Croft Church of England Primary School
‘Achievement for everyone’
The aim of this evening is to inform parents and carers
about:
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Changes to the national curriculum
Changes to assessment
OFSTED and SIAMS
Learners of the future…
How we are teaching the curriculum and what parents and carers can do
to help
At the end of the session, there will be a chance to view materials, chat to
governors and staff and share ideas about the school’s future…
Who are we?
• Our mission statement is ‘Achievement for Everyone’ and our ethos is based on Christian
values.
• We are a very popular, small village school with very close links to the Church and
surrounding community.
• Around 40% of pupils attend from outside our immediate area which means there are a
wide diversity of socio-economic home backgrounds.
• Number on roll: 110 + 13 place Nursery (smaller than national average)
• Very low % FSM and deprivation
• Low % SEND support
• High % SEND (Statement or EHCP)
• Lovely school!
What does the new curriculum look like?
• New National Curriculum is statutory in all
year groups from September 2015
• Old levels have gone
• Individual year group ‘expectations’
• More challenging than the ‘old’ curriculum
• The new curriculum is based on the concept
of ‘mastery’ and ‘enrichment’ rather than
rapid acceleration through levels
Imagine one
year harder!
What did the ‘old’ curriculum look like?
Pupils are moved on to the next level…
The new curriculum
KPIs are
Key Performance
Indicators! All must be
achieved.
Pupils are taught per year group and don’t move on beyond their year group…
Early
Learning
Goal
Y1
Curriculum
and KPIs
Y2
Curriculum
and KPIs
Y3
Curriculum
and KPIs
Y4
Curriculum
and KPIs
Y5
Curriculum
and KPIs
Y6
Curriculum
and KPIs
Early Years
Year 1
Year 2
Year 3
Year 4
Year 5
Year 6
Y7
Curriculum
and KPIs
Year 7 etc
Revisit
Consolidate
Enrich
Deepen
high support eg
instructions
Mastery
YEAR GROUP
EXPECTATIONS
medium support
eg beyond recall,
decision making
low support eg
complex and
abstract
(higher order
thinking)
What have been the changes to assessment?
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New assessments for EYFS, KS1 and KS2
Baseline Assessment from 2016
Phonics screening check – read 40 words and 32+/40 = pass
KS1 SAT tests - SPaG, reading and maths arithmetic and reasoning (May) and
writing and science overall teacher assessment based on work over the year
• KS2 SAT tests - SPaG, reading and maths 1x arithmetic and 2x reasoning
(May 9th to 12th) and writing and science overall teacher assessment based
on work over the year.
• End of year teacher assessments for all other year groups: working at
greater depth, working at, working towards
How will end of Key Stage results be reported?
Early Years
• Parents will be informed if pupils have not met or met the Early Years ‘Good Level of
Development’
KS1 and KS2
• No levels to report
• Pupils will achieve a raw score in the tests
• Raw score will be converted into a scaled score
• 100 will be the ‘national average’
• Pupil’s scaled score will determine whether pupils are above or below the national average
• Confirmation of whether pupils have attained the national standard will be reported to parents in
their end of year report
• More detailed information evenings for Y1, Y2 and Y6 parents after half term!
What have been the changes to OFSTED?
• Last inspected 2006 ‘Outstanding’
• New framework – much higher standards
• 1. Outstanding 2. Good 3. Requires Improvement 4. Inadequate
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Effectiveness of leadership and management – safeguarding and governance
Quality of teaching and learning and assessment – new curriculum and assessment
Personal development, behaviour and welfare – learning behaviours
Outcomes for pupils - progress and attainment
Effectiveness of Early Years Provision – separate judgement
What have been the changes to SIAMS? Mrs Lancaster
What makes us a distinct Christian school?
Welcoming entrance
Christian values
Community relationships
The Young Leaders Award aims to equip young
people to be the change they want to see in their
local communities, and through a number of
interactive lessons and practical challenges our
pupils will be involved in serving their community and
making a difference.
What have we done so far to meet the new expectations
and how can you help?
• Early Years – Mrs Prudhoe
• Mathematics – Mrs McManus
• Reading, Writing and Spelling, Grammar and Punctuation – Miss Rogan and
Mr Berriman
What is important in Early Years? Mrs Prudhoe
Letter formation and handwriting!
• Introduction of cursive writing or ‘sweeping letters’ as we call it.
• Each letter begins at the line and sweeps up. The children form them in sand, shaving foam,
paint, etc and then with pencils or pens. By this stage in the year many children are writing
independently and are spelling regular 2 and 3 letter words and some irregular words.
• Laying foundations for the older children to have neater and more fluent writing.
