Reading is a key skill in accessing all areas of the curriculum and it is obviously vital for children to develop this skill at home as well as at school.

The DFES (Department for Education and Skills) has developed material to help parents and guardians to further their children's reading at home.

www.dfes.gov.uk/read

This website also has information on developing writing skills at home with your child too.

Read and Write together

Pronouncing phonemes

Letters and Sounds - DfES Programme

Maths is an area that many parents and guardians find difficult to develop at home, as methods often altered from the way in which we were taught ourselves.

At Grange we have a Maths continuum which details the progession in formal written methods for the four operations (addition, subtraction, multiplication and division). Although the continuum has an expected level per year group, children work at the level that is appropriate to their age, their understanding and their ability.

Naturally we follow the National Curriculum, but we endeavour to make it as exciting and relevent to our pupils as possible through a creative approach.

www.curriculumonline.gov.uk

We work hard to develop links between subjects that we cover so that the children are given the opportunity to develop their understanding and apply the skills that they have learned.

Each term, an overview is sent home via your child, detailing the main elements of the topics that they will be covering.   

 Many parents initially have concerns about mixed year groups. However, here at Grange we endeavour to treat each child as an individual. Work in all classes is differentiated to meet the needs of the children, no matter what level they are working at. We will be running a two year rolling programme of topics so that we can ensure the children have access to a full and balanced curriculum. 
This year we will be following the B cycle topics.