Teaching arrangements


St. Andrew and St. Francis is a two form entry school. The Nursery has part time sessions, morning and afternoon of 3 hours.


Maximum class size is 30 children (60 in a year group) and there are 26 places in each Nursery session.


Children are taught in whole class, groups, or individually, as is appropriate to the task.


Homework Early Years


Children in Nursery attend school for half day sessions of 3 hours/day; and those in Reception full time. Children in these classes follow the Early Years Foundation Stage curriculum. This has 6 areas of learning :


Communication, language and literacy, problem solving, reasoning and numeracy, knowledge and understanding of the world; creative development; physical development; and personal and social development.


Children are encouraged to learn through play and exploration of their environment, both indoors and outdoors. Through carefully structured activities the children’s abilities are identified and skills are developed.


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The school believes that homework is an essential part of genuine pupil progress. By encouraging concentration on work at home, pupils will develop the practice of independent study and the qualities of perseverance and self-discipline. Children will be asked to undertake homework tasks according to their age, including : • Read at home each evening for a period of not less than 10 minutes;


• Learn spellings and High Frequency Words for weekly assessments;


• Learn multiplication tables and number bonds to support mental calculations;


• Complete weekly English or mathematics tasks; • Complete research for topic work;


• Complete unfinished or unsatisfactory work at the request of the teacher.


Parents/carers support is essential for the successful completion of homework.


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