Spring 2021 Curriculum Offer

CURRICULUM OFFER - Spring term 2021

Phonics

Live lessons in EYFS/KS1 (pre-recorded in Year 3/4)

• Continue with ‘SoundsWrite’ programme

Talk 4 Writing

Weeks beginning 05.01.21 & 11.01.21

• Revision and retrieval of previous learning from last term

New fiction unit week beginning 18.01.21 (3 weeks)

• EYFS = I really want the cake by Simon Phillip
• Year 1/2 = A Chair for my Mother by Vera B Williams (settings)
• Year 3/4 = The Truth Pixie by Matt Haig (plot)
• Year 5/6 = Ghost by Jason Reynolds (dialogue)

New non-fiction unit week beginning 08.02.21 (3 weeks)

• EYFS =  Instructions = How to make a chocolate cake
• Year 1/2 = Recount = The day of the fire
• Year 3/4 = Persuasion = A letter to persuade the Truth Pixie not to tell the truth
• Year 5/6 = Explanation = Why are some nations so good at sprinting?

Format for Remote Learning (live) - Talk 4 Writing (KS2)

• Retrieval from yesterday’s lesson (5 minutes)
• Teach new content (5 minutes)
• Check understanding - questioning or sentence writing (5 minutes)
• Address misconceptions (5 minutes)
• Short Independent Task - Short burst writing (5 minutes)
• Set the Independent Task for the day, highlight resources available (word banks, toolkits), set expectations for completion and uploading, take questions (5 minutes)

Format for Remote Learning (pre-recorded) Talk4Writing lessons (EYFS/KS1)

• Reminder of yesterday’s lesson
• Teach new content in small chunks e.g a sentence at a time, asking the children to pause the video and do their own sentence (DO NOT teach the content and then ask children to write the whole paragraph - remember this is NEW learning not revision of old)
• Model expectations for independent task clearly
• Set the Independent Task for the day, highlight resources available (word banks, toolkits), set expectations for completion and uploading

Maths

• Year group specific White Rose Maths linking to Maths No Problem. (See maths spines)

Foundation

First 2 weeks revision and retrieval of autumn term learning.

Spring 1 (starting 18.01.21)

Spring 2

Monitoring Work & Live Lessons Expectations

• Contact parents daily if children have missed the live lessons to ascertain why and provide support
• Message class every morning to remind that a piece of writing and some maths work needs to be uploaded to Google classroom each day - ring parents the following afternoon if this is not done to discuss reasons and offer support
• For work uploaded - an acknowledgement will be sufficient unless specific feedback is needed to address a misconception
• TTRS/Numbots - checked weekly and phone calls if not engaging
• Accelerated Reader Quizzes - check weekly and phone calls if not engaging