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The lower junior staff try to make the transition from the infants to the juniors a happy one. Encouragement is given to ensure greater independence and responsibility for the individual’s learning, own possessions and behaviour. Parents are welcome to support the teachers in class and on school trips.

We hope you will find this booklet useful. It sets out the content of lessons throughout the year and indicates ways in which you might consider helping your child.

Children identified with special educational needs are supported by a differentiated curriculum to match their understanding and pace. Support is given by the special educational needs co-ordinator, teaching assistants and specialist teaching assistants.

Literacy

An hour of Literacy is taught each day, following the term’s objectives from the Revised Literacy Strategy.

Recommended resources for tackling homework are a thesaurus, dictionary and a personal reading book.

How you can help: Listen to your child read regularly and discuss the contents of his/ her reading material. Encourage your children to record good examples of beginnings, endings, suitable words and character traits that may assist with their writing.

Numeracy

The Numeracy hour begins with a mental warm-up, a whole class teaching activity and a ten minute plenary to reinforce the content of the lesson.

Recommended resources: A ruler, a watch (analogue), access to scales, tape measures and weights.

How you can help: Encourage & help your children to learn their tables. Discuss homework sheets and encourage mental arithmetic. Play shopping games. Carry out practical activities involving measurement, shape and telling the time with analogue and digital.

ICT

Access to the computer suite is time-tabled twice a week for each class, am and pm.

How you can help: If possible encourage word processing skills and familiarity with a keyboard and the safe use of the internet.