What does your child learn at school each day?
Find information about our curriculum subjects here.
Our curriculum immerses children in termly learning projects (TLP’s), which are designed to broaden their skills, knowledge and understanding, through a range of stimulating, challenging and memorable opportunities, encompassing each child’s individual skills and interests.
We believe that learning should matter.
We believe that skills should be developed alongside knowledge.
We believe that learning should be inspirational
At the heart of our curriculum lie five key principles:
Aspire: To aim to achieve or be successful.
Broaden: To understand and learn more.
Create: To make something new or imaginative.
Discover: To find information, a place, or an object for the first time.
Explore: To find out more about something through enquiry.
There are twelve Core Skills that underpin all that we do. They are grouped into Active Learning, Basic Skills and Creative Thinking.
Active Learning
Basic Skills
Creative Thinking
We believe that all of our children should be entitled to a breadth and balance of experience, knowledge, skills and understanding in all areas of the national curriculum and beyond, which is carefully structured to ensure it:
The documents below are intended to help parents see what standards children are expected to have achieved at the end of each school year. We use them in school to record whether or not we have seen a child work at that standard or whether we believe the child fully understands and can apply that standard across the curriculum.
Reading Eggs and Fast Phonics
Every child in the Infant school has access to Reading Eggs and Fast Phonics to support reading development at home. Log ins for these can be found in the front of children's reading diaries. See the introduction videos below. We encourage all children to use Fast Phonics in the first instance, as this is closely aligned to our phonics scheme in school.
Phonics Audio Guide
There are 26 letters of the alphabet but they make 44 sounds. Use the audio guide below to hear all 44 sounds, on their own and in example words.
https://cdn.oxfordowl.co.uk/2016/05/05/20/22/32/561/20097_content/index.html?id=ae
Learn to read with Phonics: a parent's guide
Find out how your child uses Phonics at school and how you can help at home. This webpage also includes useful videos on how to pronounce pure sounds and how to blend sounds to read words.
https://home.oxfordowl.co.uk/reading/learn-to-read-phonics/
Recommended Reading Lists
Here are a list of year group specific, high quality texts that we use in school to support our English curriculum. We encourage children to access these books at home, through the library service or online.
Supporting your Child read at home
Book Chat
Click below to read a document about what Book Chat involves and how to use it to support your child's reading.
Key phrases to use with your child:
Folllow the link below and scroll down the page to find videos of Book Chat in action:
Ben Harris (Teacher) reads One Fox by Kate Read for 5+
Richard Charlesworth (Teacher) reads A House that Once Was by Julia Fogliano and illus. by Lane Smith for 7+
Then have a go and try some of these ideas with your child. Enjoy reading together!
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