Robins

Curriculum

Children in the Reception year follow the Early Years Foundation Stage Curriculum and children in Year 1 and 2 follow the National Curriculum. We have a Foundation Stage unit in Dippers (Reception and Pre-School) where the children have an environment that is specifically tailored to their curriculum. Miss Reid and Sophie structure the day to ensure that all children in Dippers and Robins get the teaching time they need as well as the independent practice that allows their learning to develop. We learn through direct teaching, child-led and adult-led activities, all wrapped up in lots of play and fun in a supportive environment. All children will spend some time in both classrooms and our outside are but Preschool and Reception will usually be in Dippers classroom and Year 1 and 2 in Robins classroom.

Phonics and Reading

Reception and Year 1 children have daily 20-minute phonics lessons and lots of opportunity to practise what they have learned during focused activities and during independent play.

Guided Reading with an adult takes place once a week for all children in Year 1 and 2 and as the year progresses, Reception children will also have regular Guided Reading sessions.

Year 1 and 2 children will also have the opportunity to read independently for 20 minutes every day in school. Year 2 children will work on comprehension quizzes using our Accelerated Reader program.

Story time is a very important time of our day and we will come together to foster a love of stories and reading for pleasure.

Please see the homework section below for ways you can help at home with this.

Writing, handwriting, spelling, punctuation and grammar.

Reception children concentrate on letter formation and segmenting words into phonic sounds for a large part of the year. Later on in the Reception year, they start to write sentences and sequences of sentences.

Year 1 and 2 children will explore a wide range of text types to link their writing during the year and their reading and writing skills will be developed and extended through studying these texts in depth. The children will be expected to write independently, editing and improving their writing as part of the process.

Year 2 children will also have Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar sessions focusing on important tools to help improve their writing. Handwriting sessions take place several times a week for all year groups, starting at basic letter formation in Reception to joining in Year 2.

Maths

In Maths, the children will develop their skills through a mixture of direct teaching, including formal written lessons, investigations, practical activities and games.

Reception children are taught separately to Year 1 and 2 children but even within these groups, children are supported in their own maths journey and will receive the help they need to become secure in place value, calculations, shape, space and measure including time, and additionally for Year 2, basic fractions. In Year 2, children are introduced to the multiplication tables and will become  fluent in the 2, 5 and 10 multiplication tables.  

Understanding the World and Topics

In Year 1 and 2 we delve into Science, History and Geography topics. For Reception children this learning is delivered through Understanding the World activities. Please see the Curriculum Map for this term.

P.E. & Outdoor Learning

P.E.

PE will be on Wednesday with Mrs Bamber.

Children need to wear navy shorts and a pale blue polo shirt or tracksuit bottoms and tops in colder weather.  They also need to wear trainers. PE kits should be worn to school on the days that PE is timetabled. All kit should be clearly named please.

Outdoor Learning

This year we aim to take our learning outside several times a week. Forest school no longer has a set time each term but will be woven into the curriculum as appropriate. Maths might be outside, music, science or any other part of our learning where the children can be active and gain inspiration from our wonderful environment. We have enough wellies that all Robins and Dippers children already have a set of “school” wellies under their pegs. In addition to these, if parents could provide a set of waterproofs that they can keep in school it would allow us to get outdoors without worrying about getting school uniforms wet or muddy or smelling of campfires!