For information on our curriculum please view the documents below.
Year 1 spring 2 parent overview
Learning Challenge Curriculum Keylearning questions WOW
Phonics is taught following the ‘Letter and Sounds’ scheme of work, this progresses in Phases from Phase 2 to Phase 6. ‘Letters and Sounds’ teaching is supplemented with ‘Jolly Phonics’ which teaches the children actions and songs to match letter sounds and help with the children’s recognition of the taught sounds. The children also play phonic’s games to help and reinforces sounds as well as learning to read and write them. Children are then able to apply phonics skills to decode and read books including ones from the ‘Oxford Reading Tree’ reading scheme which is followed through out the academy.