Academic Curriculum - English and Maths
Speaking and Listening
Our curriculum reflects the importance of spoken language in pupils' development. From early years in Class 1 rto Year 6 speaking, listening, discussion, debating and thnking is a core focus. Our Trivium ethos looks specifically at pupils' discusion skills and to verbally play with thoughts and ideas.
The NELI intervention, provided by NFER, is used by children who require additional help learn. We provide children opportunities to speak in front of others as they grow, including during church services, assemblies, and Year 6 pupils' own Easter service at St. Giles' Church.
Every class performs a show each year; the Nativity performed by Class 1, a topic themed play in Class 2 and a musical in Class 3. As a small school, this ensures all the children have 7 opportunites to perform in a significant role.
Reading
"Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing." Benjamin Franklin
Language is all around us, speaking, listening, reading and writing are the hardest skills we ever learn to do and communication is vital in all aspects of life, whether it be socialising and being kind or formal presentations and reports. We pride ourselves on speaking; asking questions, reasoning, debating and listening - this is dialectic learning.
We also love reading and have a clear mission to foster imagination, fact finding and the love of reading. We have clear progression paths and key steps to read for all children. Writing is a difficult skill and a consise and well-constructed curriculum map allows all children to write something worth reading!
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English Rationale | [docx 109KB] |
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Phonics
The school uses Read, Write, Inc phonics scheme. Children are taught daily in small groups from reception to Year 1. Please click on the link:
Reading Schemes
We follow Collins reading scheme. Children are regualrly assessed and all children are given a book band, which is tracked, until they become free readers. Reading is a passion at Coberley and we pride ourselves in recommending exciting stories for the children to read.
Recomended Books
We read a vareity of class bookls and whole-class guided reading texts which provide a wealth of culture, diversity, history and biographies in addition to a range of genre. Please also see a recommened text list below.
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parents reading information 22 | [pdf 140KB] |
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PrimaryAge-Appropriate Books | [pdf 298KB] |
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Whole class guided reading
We place a strong emphasis on whole class guided reading twice or three times a week in Class 2, Class 3 (Years 4 and 5), and in Year 6. The books and literature we selected are intended to expose children to a wide range of genres and texts, to commemorate important occasions or themes, and to go over previously covered historical, geographical, religious education, or scientific issues. For instance, sound is studied by students in Class 2 and will be covered again in Guided Reading in Class 3.
The teacher can read aloud to the class while also giving the children regular reading practise. Then, specific questions using the VIPER accroynm are asked. For example:
Vocab
Inference
Predict
Explain
Retrieve
Summarise (or Sequence)
Please see the attached example of Year 6 whole class reading curriculum map.
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Year 6 Guided Rading Plan | [pdf 140KB] |
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The reading journey at Coberley
‘I love stories!’ EYFS
‘’It makes me happy’ Y1
‘It makes me calm and loved’ Y1
‘Excited, fun, joyful’ Y2
‘I read to myself, sometimes I laugh and I cry sometimes’ Y2
‘Relaxed, happy, tired, warm Y2’
‘Really excited to turn the second page.’ Y2
‘It’s like a new world to explore.’ Y3
‘Happy and calm because I get some time on my own.’ Y3
‘Happy, excited, emotional and sometimes I feel like I’m inside the story.’ Y4
‘I’m there in the story and it’s calming’ Y4
‘It makes me hooked into the book’ Y5
‘It makes me feel adventurous’ Y5
‘It makes me feel I’m in the world they are in’ Y6
‘It hooks me in because your brain takes in the images of the book’ Y6
‘It makes me a lot calmer’ Y6
Writing
We want our children to love wrting. To create amazing stories, to create play scripts, song lyrics and poetry and to feel confident to jot ideas down to help think, plan and create.
We have a writing genre each term. At the outset we conduct a 'cold write' before teaching key skills, gammar and components of that genre before a 'hot write'. Both 'writes' are conducted using the same checklist to quantify improvement and track priogress throughout the school.
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Writing Curriculum Map | [docx 104KB] |
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Example of Writing Year 5 | [pdf 314KB] |
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Example of Writing Year 3 | [pdf 311KB] |
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Example of Writing Year 1 | [pdf 344KB] |
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Mathematics
At Coberley we aim to develop motivated, creative and resilient mathematicians who can confidently apply what they learn. Most of all we want children to enjoy maths and to get excited about the challenges the subject can bring. Maths is about learning new skills and practising these to become fluent so as to be able to apply them in real life situations. It is important to us that children see the relevance of maths and why it is needed in life. We set our children’s learning in context by making the links to real life, and across the curriculum, giving their learning worth.
- We teach the National Curriculum (2013) throughout the school.
- We use a range of resources such as Numicon to help learn practically.
- We use the White Rose maths scheme. The scheme of work can be viewed below.
- We assess using the NFER Maths tests. This tracks progress and identifies ares of concern.
Curriculum Map
We want our love to foster a love of numbers and logic. We want to produce engineers, computer analysts, accountants and mathematicians. We want our children to feel confident using and manipulating numbers and be happy to try and try again to solve problems and predict patterns. We ant children to perserere.
