Communication and Understanding
To continue to improve age related verbal communication skills and understanding through:
- Age appropriately extending our children’s verbal confidence, spoken vocabulary and understanding of language
- Expressing themselves creatively
Reading
To raise attainment and accelerate rates of progress in reading through a focus upon:
- Responding to texts both verbally and in writing
- Fluency, deduction and inference and the children’s ability to read with understanding at an age-appropriate pace
- Developing enthusiastic, effective readers who have a love of reading
- Using a range of decoding skills
Writing
To raise standards in writing across our school through a major emphasis upon:
- Improving our children’s ability to apply their technical knowledge of written language to their everyday writing
- Ensuring that by Year 6 all children have a knowledge and understanding of the 9 narrative types:
- Happily ever after
- In search of a goal
- There and back again
- Defeating the enemy
- Achieving the impossible
- Everyday life disrupted
- Chaos to calm
- Enlightenment
- Misguided
- Improving spelling
- An improved awareness of the reader
Maths
To raise attainment and accelerate rates of progress in Maths through:
- A continued major focus upon age appropriate calculation strategies
- A major age-appropriate focus upon number sense including fractions and decimals
- A major focus upon age-appropriate mental arithmetic strategies
