Year 1 at HeadStart International 8th October 2019

• Our Curriculum

• The Planning, Teaching and Assessment cycle

• Assessment – What is it? How do we do it?

• Planning lessons

• Teaching – what does teaching look like at HeadStart?

• Curriculum – Power Maths

• Teaching Phonics for Reading

• Teaching Guided Reading and Writing

• Wordsmith

• Our teachers

• How do we know that we are good?

Outcomes

‘Inspiring a love of learning’

Our Vision informs our curriculum design

Our Curriculum

• The HeadStart Curriculum has been created by us to be challenging but to also stimulate creativity and enjoyment

• A Broad and Balanced Curriculum

Our Curriculum

• In English we follow the Letters and Sounds and Jolly Phonics approach to teaching phonics.

• We have introduced a curriculum resource called ‘Wordsmith’ . This resource ensures that we have a consistent approach across the whole of Primary regarding the teaching of reading and writing

Our Curriculum

The DNA of our Teaching

• Formative Assessment – Assessment for Learning

• Summative Assessment – Assessment of Learning

Assessment

We have invested in a product called ‘ Classroom Monitor’ to support our teachers in assessing our pupils even more effectively.

This product gives teachers and management the ability to track every child’s progress and generate reports that enable us to quickly identify pupils that are not making expected progress.

Assessment

• Clear Learning Objective

• Success Criteria

• Key Vocabulary

• Lesson design – key questions

• Role of the 2 Teachers

• Differentiation – meeting the needs of each pupil

• Resources

• Lesson evaluation / assessment

Planning

This year, Year 1 has developed a ‘transition plan ‘ for pupils moving from our Reception classes to Year 1. The transition period also helps new pupils to settle in and get familiar with HeadStart learning and routines.

This is best practice in schools, and it provides a period for our pupils to make the adjustment from Reception and/or their past school to HeadStart by making them ‘school ready’ for Year 1.

Teaching and Learning at HeadStart - Transition

The Lesson Design:

• Homeroom teacher delivers the lesson to the whole class

• Pupils are confident in completing their learning

• Both teachers then work with and assist different groups of pupils throughout the lesson as required

• Homeroom teacher will then complete the plenary with the whole class

Teaching and Learning at HeadStart- Transition Period

Lessons taught by:

Homeroom Teacher Specialist Teacher

Teaching and Learning at HeadStart

In Mathematics our core resource is Power Maths which is modelled on the mastery approach.

Power Maths is a whole-class mastery programme designed to spark curiosity and excitement and help children nurture confidence in maths. At the heart of Power Maths is the belief that all children can achieve. It’s built around a child-centred lesson design that models and embeds a growth mindset approach to maths.

Our Curriculum- Power Maths

• In Year 1 the key focus is establish confidence in number and place value.

• This means pupils having a ‘deep’ understanding of what digits mean in a number, for example:

The number 25 is actually 20 and 5

• Pupils focus very much on concrete representations of number, number facts and addition and subtraction.

Our Curriculum- Power Maths

Term 1

Number – number and place value - Numbers to 10

Number – number and place value - Part-whole within 10

Number – addition and subtraction - Addition and subtraction within 10 (1)

Number – addition and subtraction - Addition and subtraction within 10 (2)

Geometry – properties of shape - 2D and 3D shapes

Number – number and place value - Numbers to 20

Our Curriculum- Power Maths

In Primary – taught in Year 1 and 2:

• Dedicated 30 minutes, 4 times a week

• Taught in Homerooms

• Pupil progress through the phonics stages through the year and spellings that go home are linked to the words pupils cover in phonics lessons

Teaching Phonics for Reading

• Wordsmith is a first language English teaching resource

• Wordsmith uses class books as a context for teaching English reading, grammar and writing

• Every unit of work begins with a book as a stimulus. These books have been especially chosen as they engage and excite our pupils

• Wordsmith promotes a love of books and reading, and from there writing.

• We have adapted Wordsmith to meet the needs of our HeadStart learners

Our Curriculum – English: Wordsmith

Our Curriculum – English:Wordsmith

Unit Unit Unit Unit

Fiction Unit 1.1

Guess What?

Poetry Unit 1.1

Sensational Senses

Non-fiction Unit 1.1

Who Lives Here?

Live Unit 1.1

Poetry Star!

Grammar lessons Grammar lessons Grammar lessons Grammar lessons

Introducing Punctuation

Introducing Sentences

Sentence Structure

Introducing Exclamation

Marks

Introducing Question Marks

Proper Names and the

Personal Pronoun ‘I’

Sequencing Sentences and

Using ‘and’

Introducing Sentences

Proper Names and the

Personal Pronoun ‘I’

Unit Unit Unit Unit

Fiction Unit 1.2

Once Upon a Time

Word Detectives

Poetry Unit 1.2

Pattern and rhyme

Non-fiction Unit 1.2

Why Do Elephants Have Big

Ears?

Grammar lessons Grammar lessons Grammar lessons Grammar lessons

Proper names and the

personal pronoun 'I'

Singular and plural

Select from further activities

bank according to the

needs of your class

Introducing exclamation

marks

Adding endings

Sequencing Sentences and

Using 'And'

Using the prefix 'un'

• All of our teachers at HeadStart are trained, qualified and experienced teachers

• This is achieved through our rigorous recruitment process

The HeadStart Teacher

All of our Homerooms have 2 trained, qualified and experienced teachers.

We do not employ classroom assistants.

We are unique on the island for this.

Our teaching model works very well…….

Staffing in the Homeroom