In all we do we aim to display... Love, Kindness, Joy, Self-Control, and Faithfulness. Our Christian values permeate the life of the school. As we go through the day the children and adults aim to live out these values, deepening their meaning and showing them in many practical ways. We ensure that diversity and difference are celebrated.
Each week we spend time together as a school celebrating those children who have particularly shown these values in their attitude and behavior at school.
We celebrate the children being punctual and having overall good attendance too and a prize is given for best punctuality and also best attendance.
The Reception classes follow the Early Years Foundation Stage Curriculum. Your child will mostly be taught through games and play. The areas of learning are:
- Communication and language
- Physical development
- Personal, social, and emotional development
- Literacy
- Mathematics
- Understanding the world
- Expressive arts and design
We follow the National Curriculum 2014. The curriculum has been mapped out across Years One and Two and each term we follow a topic that helps to scaffold the learning.
Children develop quickly in the early years, and early years practitioners aim to do all they can to help children have the best possible start in life. Children have a right, spelled out in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, to a provision that enables them to develop their personalities, talents, and abilities irrespective of ethnicity, culture or religion, home language, family background, learning difficulties, disabilities or gender. This guidance helps adults to understand and support each child’s development pathway.
Children are born ready, able, and eager to learn. They actively reach out to interact with other people, and in the world around them. Development is not an automatic process, however. It depends on each unique child having opportunities to interact in positive relationships and enabling environments.
From Reception to Year 2 we use a wonderful resource called Numicon which enables the children to build an understanding of the concept of number.
We use the Letters and Sounds scheme for teaching phonics. We find this a systematic program and a great basis for teaching children the phonics children require for reading and writing. We use our teaching expertise and other resources to bring these lessons to life whilst following a format for teaching that enables all children to make progress.
We use several reading schemes and a series of books. For Guided Reading in class, we plan mainly from the Rigby Star and Big Cat series of books.
The Religious Education at Dulwich Village C of E Infants' School is an integral and vital element to the curriculum. It is best summarised through the words from the Southwark Diocese Board of Education: "Religious Education (RE) is not just an academic subject, but, lies at the very heart of the curriculum and has an important role in reflecting and conveying the distinctively Christian character of the school.
The Religious Education at Dulwich Village C of E Infants' School is an integral and vital element to the curriculum. It is best summarised through the words from the Southwark Diocese Board of Education: "Religious Education (RE) is not just an academic subject, but, lies at the very heart of the curriculum and has an important role in reflecting and conveying the distinctively Christian character of the school.
