Reading & Phonics
At Montgomery Infant school and Nursery, phonic skills are taught using the 'Little Wandle Letters and sounds Revised' phonic programme.
"Little Wandle Letters and Sounds Revised is a complete systematic synthetic phonics programme (SSP) developed for schools by schools." (Little Wandle)
Information about Little Wandle and resources for parents can be found here: https://www.littlewandlelettersandsounds.org.uk/resources/for-parents/
Little Wandle is a carefully structured series of daily lessons, which has been designed to engage children in their learning of letters and sounds, leading into early reading, writing and spelling. This is a fundamental part of the children's day when from EYFS to Year Two.
From Year 2 onwards, the children start to deepen their comprehension skills and at Montgomery Primary School, we do this through a combination of daily Guided Reading sessions, whole class shared reading sessions and DERIC lessons, which focus on developing comprehension skills.
Pupils have individual reading books which they can change regularly in our well stocked library.
Writing
The skills of writing are taught mainly in genres in each class. Doing so ensures the pupils are aware of the differences between different types of writing. We aim to teach Writing linked to engaging texts, film clips or scripts to enable them to produce work of the highest quality.
Mathematics
Mathematics is taught discretely at Montgomery Primary School, unless there is a direct link to a topic being taught or a themed day. Teachers initially focus on strengthening the children's fluency in basic number skills and then move on to applying this knowledge to reasoning and problem solving type questions. In all classes, maths learning is differentiated to allow children of all abilities to access the learning independently. Children who require additional support to do so are given this. We aim to encourage independent learning and to develop thinking skills. Basic calculation skills are regularly rehearsed through four calculation tasks, set in class and for homework.
As part of our Maths support and challenge programme, we offer booster sessions for our more able mathematicians at different points in the year, as well as support sessions, such as 'First Class At Number' and 'Success At Arithmetic'.
