Curriculum Evening9/10/19

TeamDenton• Miss Isherwood

• Mrs Holmes

• Ms Malone

• Miss Walton

• Miss Minney

• Mrs Law

• Mrs Freeman

Yardley• Miss Hayfield

• Mrs Evans

• Mrs K

We will cover:• Topic

• Phonics

• Reading

• Speaking

• Writing

• Maths

Topic

• New topic every term

• Based on the children’s interests

• Everything themed around the topic

Phonics

• Teaching of the sounds that letters and a combination of letters make.

• Daily

• Letters and Sounds/Jolly Phonics/Read Write Inc.

• Everybody progresses at different rates!

Letters and Sounds• 6 phases

• Phase One : Nursery• Sound discrimination: environmental, instrumental, body

percussion.

• Rhythm and rhyme

• Alliteration: Initial sounds: ‘I spy…’

• Voice sounds

• Oral blending and segmenting.

Phase 2» Introduce 19 most common letters (pure

sounds). » Letter names. » 4 each week.» Some digraphs such as ff, ll, ss, ck.» Some naughty words that try to trick us:

I, the, no, go, into (Tricky / Truck Words).

Phase 2» Jolly Phonics actions and songs.» ‘Read, write, inc’ letter formation.» Sheets sent home.» Sound sacks. Sound not letter!» Fun!

Blending• Combining letter sounds to read a word.• Blend to read.• Decodable• Robot talk. Sound buttons.

c u p

. . .t i ck

. . _

Segmenting

• Segment to spell and to write.

• What sounds can you hear in cat?

c a t

. . .

Phase 3• More letters.

• Digraphs.

• Trigraphs.

• Tricky Words

• New phoneme per day.

• Lots of revision and consolidation.

Phase 4• Consolidation and practise.

• Consonant blends.

• Str, nd, pl……

Writing

Writing

Writing

Writing

Writing• Pen grip

• Top to bottom lines. Anticlockwise circles

• Letter formation.

• Ascenders and descenders

• Words

• Sentences

Writing• Nursery

• Gross motor: malleable, large movements

• Fine motor skills: tweezers, construction

• Mark making matters!

• Pen grip

Reading at School

• Phonics sessions: words and captions.

• Guided reading x2.

• Individual reading

• Books are changed twice a week

• Re-reading is important

Reading at Home• Nursery: Quality picture book to

share.

• Reception: Picture books at first.

• Words when ready.

Reading at Home

• Five minutes is all it takes!

• Please make a comment in the reading record!

• Reading Stars – read 4 times a week and get a star. At the end of term prizes will be given out.

Speaking

• Make time to talk!• Talk Homework• Model good speaking.• Correct tense.• Correct mispronunciations.• Vital to writing skills• Show and Tell.• Vocabulary• No Pens Wednesday

Literacy

• Talk4Writing – learn to tell and create a story

• Focus on character’s feelings, adjectives, different parts of a story, story language and ordering

Maths• Daily

• Number

• Pattern

• Calculation

• Shape

• Measure

Number• We start low.

• Pattern generalisation and prediction

• Numbers in the environment

• Estimation

• One more/ one less

• Ordering numbers

Counting• Not by rote!

• Counting carefully: one to one correspondence

• Conservation of number: The number identifies how many are in a set.

• 1 to 5, 1 to 10, 1 to 20

Subitise

Number Formation• Number Time Daily

• ‘Ten Town’

• It’s tricky!

• Anticlockwise: 0, 6, 8, 9

• Clockwise: 2, 3, 5

• Zigzag: 1, 4, 7

Calculation• Addition

• How many are there altogether?

The symbols!

+=

Subtraction

How many are left?

Can you write a number sentence?

What are the symbols?

Shape• 2D

• 3D

Measure• Length and height

• Repeated patterns

• Weight

• Capacity

• Time

• Money!!

How can you help?

• Independence • Read at home – 4 times a week • Tricky words • Recap what they have learnt• Flying High and Learning Leaves

We would like you to come in!

• ‘Book and Biscuit’ sessions.

• ‘Board Game and Biscuit’ sessions.

• Curriculum sessions