Greenwood Primary School

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Welcome to our successful school where children always come first. We are committed to all the children achieving and reaching their full potential. We are proud that we provide a caring and supportive atmosphere, which allows children to develop emotionally, socially, and academically. Our staff play a major role in the children's development they have only one priority, and that is to provide the very best that we can offer. Greenwood Primary is a very caring and happy school where success is celebrated.

Parents are actively encouraged to take a keen interest in all aspects of school life so that the staff, parents, and, most importantly, the children can work together. We warmly welcome visits to Greenwood to see our children at work and experience at first hand what we have to offer at our school.

Values:

• To provide a warm and safe environment for all children and where everyone feels valued
• To provide a broad, balanced, and stimulating curriculum that is relevant to the children’s needs and interests
• To create a supportive environment that promotes communication, collaboration, and reflection
• To build children’s learning power skills to enable them to reach their full potential and equip them for life long learning
• To achieve high standards, in all areas of the curriculum, including the physical as well as the academic, spiritual, and moral development of our children
• To encourage children to develop a caring and considerate attitude to others, based on mutual respect and understanding
• To actively encourage all children to develop their skills, gifts, and talents, in all areas of the curriculum
• To actively encourage children to adopt a healthy lifestyle
• To encourage and enable the continuous professional development of all staff

The school offers a broad, balanced and stimulating curriculum, which is designed to allow children access to learning opportunities that interest and motivate them, and which develop their skills to succeed in later life. While prioritizing the basic skills of Mathematics and English, the school promotes creativity and cross-curricular knowledge through the foundation subjects. Arts and creative weeks are planned regularly and music is taught by specialist staff. Spanish is the adopted Modern Foreign Language in KS2.

The teaching of reading is prioritized throughout the school but particularly in the Infant department. The primary strategy taught is synthetic phonics. The Infant classes are taught phonics daily and much of this is through sets (groups made according to each child’s stage of learning). The school uses the scheme ‘Letters and Sounds’ throughout the Infants but the commercially produced ‘Jolly Phonics scheme’ is used in the Early Years to assist children through actions and songs.

The children in the Infants are hard to read by an adult twice a week. One occasion is individual, using ‘The Oxford Reading Tree’ and other schemes, used to give variety, including phonetically decodable books. These are arranged into colored book bands and are sent home weekly with a record book for the parents’ information. The second occasion is guided reading in which small groups of similar ability children read a book together. Separate schemes are used for this, including ‘All Aboard’, ‘Rigby Star’, and Pearson’s ‘Phonic Bug Scheme’, and some non-scheme books which have been color banded. These books are not sent home but can be seen by parents on request.

The school plans to use the National Curriculum without using a commercially produced Mathematics scheme. Teachers plan activities using a variety of resources to match the needs of groups and individual children. Number and computation are given priority and are taught every week. The school has a calculation policy that explains the order concepts are taught and the methods used. (Copies of this may be requested from the school office) All activities are differentiated (planned at different levels) within classes and in Years 5 and 6 the children are taught in maths sets for 5 days in year 5 and 3 days in year 6.

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