For more information about writing and reading and maths – see me at the back!
How is Maths taught and how can you help your child?
Mrs McManus
How has Maths changed in Key stage 1?
What’s different in Key Stage 1?
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Finding/writing fractions of quantities (and lengths)
Adding two 2-digit numbers
Adding three 1-digit numbers
Demonstrating commutativity of addition & multiplication
Describing properties of shape (e.g. edges, vertices)
Measuring temperature in °C
Tell time to nearest 5 minutes
Make comparisons using < > = symbols
Recognise £ p symbols and solve simple money problems
• Children will also sit two Maths SATs test at the end of Year 2, a reasoning paper and an arithmetic
test.
How has Maths changed in Key stage 2?
What’s different in Key Stage 2?
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Compare and ordering fractions greater than 1
Long division
4 operations with fractions
Calculate decimal equivalent of fractions
Understand & use order of operations (BIDMAS)
Plot points in all 4 quadrants
Convert between miles and kilometres
Name radius/diameter and know relationship
Use formulae for area/volume of shapes
Calculate area of triangles & parallelograms
Calculate volume of 3-d shapes
Use letters to represent unknowns (algebra)
Generate and describe linear sequences
Find solutions to unknowns in problems
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Children will also sit two Maths SATs test at the end of Year 6, two reasoning papers and an arithmetic test.
How is Maths taught?
True or false:
The number
fourteen is written as
40?
Reasoning
Challenge!
How can you help your child with Maths?
Discuss and use the
maths vocabulary
sent home for each
topic.
Challenge children with:
show me…
• Convince me…
• Same and different…
• Always, sometimes and
never questions
Practise times tables
and related division
facts.
Take advantage of practical
maths opportunities at
home: weighing and
measuring, telling the time,
using and saving money and
counting.
Practise the LEARN Its
each term.
How can you help us?
How has English changed in Key Stage 1?
READING
• Children are expected to read accurately and fluently without overt sounding and blending at over 90 words per
minute
• They will now sit 2 reading SAT papers at the end of Year 2
WRITING
• Use sentences with different forms in their writing (statements, questions, exclamations and commands)
• Using past and present tense mostly accurately
• Use co-ordination (or/and/but) and subordination (because/when/if /that)
• Add suffixes to spell words (-ment, -ness, -ful, -ly)
SPAG
• Children need to know and use the following terms:
Year 1 – letter, capital letter, word, single, plural, sentence, punctuation, full stop, question mark and exclamation
mark
Year 2 - noun, noun phrase, statement, question, exclamation, command, compound, suffix, adjective, adverb, tense
(past and present), apostrophe and comma
How has English changed in Key Stage 2?
READING
• Reading is now teacher assessed at the end of Year 6 as well as tested as a SAT
WRITING
• Writing is no longer assessed as a best fit level. Children now need to meet full set of criteria for their year group
to be considered as “working at” age related expectation
• Children must be able to spell most words correctly, including those from the statutory word list
• Maintaining legibility, fluency and speed in handwriting is a required element to meet national expectations
SPAG
• Children need to know and use the following terms:
Year 3 - word family, prefix, clause, subordinate clause, direct speech, consonant, consonant letter vowel, vowel
letter, inverted commas
Year 4 – determiner, pronoun, possessive pronoun, adverbial
Year 5 - modal verb, relative pronoun, relative clause, parenthesis, bracket, dash, cohesion, ambiguity
Year 6 - subject, object, active, passive, synonym antonym, ellipsis, hyphen, colon, semi-colon, bullet points
How is English taught?
Cursive
handwriting
Class novels
SPAGERCISE
• Hot and cold writes
• Writing linked to topic theme
and WOW experiences
• Variety of writing genres
covered
• Self and peer marking
• Drafting and editing
How can you help your child with English?
Paired reading!
Encourage children to
read a range of texts!
Encourage children to read
daily. 30 minutes daily is the
expectation for children in
Key Stage 2.
Encourage children to
write whenever possible.
For example: diaries,
shopping lists, thank you
letters and signs!
Support children with
learning SPaG
terminology!
What are learners of the future?
The plan…
1980s
classroom!
Task:
Build a curriculum
to meet these
demands.
What about the future?
What skills will prepare our pupils for the…
Learn to
concentrate and
stay focused!
Try hard!
Find out what
they are good
at!
Be creative and
use their
imagination!
Push
themselves!
It takes small steps to improve!
Be resilient and cope
with set backs, failures,
criticism, and rejection!
Understand others!
‘Christian values’
Thank you for listening!
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Browse materials and resources
Look at displays
Share your ideas about the future of the school
Complete a feedback sheet
Speak to governors and staff
Ask questions