Getting to Know You KS2

Getting to Know You KS1

This resource consists of a selection of activities aimed at KS2 to help get to know your new class at the start of the first term.

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What's in the pack?:

• Main Activities
• Ideas for each activity

National Curriculum Objectives

Treasure hunt and Tower builder
Spoken language Year 1-6:
- listen and respond appropriately to adults and their peers
- articulate and justify answers, arguments and opinions
- give well-structured descriptions, explanations and narratives for different purposes, including for expressing feelings §
- maintain attention and participate actively in collaborative conversations, staying on topic and initiating and responding to comments
- participate in discussions, presentations, performances, role play, improvisations and debates

Jumping numbers
Maths:
Year 3 (Y2 objectives):
(2N1) Count in steps of 2, 3, and 5 from 0, and in tens from any number, forward or backward
(2C6) Recall and use multiplication and division facts for the 2, 5 and 10 multiplication tables, including recognising odd and even numbers
(2F2) Recognise the equivalence of 2/4 and 1/2

Year 4 (Y3 objectives):
(3N1b) Count from 0 in multiples of 4, 8, 50 and 100
(3C6) Recall and use multiplication and division facts for the 3, 4 and 8 multiplication tables
(3F1a) Count up and down in tenths; recognise that tenths arise from dividing an object into 10 equal parts and in dividing one-digit numbers or quantities by 10
(3F2) Recognise and show, using diagrams, equivalent fractions with small denominators

Year 5 (Y4 objectives):
(4N1) Count in multiples of 6, 7, 9, 25 and 1000
(4N3b) Read Roman numerals to 100 (I to C) and know that over time, the numeral system changed to include the concept of zero and place value
(4C6a) Recall multiplication and division facts for multiplication tables up to 12 × 12
(4C6c) Recognise and use factor pairs and commutativity in mental calculations
(4F1) Count up and down in hundredths; recognise that hundredths arise when dividing an object by one hundred and dividing tenths by ten
(4F6a) Recognise and write decimal equivalents to 1/4 , 1/2 , 3/4
(4F6b) Recognise and write decimal equivalents of any number of tenths or hundredths

Year 6 (Y5 objectives):
(5N1) Count forwards or backwards in steps of powers of 10 for any given number up to 1,000,000
(5N3b) Read Roman numerals to 1,000 (M) and recognise years written in Roman numerals
(5C5a) Identify multiples and factors, including finding all factor pairs of a number, and common factors of two numbers
(5C5b) Know and use the vocabulary of prime numbers, prime factors and composite (non-prime) numbers
(5C5c) Establish whether a number up to 100 is prime and recall prime numbers up to 19
(5C5d) Recognise and use square numbers and cube numbers, and the notation for squared (2) and cubed (3)
(5F2a) Recognise mixed numbers and improper fractions and convert from one form to the other and write mathematical statements > 1 as a mixed number [for example, 2/5 + 4/5 = 6/5 = 1 1/5 ]
(5F3) Compare and order fractions whose denominators are all multiples of the same number
(5F6b) Recognise and use thousandths and relate them to tenths, hundredths and decimal equivalents
(5F11) Recognise the per cent symbol (%) and understand that per cent relates to ‘number of parts per hundred’, and write percentages as a fraction with denominator 100, and as a decimal

Tower builder

English Writing Year 3:
(3G3.4) Extending the range of sentences with more than one clause by using a wider range of conjunctions, including: when, if, because, although

Spelling bee potential NCOs

English Writing Year 2:
(2G6.3) Formation of nouns using suffixes such as –ness, –er and by compounding [for example, whiteboard, superman]
(2G6.3) Formation of adjectives using suffixes such as –ful, –less (A fuller list of suffixes can be found in the year 2 spelling section in English Appendix 1)
(2G6.3) Use of the suffixes –er, –est in adjectives
(2G1.6) Use of –ly in Standard English to turn adjectives into adverbs
English Spelling Year 2:
- Learn to spell more words with contracted forms
- Apply the spelling rules for the suffixes –ment, –ness, –ful , –less and –ly

English Writing Year 3:
(3G6.2) Formation of nouns using a range of prefixes [for example super–, anti–, auto–]
English Spelling Year 3 and Year 4:
- Use further prefixes and suffixes and understand how to add them - see English appendix 1
- Spell further homophones
- Spell words that are often misspelt
- Add suffixes beginning with vowel letters to words of more than one syllable
- Spell more prefixes
- Spell using the suffix –ation
- Spell using the suffix –ly
- Spell using the suffix –ous
- Spell words with endings which sound like /ʃən/, spelt –tion,–sion, –ssion, –cian
- Spell words from the word list – years 3 and 4

English Writing Year 5:
(5G6.2) Verb prefixes [for example, dis–, de–, mis–, over– and re–]
English Spelling Year 5 and Year 6:
- Spell some words with ‘silent’ letters [for example, knight, psalm, solemn]
- Spell words with endings which sound like /ʃəs/ spelt –cious or –tious
- Spell words ending in –ant, –ance/–ancy, –ent, –ence/–ency
- Spell words ending in –able and –ible, words ending in –ably and –ibly
- Spell words with ‘silent’ letters (i.e. letters whose presence cannot be predicted from the pronunciation of the word)
- Spell homophones and other words that are often confused
- Spell words from the word list – years 5 and 6

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