Assess The Importance Of Literacy In School
Literacy
Literacy is recommended to be taught for between 5 - 7.5 hours per week so makes up between 24 to 36% of the teaching week, however we have a heavy emphasis on Literacy and complete more than this during the week. It is split up into reading, writing, phonics and spelling. At my school Literacy is taught approx. 1 hour per day with an additional half an hour per day for guided reading. We ensure that our Literacy work is cross linked with the topic so that additional literacy can be completed in the afternoon sessions too. Comprehension is a main focus too and in addition to the guided reading a class taught comprehension lesson is taught. Each class has spelling focuses and spelling lessons are taught each week in addition to literacy …show more content…
And these are the key principles that we follow at our school.
The Science co-ordinator has developed a whole school coverage sheet to ensure that all of the areas of the National curriculum are covered throughout years 1 -6. Each teacher highlights the National curriculum programme of study, when they cover it and dates it. This is then handed to the next teacher to continue with highlighting. The idea is that by the time the children reach year 6, all areas of the Science curriculum should be highlighted, and some areas more than once. The whole school coverage uses the QCA headings as topic headings and teachers are allowed to use the QCA scheme as a skeleton outline for ideas, however teachers tend to add their own ideas and expand ideas to ensure that the science teaching is exciting and investigation heavy. The use of Hamilton plans is also used widely throughout
Literacy is recommended to be taught for between 5 - 7.5 hours per week so makes up between 24 to 36% of the teaching week, however we have a heavy emphasis on Literacy and complete more than this during the week. It is split up into reading, writing, phonics and spelling. At my school Literacy is taught approx. 1 hour per day with an additional half an hour per day for guided reading. We ensure that our Literacy work is cross linked with the topic so that additional literacy can be completed in the afternoon sessions too. Comprehension is a main focus too and in addition to the guided reading a class taught comprehension lesson is taught. Each class has spelling focuses and spelling lessons are taught each week in addition to literacy …show more content…
And these are the key principles that we follow at our school.
The Science co-ordinator has developed a whole school coverage sheet to ensure that all of the areas of the National curriculum are covered throughout years 1 -6. Each teacher highlights the National curriculum programme of study, when they cover it and dates it. This is then handed to the next teacher to continue with highlighting. The idea is that by the time the children reach year 6, all areas of the Science curriculum should be highlighted, and some areas more than once. The whole school coverage uses the QCA headings as topic headings and teachers are allowed to use the QCA scheme as a skeleton outline for ideas, however teachers tend to add their own ideas and expand ideas to ensure that the science teaching is exciting and investigation heavy. The use of Hamilton plans is also used widely throughout