New swimming pool to open in Olympic year

Crosfields is delighted to confirm that planning approval for their new swimming pool project was granted by Wokingham Borough Council in January. The state of the art pool is the next large scale development project for the School.

English

Autumn term

Speaking and Listening

  • Take turns in speaking
  • Listen to others and comment
  • Ask questions
  • Identify and respond to sound patterns in language
  • Use and remember some main features of spoken standard English

Reading

  • Read aloud for fluency, expression and understanding
  • Comprehension
  • Re-read, learn and recite favourite poems

Writing

  • Fiction, Non-fiction and Poetry

Handwriting

  • Diagonal joins to letters without ascenders e.g. ai, ar, un
  • Horizontal joins to letters without ascenders e.g. ou, vi, wi
  • Diagonal joins to letters with ascenders e.g. ab, ul, it
  • Horizontal joins to letters with ascenders e.g. ol, wh, ot

Grammar

  • Text and print marks
  • Punctuation and capital letters
  • Sentences using a 5 point checklist
  • Use of time
  • Sequences, commas and question marks
  • Jolly Phonics spelling programme

Homework

  • Spelling lists will be sent home each Monday and tested on the following Friday
  • A spelling activity sheet will be sent home on a weekly basis
  • We suggest children do some reading each day: this could be shared reading, parent reading to child, discussing the contents / pictures, child reading from school book or own book from home. Please note in the home/school book if your child has read their school book so that we can change it.

Spring Term

Speaking and Listening

  • Take turns in speaking
  • Listen to others and comment
  • Ask questions
  • Identify and respond to sound patterns in language
  • Use and remember some main features of spoken standard English

Reading

  • Read aloud for fluency, expression and understanding
  • Comprehension
  • Re-read, learn and recite favourite poems

Writing

  • Fiction, Non-fiction and Poetry

Handwriting

  • Diagonal joins to letters without ascenders e.g. ai, ar, un
  • Horizontal joins to letters without ascenders e.g. ou, vi, wi
  • Diagonal joins to letters with ascenders e.g. ab, ul, it
  • Horizontal joins to letters with ascenders e.g. ol, wh, ot

Grammar

  • Text and print marks
  • Punctuation and capital letters
  • Sentences using a 5 point checklist
  • Use of time
  • Sequences, commas and question marks
  • Jolly Phonics spelling programme

Homework

Spelling lists will be sent home each Monday and tested on the following Friday

  • A spelling activity sheet will be sent home on a weekly basis
  • We suggest children do some reading each day: this could be shared reading, parent reading to child, discussing the contents / pictures, child reading from school book or own book from home. Please note in the home/school book if your child has read their school book so that we can change it.

Summer Term

Speaking and Listening

  • Describe events and experiences, focusing on the main points and including relevant detail
  • Show an awareness and understanding of topical issues and events, voice opinions and give reasons for opinions and actions
  • Sustain concentration and ask questions to clarify meaning during lessons and circle time
  • Extend ideas in the light of discussion

Reading

  • Reinforce and apply skills through shared and guided reading of fiction, non-fiction and poetry
  • Discuss and compare story themes, settings and characters
  • Predict story endings and incidents
  • Develop comprehension skills and inferential reasoning
  • Continue to extend the children’s vocabulary

Writing

  • The children will write sustained stories, using knowledge of story elements e.g. narrative, settings, characteristics, dialogue and the language of story
  • We will use humorous verse as a structure for children to write their own verse by adaptation, mimicry or substitution
  • The children will use a variety of non-fiction texts in relation to a short project (for example “Space”)
  • Investigate different ways of presenting factual information

Handwriting

We shall continue to work on the 4 basic handwriting joins

Phonics and spelling

  • We follow the Jolly Phonics spelling programme
  • We will also study dictionary skills

Grammar

The children will be taught to:

  • Identify the use of speech in texts and begin to use speech marks
  • Read with intonation and expression appropriate to the grammar and punctuation
  • Use the standard forms of verbs in speaking and writing, and to use the past tense consistently in narration
  • Turn statements into questions using a range of “wh” words
  • Compare forms of questions
  • Proofread text
  • Write extended sentences using conjunctions
  • Use suffixes and prefixes