Curriculum
Curriculum Intent
At Clore Shalom we have thought hard about what we want to achieve through our curriculum. We often discuss what we want for our Year 6 children when they leave us to go to secondary school. The points below explain our overall aims for our curriculum and each of our subject areas has been designed with these aims in mind.
- For Clore Shalom children to be tolerant and show respect for others.
- For Clore Shalom children to be responsible citizens, willing and able to play a key role in their community.
- For Clore Shalom children to show resilience and independence when faced with problems.
- For Clore Shalom children to be always striving to improve.
- For Clore Shalom children to have a lifelong love of learning.
- For Clore Shalom children to use their words to successfully self-advocate and express themselves in all situations.
- For Clore Shalom children to have pride and joy in their Jewish heritage.
Homework
As part of our commitment to encourage reading for pleasure, our homework in Reception – Year 4 is based around reading. Every child in school is expected to read for at least ten minutes per day and this progress is logged and checked every day by class teachers. Multiplication tables are also learnt for homework. In Year 6, children receive English and Maths homework every week to prepare them for the transition to secondary school.
Art
Computing
Design and Technology
English
Reading Spine
Writing
Master Readers Guided Reading
Handwriting
Spelling
Geography
EYFS
History
Jewish Studies and Ivrit
Maths
Music
Physical Education
Phonics
The successful teaching of reading and spelling is dependent on the successful teaching of phonics. Phonics is the understanding of how the letters of the English language (graphemes) represent the sounds of the English language (phonemes). The skill of blending individual or groups of letters together to make sounds is called phonic knowledge and is shown to be one of the most secure and best-evidenced methods of teaching children to read and then spell.
Synthetic phonics teaching is where children are explicitly taught the correspondences between letters and sounds as well as the skill of blending the individual sounds together to read. The term synthetic refers to the verb ‘synthesise’ meaning to combine. Synthesising sounds is necessary for reading, and segmenting words into individual sounds is needed for spelling. Our aim is that children will learn to read phonics in a way that is carefully sequenced; adaptive to their needs and progression; and geared in a way to make learning to read rewarding and fun.
At Clore Shalom 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! Reading will give your child the tools to become independent life-long learners.
We use the Little Wandle phonics scheme to teach phonics and children start learning in Reception, and carry on to Year 2, or beyond if necessary. You can find out more about the LIttle Wandle phonics programme and how you can support your child to learn to read at: https://www.littlewandle.org.uk/resources/for-parents/#tabnametabSupportForPhonics