 2025 12:40:10 GMT

The children spent some time thinking about each of the Fruits of the Spirit with our Church leader, Hemmy!

Southampton City Mission Worship!

Wed, 2 Apr 2025 11:32:41 GMT

Visitors from Southampton City Mission led a collective worship with the whole of the Infants.

Prayer Space

Tue, 25 Mar 2025 10:39:43 GMT

Year 1/2 spent some reflection time thinking about the Easter story and the Christian values it highlights.

SeaCity Museum!

Thu, 6 Mar 2025 08:01:29 GMT

A fantastic trip to the SeaCity Museum!

Deep sea drama!

Tue, 28 Jan 2025 17:32:38 GMT

The children were very lucky to have a visitor from Perform who led a drama workshop.

Colour creation!

Tue, 21 Jan 2025 08:26:40 GMT

In art we have been creating colours with paint!

Fairy Tale WOW day

Wed, 8 Jan 2025 12:26:03 GMT

To introduce the children to their new literacy book 'Little Red', KS1 had a WOW day with the theme of fairy tales!

Hanukkah

Fri, 29 Nov 2024 11:10:53 GMT

Year 1/2 have been learning about Hanukkah!

Pondering Time

Fri, 18 Oct 2024 15:35:14 GMT

Pondering time

Animals including humans

Thu, 19 Sep 2024 08:48:56 GMT

This half term, the children in KS1 are learning all about 'Animals including Humans' in science! So far they have been learning about the senses and body parts. They labelled each other, went on sensroy hunts and enjoyed finding out about how the senses help us to understand the world around us.

Year 2 Graduation

Fri, 12 Jul 2024 13:23:58 GMT

Tuesday was a special day for our wonderful year 2 pupils.

Music concert!

Thu, 20 Jun 2024 15:58:37 GMT

Year 2 music!

Phonics!

Thu, 13 Jun 2024 16:17:30 GMT

Year 1 phonics practise!

Narrative writing!

Fri, 17 May 2024 12:10:52 GMT

'The dark' by Lemony Snicket

Science museum!

Thu, 25 Apr 2024 12:32:10 GMT

Year 1/2 had the most exciting time on their trip to the Winchester Science Museum!

Cartography Crazy!

Tue, 16 Apr 2024 12:05:41 GMT

Year 1/2 have been reading maps to locate Mumbai and Southampton in the world!

Great Fire of London!

Thu, 21 Mar 2024 16:16:04 GMT

To conclude the children's learning on the Great Fire of London, KS1 re-enacted the event!

Sublime Science

Tue, 5 Mar 2024 08:49:22 GMT

What a treat today was for year 1/2/! They witnessed some incredibly exciting experiments.

Culture Week

Wed, 7 Feb 2024 13:57:58 GMT

The children travelled around the world this week exploring different cultures!

Scientists!

Mon, 29 Jan 2024 08:07:24 GMT

The children have been scientists and set up their own investigation!

Outdoor learning!

Tue, 9 Jan 2024 08:46:44 GMT

To inspire children in their literacy writing, we spent a morning outside doing camping activities that the main character does in their class book 'Kitty and the wildcat'.

KS1 performance

Fri, 8 Dec 2023 10:38:33 GMT

An incredible Christmas performance by the children in year 1/2!

Evacuation Day

Wed, 29 Nov 2023 08:31:42 GMT

The children in year 1/2 looked amazing in their evacuee outfits!

Visit from Jack Frost

Wed, 15 Nov 2023 12:13:47 GMT

On Monday morning, the children came into school to see that they had had a visitor who had made his way into the school. He had left behind him snowflakes and icicles! He had even caught the teachers and made them freezing cold! The children realised the visitor must have been Jack Frost and he had left behind a story. The children were excited to read the story of Winter's Child and do some more learning about it in their literacy!

Sketching

Mon, 6 Nov 2023 15:41:23 GMT

In art this term, year 1/2 are focusing on developing their sketching and drawing skills. They have been working really hard on their concentration skills and paying attention to detail. This week they were practising different shading techniques.

DT Vegetable tasting!

Wed, 27 Sep 2023 14:51:41 GMT

Wonderful WOW day

Wed, 20 Sep 2023 13:45:57 GMT

KS1 WOW day for Traditional Tales

End of Ks1 plants topic

Tue, 27 Jun 2023 18:38:03 GMT

Today KS1 came to the end of their science topic on plants.

Oh I do like to be beside the seaside!

Tue, 13 Jun 2023 16:38:33 GMT

Beach literacy KS1

Goodbye Butterflies!

Tue, 23 May 2023 16:38:51 GMT

The butterflies need to complete their lifecycle and lay their own eggs now...

Beautiful Butterflies!

Mon, 15 May 2023 12:22:40 GMT

The butteflies are starting to emerge!

Fractions

Tue, 9 May 2023 16:12:37 GMT

Fractions, fractions are parts of a whole

Animal day!

Tue, 25 Apr 2023 16:32:01 GMT

Spirit of the Wild at the Infants again!

Hello caterpillars!

Tue, 18 Apr 2023 18:24:50 GMT

We have welcomed some new animals to our school this term...

Chick, Chick, Chick, Chick, Chicken, lay a little egg for me...

Wed, 22 Mar 2023 13:29:19 GMT

Eggs!

Maple reading treat

Tue, 7 Mar 2023 18:28:00 GMT

Maple got 180 reading points!!