In addition we use our children, their interests, and the rural community in which we are a proud of, to stimulate learning within the wider curriculum. 

As a Church School, we use the Kent Agreed Syllabus with planning provided by the Diocese of Canterbury, to give our children opportunity to explore the Christian faith as well as other World Religions and develop spiritually and emotionally.

Phonics

Free resources Letters and sounds http://www.letters-and-sounds.com/

Reading

Teachers model reading strategies during shared reading sessions, whilst children have the opportunity to develop reading strategies and to discuss texts in detail during guided reading sessions. In KS1 children also have the opportunity to read 1-1 with an adult at least once a week. As the children move through the school, opportunities to read independently for a sustained period of time are afforded to them.

A variety of banded reading scheme books such as The Oxford Reading Tree Scheme and Rigby Rockets are primarily used to support early readers as well as book banded ‘real books’ used for guided reading. Teaching assistants support reading activities to ensure that children have more frequent opportunities to read with adults.

We use Reading Records to monitor reading at home and children have regular opportunities to use our inviting and well-resourced school library. 

Supporting your child to read https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-home/find-a-book/oxford-reading-tree-levels/

2014 National Curriculum (https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/national-curriculum-in-england-primary-curriculum) and the current Early Years Foundation Stage Framework (https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/early-years-foundation-stage-framework--2).

What does your child learn at school each day? Find information about our curriculum subjects here.

Times Tables Awards

As many of you will know, pupils in years 2 to 6 take part in timed tests which assess understanding, recall and fluency of the multiplication tables and associated facts. The scheme has been rewritten to ensure content and order are relevant to the current curriculum. The new list of awards are shown below so that you can see the order in which they come and which times table and award comes next. Please rest assured that pupils will not need to start the scheme again! If you have any questions regarding the awards scheme, please ask class teachers or Mrs Tanner.