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Reading
Our aim is not only to teach the children to be fluent and confident in reading but also to be able to understand what they have read; fostering a genuine love of reading both
for pleasure and want all of the children who walk through our doors to be enthusiastic readers who can enjoy and critically appraise texts. Our daily Guided Reading
sessions give children an opportunity to practice, rehearse and refine the plethora of skills that reading involves.
In addition to this we develop a love of reading by inviting parents to our morning ‘Rise and Shine’ reading also have parent volunteers who come into school to listen
to individual readers on a weekly basis. Children take books home to practice and reinforce the skills covered in both class and those covered with the parent volunteers. Guidance
is giving to the parents on how to teach and support reading at home through our annual parent workshops. Reading at Mapplewells is just a way of life!
At Mapplewells the children followa comprehensive phonics programme, running alongside other strategies to help develop vital reading and
writing skills.Our aim is for children to become fluent readers by the age seven.
The teaching of phonics starts in FoundationOne, for 20minutes daily, and this progresses through Foundation and Key StageOne in
‘Phases of Learning’.There are 6 phases within the programme and children are expected to complete phase 6 by the end ofYear 2. Phonics
sessions are varied, fast paced,multi-sensory and provide engaging opportunities to develop decoding skills and essential phonic knowledge.
Phonics
Here at Mapplewells,mathematics is at the forefront of everyday believe that a high-qualitymathematics education provides childrenwith a foundation for understanding the
world, the ability to reasonmathematically, an appreciation of the beauty and power of mathematics and a sense of enjoyment and curiosity about the subject.
It is our aim to develop childrenwho are fluent in the fundamentals of mathematics and apply knowledge accurately and rapidly to a range of problems.This is achieved through the delivery
of dailymathematic lessons, daily count sessions, cross curricular links and Problemof theWeek sessions.Thesewell planned lessons ensure that all pupils can: follow lines of enquiry, reason
mathematically,make generalisations, spot patterns, justify and prove theories right or wrong.
Through the teaching of discreet skills and consistent methods, children are able to progress throughout the different year groups with a firmgrasp of the four operations and apply these
tomore complex situations.The fundamentals of maths are instilled in our children right from the Foundation Stage and provide themwith a‘toolkit’ of methods to usewhen attempting
sophisticated problems.
Mathematics