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St Mary's Catholic Primary Schools Trust

Non-negotiables

Nursery

  • Share stories at least twice a day; small group book sharing minimum 2x week
  • Correct pencil grip
  • Little Wandle Letter and Sounds- Foundation Phonics
  • Recasting incorrect grammar with child repeating back
  • Count concrete resources accurately to 5, practically add and take away
  • Write own name in school script
  • Reception
  • Correct letter formation (guided writing)
  • Join digraphs (ch, sh, th)
  • Secure use of CL and . from earliest sentence writing in guided sessions
  • Little Wandle Letters and Sounds Phase 2 - 4 Phonics
  •  Recasting incorrect grammar with child repeating back
  • Bank of known words for spelling

                  a, I, the , to, was, like, play, go, no, be, he, me, she, we, my, you, they, all, are

  • Read minimum 2 per week with teacher
  • Number bonds to 5 and some to 10
  • Solve simple mathematical problems using concrete resources

    Year 1

  • Joined writing. (don’t stop to dot letters or cross ‘t’)
  • Write at greater length
  • National Curriculum Appendix 1 spellings and grammar
  • Little Wandle Letters and Sounds - Phase 5 Phonics
  •  Secure use of ?
  •  Number bonds for all numbers to 20

                   Count to 100 in 2s, s and 1

    Year 2

  • Confident use of punctuation   CL . ?
  • Greater Depth  Correct use “  ”   ,  ‘s    ’for omissions   !
  • Extended writing
  • National Curriculum Appendix 1 spellings and grammar
  •  Count in 3s and in tens from any number
  •  2, 5 and 10 times tables
  • Quarter past and quarter to