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Your Teacher is: Francesca Cole
Your Teaching Assistants are: Laurette Clancey
At St Barnabas, we follow the Development Matters document to assess the progress and attainment of our pupils. Our Learning Journeys collect a range of evidence to support our judgments on the characteristics of learning. Alongside literacy and mathematics, we deliver the International Early Years Curriculum (IEYC). Through this curriculum, children make connections with their learning. The more connections children make, the better they learn! This year will study the following units this term:
Autumn: This is Me, Dinosaur Detectives
Spring: Ocean Treasures
Summer: The Brilliant Bug Ball, The World Around Us
Please refer to the ‘Parents Letters’ below for more information.
Here at St Barnabas, we are fully aware that children learn and develop from birth to 5 years more than at any other time in their life. Therefore, we are invested in providing the best possible start for our littlest children, to support them in their education and success in the future.
We know that Early Years is a journey and recognise the important role that parents and carers play in helping our children thrive and the significant impact that they can have on their learning.
At St Barnabas, we aim to encourage all of our parents to talk, play and read with their children. We are so grateful for the Shine Trust in supporting us to provide meaningful opportunities for our Early Years staff to share the EYFS framework with families and provide ideas and resources to support and continue their learning journey at home.
We understand that parents can face barriers, such as time and understanding what more they can do to help their child. Therefore, our parent hub sessions are going to be a fantastic opportunity where we can all learn together, and build strong connections with our families.’
At St Barnabas, we aim for all our children to become fluent, confident readers who are passionate about reading.
Children who read regularly or are read to regularly have the opportunity to open the doors to so many different worlds! More importantly, reading will give your child the tools to become independent life-long learners.
We use the Read Write Inc (RWI) Programme to get children off to a flying start with their literacy skills. RWI is a method of teaching reading and writing that is centred around learning through phonics.
Read Write Inc (RWI) is a phonics complete literacy programme which helps all children learn to read fluently and at speed so they can focus on developing their skills in comprehension, vocabulary and spelling. The programme is designed for children aged 4-7, however at Willow Tree, we continue teaching RWI to children beyond the age of 7 if they still need support in their reading.
RWI sessions happen daily at Willow Tree Primary School. All children are assessed half-termly and put into appropriate groups designed to challenge them and help them progress in their reading and writing skills. The children work with other children who are at the same level as them in order to allow complete participation in lessons.
Purpose – know the purpose of every activity and share it with the children, so they know the one thing they should be thinking about
Participation – ensure every child participates throughout the lesson. Partnership work is fundamental to learning
Praise – ensure children are praised for effort and learning, not ability
Pace – teach at an effective pace and devote every moment to teaching and learning
Passion – be passionate about teaching so children can be engaged emotionally.
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At St Barnabas our intent is to develop confident mathematicians, who can reason, problem-solve and apply their knowledge and skills across a range of contexts in the real world.
We use Power Maths across school.
Power Maths is a UK curriculum mastery program designed to spark curiosity and excitement and nurture confidence in maths. It is:
For further information and support check out our Mathematics page under Learning.
