Key Stage 2

And it's very, very jam-packed.

They did a book look with Key Stage 1 and a book look with Key Stage 2.

And that went well.

You never know what the children are going to say in those things.

So we always work with the schools to see where they are in the curriculum.

And some of them will go, right, we want to look at, I don't know, Key Stage 2, History, Iron Age.

So we'll implement Key Stage 2, Iron Age Day on the Moulton Hills.

Some will just go, right, we want it to be linked to our core values of resilience, teamwork, support.

So we will adapt and we will change the activities so we hit those key aims and objectives.

The idea that when you're in EYFS, you're focusing on family, identity, what it means to be a friend and relate to people.

And then as you go through Key Stage 2, you can start to think about the...

some of the big problems, the big questions that come with identity and belonging.

And then by the time you've got up to key stage four and key stage five, you're engaging with ideas of social justice and the intellectual critiques around the systems and structures that have traditionally upheld us.

I think one thing I often scupper with when I'm saying things like this is that my examples are mostly early years in Key Stage 1 because that's my experience.

But actually, I've taught in Key Stage 2.

I've done bits and bobs post-maternity when I was in my previous school.

I was placed into Year 6.

And I think that's why it's really nice having a language buddy.

And it's really... really nice using older children who've gone through that experience and asking them getting pupil voice in your classroom in your school getting those students to say what helped you on your first day can you remember and what you know what was useful what wasn't useful What could we change next year for new children in our class, in our school? And, you know, get the children in Key Stage 2 or Key Stage 3 involved in getting the welcome pack and the materials ready for the new family.

Yeah, it's a lovely idea.

Thank you.

But we're absolutely not expecting our youngest children to be interacting very much with AI from that perspective.

But certainly going through Key Stage 2, we want our children to be really critical thinkers when it comes to AI.

The prompts they're putting in, are they the right prompts? The output's coming out.

What reliability, what bias there is.

I mean, 20 years ago, after I'd achieved the degree, I set up a business and that business became the first business in the UK that was using forensic science as an engagement tool.

And that delivered workshops to Key Stage 2, Key Stage 3, Key Stage 4 and all around the UK.

I ended up in Australia and India.

It was highly successful.

100%.

The idea of universal free school meals has been touted for primary schools, you know, and for extending that rollout, making sure that it spreads outside of Key Stage 1 and up into Key Stage 2 in various different places at various different points.

In everybody's view, I think, universal free school meals, something that there's no stigma.

Everybody sits down, they go to school, lunch is lunch that's there.

And not all of the international sort of primary schools will have covered those in the September or October before you sit your exam in November.

So that's where something like tuition or a bit of extra preparation in mathematics, because you could be seeing things from the whole of the Key Stage 2 curriculum.

And the same with the English.

The English is, again, it's a second element to it.