Curriculum Intent

At Birkby Infant and Nursery School we offer a broad academic curriculum that is underpinned by our four key aims.

• Every child a reader: A reading-rich curriculum which enhances learning, supports the development of communication skills and results in the acquisition of knowledge which is retained, so that pupils know more, remember more and learn more.
• Being good citizens: A curriculum which celebrates difference, develops an understanding of right and wrong, and which ensures pupils develop a strong moral compass.
• A love for learning and being curious: A curriculum that is exciting and engaging, which challenges children to think, question, problem solve and reason and offers hands on experiences.
• Learning behaviours for success: A curriculum which nurtures the learning behaviours that will help children to succeed: ​Independence; Resilience; Motivation; Being reflective; Creativity.

 

End of Year Expectations for Year 1

Reading

• Identify which words appear again and again.
• Recognise and join in with predictable phrases.
• Relate reading to own experiences.
• Re-read if reading does not make sense.
• Re-tell with considerable accuracy.
• Discuss significance of title and events.
• Made predictions on basis of what has been read.
• Make inferences on basis of what is being said and done.
• Read aloud with pace and expression, i.e. pause at full stop; raise voice for question.
  Recognise:
  1. Capital letters
  2. Full stops
  3. Question marks
  4. Exclamation marks
  5. Ellipsis
• Know what the write has used the above punctuation in a text.
• Know difference between fiction and non-fiction texts.

 

Writing

• Write clearly demarcated sentences.
• Use ‘and’ to join ideas.
• Use conjunctions to join sentences (e.g. so, but).
• Use standard forms of verbs, e.g. go/went.
  Introduce use of:
  1. Capital letters
  2. Full stops
  3. Question marks
  4. Exclamation marks
• Use capital letters for names and personal pronoun ‘I’.
• Write a sequence of sentences to form a short narrative (as introduction to
  paragraphs).
• Use correct formation of lower case – finishing in right place.
• Use correct formation of capital letters.
• Use correct formation of digits.

 

Mathematics

• Count to and across 100, forwards and backwards from any number.
• Read and write numbers to 20 in numerals and words.
• Read and write number to 100 in numerals.
• Say 1 more/1 less to 100.
• Count in multiples of 2, 5 and 10.
• Use bonds and subtraction facts to 20.
• Add and subtract 1 digit and 2 digit numbers to 20, including zero.
• Solve one-step multiplication and division using objects, pictorial representation and
  arrays.
• Recognise half and a quarter of object, shape or quantity.
• Sequence events in chronological order.
• Use language of day, week, month and year.
• Tell time to hour and half past