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Curriculum Key Stage 1 |
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From September 2014 the school started to deliver a new curriculum in line with the new national initiatives. For full details see the National Curriculum Framework.
Developing independence,and an ability to remain focused, becomes a key feature to a child's learning as they move on into Years 1 and 2. This is a crucial stage in a child's development of knowledge and skills in subjects such as maths, writing and reading. Writing is taught through the 'Talk for Writing' approach and involves children learning a text before changing it and eventually writing in the same style. Our maths approach follows the national framework guidelines and focuses heavily on arithmetic for the first term and then the children apply these skills to reasoning and maths problems from the Spring Term onward. Details of reading and phonics teaching can be found at the bottom of this page.
Much of the curriculum is taught through cross-curricular links based around class topics and opportunities to learn in many different ways are provided. Communication with parents continues to be highly valued and we seek your involvement at the end of each topic with an end product event. These events are an opportunity at the end of a topic for parents to view children's work, see a performance or take part in some joint learning tasks. To ensure full coverage of the curriculum the topics taught in Key Stage 1 are through a two year rolling cycle as shown in the tables below:
Developing independence,and an ability to remain focused, becomes a key feature to a child's learning as they move on into Years 1 and 2. This is a crucial stage in a child's development of knowledge and skills in subjects such as maths, writing and reading. Writing is taught through the 'Talk for Writing' approach and involves children learning a text before changing it and eventually writing in the same style. Our maths approach follows the national framework guidelines and focuses heavily on arithmetic for the first term and then the children apply these skills to reasoning and maths problems from the Spring Term onward. Details of reading and phonics teaching can be found at the bottom of this page.
Much of the curriculum is taught through cross-curricular links based around class topics and opportunities to learn in many different ways are provided. Communication with parents continues to be highly valued and we seek your involvement at the end of each topic with an end product event. These events are an opportunity at the end of a topic for parents to view children's work, see a performance or take part in some joint learning tasks. To ensure full coverage of the curriculum the topics taught in Key Stage 1 are through a two year rolling cycle as shown in the tables below:
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Reading in KS1
Reading in KS1 at Cossington C.E. Primary School.
At Cossington Reading is taught in three ways at Key Stage 1. The skills of decoding words are taught daily for twenty minutes through the phonics scheme (See section on teaching of phonics). Understanding and comprehension of texts is taught daily through guided reading sessions and within English lessons. These lessons teach children how to search for information in texts, answer questions about what they have read, understand unfamiliar ideas and learn strategies for working out the meaning of unfamiliar words. Finally children practise their decoding and comprehension skills through reading one to one with adults. This may be the class teacher, LSA or other school based adult. We also request that children practise reading at home at least three times a week with an adult to secure the skills they have been learning in school. At Key Stage 1 children take books home from our Key Stage 1 library and are given opportunities to change their books regularly through the week. The library is banded into colours based on the difficulty of the text and children are directed by the teacher to what colour is appropriate for them to select books from. The colour bands contain books from a wide range of reading schemes including Oxford Reading Tree, Project X and Bug Club. Children receive a reading diary for parents and teachers to communicate what children have been reading and how reading is progressing in class and at home.
Phonics at Cossington C.E. Primary School
At Cossington we teach the Letters and Sounds phonics scheme. This is a government recommended approach to teaching of synthetic phonics that is aimed at ensuring children can decode and spell a wide range of words by the end of Key Stage 1. Phonics is delivered from entry to the school at Foundation Stage through to Year 2. Any children not completing the scheme will receive further phonics support in Year 3 onwards through other interventions. Children are taught phonics daily for twenty minutes in groups of no more than fifteen children. These groups may contain children of various age groups as children are grouped by ability so that they receive phonics teaching that is closely matched to their stage of understanding and development. Children learn phonics through a range of games, active learning and interactive teaching activities designed by the class teachers. Teachers assess children at least once every half term in phonics and children move between groups as needed. At the end of Year 1 children are tested for their phonic ability according to government guidelines through the statutory phonics screening test. Parents will be informed of the result of this test in a letter at the end of year will the child’s school report.
Reading in KS1 at Cossington C.E. Primary School.
At Cossington Reading is taught in three ways at Key Stage 1. The skills of decoding words are taught daily for twenty minutes through the phonics scheme (See section on teaching of phonics). Understanding and comprehension of texts is taught daily through guided reading sessions and within English lessons. These lessons teach children how to search for information in texts, answer questions about what they have read, understand unfamiliar ideas and learn strategies for working out the meaning of unfamiliar words. Finally children practise their decoding and comprehension skills through reading one to one with adults. This may be the class teacher, LSA or other school based adult. We also request that children practise reading at home at least three times a week with an adult to secure the skills they have been learning in school. At Key Stage 1 children take books home from our Key Stage 1 library and are given opportunities to change their books regularly through the week. The library is banded into colours based on the difficulty of the text and children are directed by the teacher to what colour is appropriate for them to select books from. The colour bands contain books from a wide range of reading schemes including Oxford Reading Tree, Project X and Bug Club. Children receive a reading diary for parents and teachers to communicate what children have been reading and how reading is progressing in class and at home.
Phonics at Cossington C.E. Primary School
At Cossington we teach the Letters and Sounds phonics scheme. This is a government recommended approach to teaching of synthetic phonics that is aimed at ensuring children can decode and spell a wide range of words by the end of Key Stage 1. Phonics is delivered from entry to the school at Foundation Stage through to Year 2. Any children not completing the scheme will receive further phonics support in Year 3 onwards through other interventions. Children are taught phonics daily for twenty minutes in groups of no more than fifteen children. These groups may contain children of various age groups as children are grouped by ability so that they receive phonics teaching that is closely matched to their stage of understanding and development. Children learn phonics through a range of games, active learning and interactive teaching activities designed by the class teachers. Teachers assess children at least once every half term in phonics and children move between groups as needed. At the end of Year 1 children are tested for their phonic ability according to government guidelines through the statutory phonics screening test. Parents will be informed of the result of this test in a letter at the end of year will the child’s school report.
