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