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Wokingham - Important Dates
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Primary Curriculum:



PSHE

The Key Stage 2 PSHE curriculum supports students to develop the knowledge, skills and attributes to successfully prepare them for life. The curriculum provides the foundations for KS3 and KS4 and educates students on how to stay healthy and safe, whilst preparing them for life and work in the future. In KS2 students particularly focus on Zones of Regulation. This helps student to understand themselves, their feelings and how to support their regulation in preparation for their future pathways.


Maths

We aim to provide children with mathematical experiences which stimulate the children’s enthusiasm and develop their fluency, ability to reason mathematically and their ability to solve problems. In KS2, all the children are taught using schemes of work from White Rose Maths. The scheme supports a mastery approach to teaching and learning and supports the aims and objectives of the National Curriculum. When introduced to a new concept, students have the opportunity to build competency through starting with concrete objects and manipulatives before moving to pictorial representations. This learning can be used to solve problems, before moving on to an understanding of abstract methods. As with all our lessons, teachers work hard to ensure that maths is as engaging and fun as possible, so that students can reach their full potential.


Reading

At our Wokingham Campus, our vision is for all children to read fluently and understand a range of texts appropriate to their age.  Our aim is to embed reading across the curriculum. Every class has the opportunity to read to an adult, listen to an adult read and, in some classes, to share books in book talk sessions. This is to help foster a love of reading across the school. Book talk sessions are a fantastic way to expose students to books that they may not be able to access on their own. 


Assessment of Reading

Students are assessed using Accelerated Reader, which gives them a reading age and tests their understanding of books that they have read. Once students have moved on from reading books to secure their decoding skills, Accelerated Reader gives the students a Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD) which gives the students a readability range within which pupils should read to best develop their reading, while avoiding frustration.


Promoting Reading in School

We encourage all parents or carers to read at home with their children, whether this be listening to students read or sharing some form of reading with them. Reading at home helps create a love of reading and enables the students to recognise that reading is not just something that has to happen at school. Reading at home has amazing benefits: comfort and reassurance, confidence, relaxation, well-being, knowledge building and most importantly, it can be fun. If you would like any books sent home to read to or with your child, please ask their class teacher and they will be happy to help.


English

We aim to provide children with the core skills needed to read and write across all genres. In KS2 and year 7, all the children are taught using an approach that breaks down each genre of writing, exploring the features and covering objectives of the National Curriculum. Each unit allows students to build on skills which aides their confidence in their writing ability.
Our aim is to enable students to learn and develop the necessary skills to write for a range of purposes which prepares them well for further learning as they progress through the school.


Phonics and spelling

Upon entry to the school, all children are baselined to assess if they should be accessing phonics, spelling or an alternative programme to learn spellings and reading. If students are assessed to be working within phase 1-6 phonics, access daily flash phonics interventions for 10 minutes daily. Staff use the Twinkl phonics overview plan to deliver phonics interventions to students who have been assessed as needing it. Students are assessed after each 9-week intervention to see if they need further phonics learning or are ready to progress to Spelling Frame. If students are assessed beyond phase 6 phonics, they are taught a spelling programme from spellingframe.co.uk. This website teaches spellings by reading the words aloud for students, breaking the words into syllables and putting the words into sentences. . Parents can support phonics and spelling at home by reading with their child and helping them practice their spellings before their weekly test.