Welcome to our Curriculum Meeting For Parents 2017 A big thank you to our wonderful PTA for giving up their time to provide and serve drinks

Welcome & fire safety (Mr D)

Aims of tonight’s meeting: To make you aware of the Curriculum guidelines for reading and for maths To familiarise you with how we teach the PoS in Hawes Down To enable you to see how we develop our children’s independent thinking

in the National Curriculum Reading in the National Curriculum The programmes of study for reading at key stages 1 and 2 consist of two dimensions: word reading comprehension (both listening and reading).

Good comprehension draws from linguistic knowledge (in particular of vocabulary and grammar) and on knowledge of the world. Comprehension skills develop through pupils’ experience of high-quality discussion with the teacher, as well as from reading and discussing a range of stories, poems and non-fiction. All pupils must be encouraged to read widely across both fiction and non-fiction to develop their knowledge of themselves and the world in which they live, to establish an appreciation and love of reading, and to gain knowledge across the curriculum. Reading widely and often increases pupils’ vocabulary because they encounter words they would rarely hear or use in everyday speech. Reading also feeds pupils’ imagination and opens up a treasure-house of wonder and joy for curious young minds.

The kinds of reading experiences our Hawes Down children have: Independent reading Shared reading of class books over a term Special readers groups Paired reading Quiet reading Turns in class reading areas (browsing & selecting) Turns in our new library (browsing & selecting – research) Reading to peers & younger children Being read aloud to by teachers

Reading for pleasure….. Special Reading

Journey

When danger arrives, will she be able to find her way home again? In this exquisitely illustrated, wordless book, an ordinary girl draws a magic door on her bedroom wall – and escapes on an extraordinary journey of magic and adventure. When danger arrives, will she be able to find her way home again?

Special Reading Strategies

Sum up Re-tell Infer Sequence Predict Retrieve Deduce Justify and explain

Empathise Likes and dislikes Make connections Picture ‘in the mind’s eye’ Share puzzles Evaluate Empathise

Implementing SUPER POWERS Becoming a Master of Maths…

National Curriculum “ The National curriculum for mathematics aims to ensure that all pupils: Become fluent in the fundamentals of mathematics, including through varied and frequent practice with increasingly complex problems over time, so that pupils develop conceptual understanding and the ability to recall and apply knowledge rapidly and accurately. Reason mathematically by following a line of enquiry, conjecturing relationships and generalisations, and developing an argument, justifications or proof using mathematical language. Can solve problems by applying their mathematics to a variety of routine and non routine problems with increasing sophistication, including breaking down problems into a series of simpler steps and persevering in seeking solutions.

What can you see at Hawes Down Junior School. Creative, exciting and varying Maths lessons. Depth of understanding shown throughout all lessons Children becoming all round mathematicians across all topics.

Representation Reasoning Fluency Variation

Superpowers… Imagining & Expressing Specialising & Generalising Organising & Classifying Conjecturing & Convincing

Fluency Reasoning Problem solving Expressing Specialising Organising Conjecturing Reasoning Imagining Generalising Classifying Convincing Problem solving Imagining Generalising Classifying Convincing

How it looks… Do it. Deepen it Secure it.

Do it.

Secure it. Mr Robinson says, “If you join two acute angles together you will make an obtuse angle”

Deepen it

Do it.

Secure it.

Deepen it km km

Final Stage…

Summing up from Mr DeFreitas Thank you for coming- if you have any questions, please fill in one of the forms at the back before you leave and we will publish answers on the website