Croft Church of England Primary School ‘Achievement for everyone’ The aim of this evening is to inform parents and carers about: • • • • • 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? • • • • 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 o o o o o 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? • • • • • • • • • 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? • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 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 • 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! • • • • • • 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