welcome to grasshopper class (fs2)

At the end of the year, children will be assessed against achieving their Early Learning Goals in the following areas:

• Communication and Language
• Personal, Social and Emotional Development
• Physical Development
• Literacy
• Mathematics
• Understanding the World
• Expressive Arts and Design

For your child to achieve a good level of development in their Early Learning Goals they must achieve a ‘best fit’ judgement for statements in the following areas: Communication and Language, Personal, Social and Emotional Development, Physical Development, Literacy and Mathematics.

• Mastery Approach – Our maths curriculum is centred around a ‘Mastery Approach’. The aim is to ensure pupils have mastered and understood key concepts before moving on: using more difficult/higher numbers does not mean a child has a better understanding; rather, it is best that the child is able to access the learning in a wider range of contexts, the child can give detailed explanations and approach problem-solving tasks.
• White Rose – We follow the White Rose scheme to sequence maths lessons. This ensures that there is a progression of skills within the academic year, but also across all years. On the curriculum overviews, which are shared with home at the start of each module, the maths skills we are focusing on can be seen. On the White Rose website, there are home learning. If we have been learning to make 10, for example, you will be able to find an equivalent video to support further at home.

Click here to view the year r home learning videos

• Numbots – Numbots is a fun and challenging programme which is designed to help the children master their number bonds and adding skills. Logins are at the front of your child’s reading record book so that this can be used routinely at home.
• Multiplication – We encourage children to recall their number bonds to 5, as part of their Number Early Learning Goal. We teach them number bonds to 10 and doubling facts. This helps prepare children for learning their multiplication facts as they move to the next year group.
• Multiplication Check – Towards the end of year 4, all children nationally take part in a ‘multiplication check’. They are tested on all of their times tables.

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• Our Literacy teaching is broken down into Comprehension, Word Reading and Writing.
• Targets – All children are working towards the Early Learning Goal of writing a simple sentence. Children will achieve this by firstly writing simple words using the sounds we know, moving on to simple sentences.
• Core texts – Click here to view our core texts.
• Reading – It is important for children to read daily however this does not need to be for a lengthy amount of time or a strenuous task. Conversation around the text is just as important as word reading in order to help support comprehension. Suggestions of the types of questions to ask your children will often be found at the end of your child’s reading book.
• Phonics – In school we follow Phonics International as our phonics scheme. The approach is systematic and learning is broken down into a reading focus one day, and a writing focus the next, for the sound being taught. We match your child’s reading book to their phonics level. We pitch the books to a level that is appropriate to build up your child’s fluency and comprehension skills.
• Buster’s Book Club – an initiative that encourages the children to read at home. The class works collaboratively to be the class who has read the most minutes in the school. It encourages the reading of any reading material, not just the children’s banded reading book.

Check at least weekly for updates on the Google Classwork for suggestions of work to do at home to support your child.

In the event that the academy cannot open for any reason, lessons would be available remotely via Google Classroom