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Our Curriculum

Shipley has a continuing commitment to the provision of a broad and rich curriculum to ensure the children are fully engaged in their learning.

About our Curriculum

Shipley has a continuing commitment to the provision of a broad and rich curriculum to ensure the children are fully engaged in their learning. High quality teaching and learning experiences underpin the curriculum planning. Topics reflect local, national and global issues and prepare pupils for life in a rapidly changing world.
 
Our school has a 3-5 year curriculum plan, thematic and creative, adhering closely to national curriculum expectations. It encourages deep and immersive cross-curricular learning and is driven by quality texts.  We make the best use of our extensive and beautiful grounds, encouraging hands-on learning outside of the classroom in order to develop our knowledge and understanding and a healthy respect for the
environment. 
shipley_curriculum_information_2022.doc

Rationale for the approach to the curriculum
​(includes learning outside the classroom)


  • Enjoyment and engagement
  • Rich and varied cross curricular opportunities (connected learning)
  • Development of emotional well-being and self-worth
  • Development of social skills, team work and communication
  • Wider, deeper knowledge and understanding
  • Experiences, challenges, memories and successes
  • High motivation and high attendance
  • High aspirational beliefs – self and others
  • Personal development – confidence and resilience
  • Raised attainment - prepared for the next phase​

​Phonics and Early Reading

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Phonics and Early Reading
We teach phonics and early reading skills using the Read, Write, Inc. approach. You may have heard this referred to as Synthetic Phonics 
Glossary of useful terms

Phonemes: the breaking down of words into their separate sound components 
Phonemes can consist of more than one letter for example ch, oo, er, igh etc. In our teaching we discuss elements such as:
Digraphs: these are two letters that make a single sound eg: ar, ee, ou etc.
Trigraphs are three letters that make a single sound eg: igh.
Grapheme: is a phoneme written down.
Segmenting: where you break each word into its separate phoneme, for example ‘chop’ has 3 phonemes, ch/o/p.
Blending: simply putting those sounds back together to form a word.
Some words in the English language cannot be broken down into separate phonemes. These are known as tricky words and we teach the children to be able to read and know the whole word, for example, ‘said’ or ‘what’.
​There are 3 sets of Speed Sounds which progress through the 44 phonic sounds. Once the children have Speed Sounds 1 they will start to use the Read, Write, Inc. reading and writing programme which incorporates: reading words, writing words and simple sentences. This goes from Red books to Grey books which the children should complete by Year 2. This is accompanied by Topic texts and story reading within the classroom.
This link will take you to the Read, Write, Inc. website where you can find more information and helpful hints.

Maths

Below you will find useful information, methods and examples of the way we teach maths here at Shipley.
The first booklet is all about Numicon, which is a concrete resource we use for the 4 maths operations: adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing. This resource is first introduced in Reception but has a continued use throughout the school. The booklet explains this and has suggestions for its use at home.
The second booklet is our progression in calculation, which matches the White Rose planning the whole school follows. This sets out how we teach the 4 operations: adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing and how they progress through the years. There are examples  and explanations of the methods taught at Shipley.
Numicon Booklet
Numbers Booklet

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Shipley Curriculum Information 2022-23

"The curriculum is effective. Pupils gain expertise in a broad range of subjects. No opportunity is missed to make connections between subjects and topics so as to deepen pupils' understanding."
                                                                 OFSTED 2018

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