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• Nursery
• Reception
  
• Year 1
  
• Year 2

EYFS:

Within the Early Years Foundation Stage, children will follow the Early Learning Outcomes as they progress through Nursery and Reception. This helps the children learn and achieve in the following:

The prime areas are:

• communication and language;

• physical development; and

• personal, social and emotional development.

The specific areas are:

• literacy;

• mathematics;

• understanding the world.

• expressive arts and design.

At the end of Reception children are then assessed against the Early Learning Goals. 

Phonics

As of January 2020 we began using the Read, Write Inc. approach to teaching phonics and early reading skills, which occurs daily for up to an hour a day. The children work in ability groups across the Reception classes, which are informed by regular assessments. The children participate in a daily speed sound lesson, where they learn a new sound. Once the children have learnt several sounds, they will begin to learn to blend these sounds to read words. When ready, the children then work with a partner to read sentences and eventually learn to read simple stories within a book, which again will contain words that they can work out using their current phonic knowledge and skills. 

By the end of their Reception Year children will be reading the same short story three times over the week to help develop their confidence, fluency and comprehension skills.

Reading scheme

The children will be encouraged to develop a love of reading by bringing home a library book from the start of Nursery, and this will continue during their Reception year. The children within Reception will also begin to bring home books that tell a simple story through pictures to help to develop their vocabulary and storytelling skills. Once they are ready, the children will take home a Read, Write, Inc. Book Bag book. This starts with sound blending book, where they have to use and apply their knowledge and skills to read simple words and will develop onto books with short stories which contain similar words and sounds that they have been learning about in school. Reading books are changed weekly in school, and the book that the children have read in school is also set on the Oxford Owls website in eBook form to share at home. Home reading is a celebration of all the children have learnt in school.