Examples of basic skills
Read Write inc Writing
The children in Reception and Year 1 have been getting to grips with writing using the Read Write inc writing booklets. It's giving them an added element to the writing process and they are concentrating on the basic skills to ensure they develop into the best writers...
Maths week 2022
All year groups enjoyed a full week of Maths activities this week from Maths escape rooms to shape challenges - it got everyone thinking!
Daily Storytime for all Sandylands children
Each class has a daily story time slot as part of their timetable each day where they get to read a class novel. We believe it is really important for children to be read to daily and for our staff to model and share a story with a real focus on children being...
Phonics at Sandylands
We use the Read Write inc scheme to give our children an excellent reading foundation which runs from Nursery (in the summer term) through to Year 2. Once children move from the more structured elements of Read Write inc they move through the book banding of...
Our Sandylands Reading Spine
Our reading spine is a collection of books selected in each year group which reflects the diversity of our past and present world. The Reading spine is accessible in each class and children can select a book to take home. The books are also used as part of the...
Mastery Maths with Tim Kirk … teachers learn too!
Staff have been working alongside the Lancashire Maths team and Tim Kirk to work on Maths planning, teaching arithmetic and using apparatus effectively in lessons. A recent Maths walk through had pleasing results with Tim expressing how the teaching of Arithmetic in...
Number day 2022
The children have had a great time bringing Maths to life during Number day today. They have been battling it out with their times tables during a class to class competition as well as creating human graphs and pictograms. Team theme also got involved creating...
Fantastic Book Awards
We love reading! The Fantastic book awards club took part in their launch party recently. They are really excited to get reading and holding their very own book sharing sessions. They will hopefully be able to start making recommendations for children taking part in...
