Autumn: What Makes a Community?
Our Enquiry
The below enquiry overview shows the week by week learning for your child's class in English, enquiry and maths. You can use the overview to see what your child is learning in school each week.Our weekly enquiry questions are:
- I know that I belong to Leamington Primary Academy.
- I know that Leamington is near the pit tip and has a park.
- I know that Leamington is in Sutton in Ashfield.
- I know that Sutton in Ashfield has a library, sun dial, shopping centre, Asda, and Kingsmill Hospital.
- I know that a map shows me where things are.
- I know that Nottingham is a nearby city.
- I know that I live in England.
- I know where the United Kingdom is on a world map.
- I know that Peru is a different country.
- I know that schools in Peru are sometimes different to Leamington Primary Academy.
Our Enquiry Overview
English
A high-quality text drives each of our enquiries and the texts are used to give knowledge and purpose to the enquiry. High quality texts can only be accessed through knowledge of vocabulary in different tiers. Explicit teaching of new vocabulary and using the classroom environment to showcase key vocabulary helps us to infuse rich and sophisticated vocabulary from EYFS to Year 6. The texts are used as a stimulus for both English and cross curricular writing, ensuring high expectations of our children. Reading is interweaved into all aspects of the enquiry to encourage reading and language development and promote reading for pleasure.
Phonics
At Leamington Primary School we follow the Little Wandle programme for phonics in EYFS and KS1. We understand the impact of teaching good phonics enables children to become fluent readers in KS1, so they are able to continue to access learning in KS2.
All phonics lessons throughout the school follow the same structure of 'revisit/review, teach, practice and apply'. Children are encouraged to use the correct vocabulary, please see the glossary below for the words that are used when teaching phonics.
In Foundation 2, children are taught phonics daily in a 20 minute whole class session. There are phonics resources and enhanced activities available for the children to access both inside the classroom and in the outdoor provision. All children in Foundation 2 will have completed Phases 2, 3 and 4 by the end of the year so they are ready to start Year 1. The links below provide appropriate resources for phonics.
Maths
In maths we follow the Power Maths programme to support children’s learning and to build a deep understanding of maths concepts. Power Maths is a curriculum mastery programme designed to spark curiosity and excitement and nurture confidence in maths. It is built around a child‑centred lesson design that models and embeds a growth mindset approach to maths.
This term we are covering the following:
- Composition of numbers to 5
- Comparing groups within 5
- 2D and 3D shapes
- Changes within 5
- Rapid recall of number bonds within 5