The Curriculum

The children in Year 1 and Year 2 are known as Key Stage 1. Teaching is tailored to build on the learning which has taken place in the Foundation Stage and ensures a wide range of learning opportunities designed to extend academic achievement and to foster individual development in each child. Across the whole curriculum, we develop children’s own learning skills such as independence, problem-solving, teamwork, concentration, perseverance and self-motivation.

Careful assessment and record-keeping allow us to track each child’s progress and ensures continuity and progression in learning. A programme of continuous assessment forms the basis of the teachers’ planning and the school has proved itself strong on the early identification of those pupils needing extra support, as well as the higher achievers. This ensures that the needs of individual children are met in all areas of the curriculum. Our approach to any more formal testing of children’s learning is to make the experience as comfortable and non-threatening as possible. At the end of Year 2 (the end of Key Stage 1) children participate in the Standard Assessment Tests, or SATs, and the individual results are shared with parents. All results are verified and endorsed by Surrey Local Education Authority.

Across the curriculum, we maintain high quality teaching, using a range of teaching strategies. Our curriculum is flexible allowing it to be tailored to the interests and needs of the children. We set high expectations matched carefully to children’s abilities to ensure core skills are embedded and applied in a range of cross curricular situations, and we integrate Computing to enhance learning wherever appropriate.

Literacy

We aim that all children will read and write with enjoyment, confidence, independence, fluency and understanding. We teach children to

-develop their powers of imagination, inventiveness and critical awareness through their reading and writing

-become confident speakers and attentive listeners

-enjoy writing in a range of genres in fiction and poetry

-understand, use and be able to write a range of non-fiction texts

-plan, draft, revise and edit their own writing

-understand the sound and spelling system and use this to read and spell accurately

-have fluent and legible handwriting