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Manor Green Primary Academy

Curriculum

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Curriculum Intent 

At Manor Green Primary Academy, we pride ourselves on offering a unique curriculum to meet the academic and holistic needs of all learners. Due to our context, we plan for some golden threads to run through our entire curriculum. These threads are:

  • Oracy
  • Diversity and culture
  • Mental well-being (Thrive) and physical well-being
  • Experiences and aspirations
  • Life skills

Our curriculum, which is based upon the National Curriculum, is knowledge and vocabulary rich providing many opportunities to build cultural and social capital

We want to inspire an ambition for our children and staff to deepen their curiosity about, understanding of, and respect for, the world around them. We want our children to become independent, resilient learners who are willing to take a risk and take responsibility for their own learning and we do all of this in a safe, engaging environment, promoting active learning.

At Manor Green Primary Academy, we aspire, achieve and succeed!

Curriculum implementation and our pedagogical approach

We implement our curriculum through carefully designed long-term plans that teachers adapt into learning sequences for children. Our pedagogy is planned, both in the long and medium-term, to ensure children learn more, remember more and can do more.

Long-term plans have been designed to ensure that across year groups and key stages, children experience a consistent and developmental educational journey that allows them to learn more, remember more and do more. Substantive and conceptual knowledge is weaved across the long-term curriculum to ensure children make good progress.

The long term and medium-term sequences take into account four key steps that inform daily instruction. These steps have been adapted from Roshenshine’s Principles of Effective Instruction and at Manor Green all our planning and delivery follows these steps. These are: activate, build, use, review. When creating learning sequences, teachers carefully consider the gradual release of responsibility mode




Phonics and Early Reading

‘Phonics is a way of teaching children how to read and write. It helps children hear, identify and use different sounds that distinguish one word from another in the English language.

Written language can be compared to a code, so knowing the sounds of individual letters and how those letters sound when they’re combined will help children decode words as they read.

Understanding phonics will also help children know which letters to use when they are writing words.’ (The National Literacy Trust)

At Manor Green, the children are taught in a mix of a whole class approach and small groups so that all children have the opportunity to make good progress. Discrete phonics sessions are taught daily and we use a systematic phonics programme that all adults are trained in delivering and assessing.  

Below is a useful video for parents in order to help them to pronounce sounds correctly when helping their child at home:

Sounds of the English Phonic Code

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