Curriculum Newsletter

January 10th 2025  

 

Welcome to our second Curriculum Newsletter which will be sent out weekly to celebrate the wonderful activities our children experience at Co-op Brierley. Each half term our Pathways learn a new theme and Talk4writing text, this half term we will cover: 

Informal Pathway Captivating Colours 

Children will be exploring these stories through music, food, movement, pictures and touch to learn the beauty of our world of colour. 

  

 

Informal Pathway Captivating Colours 

Children will be exploring these stories through music, food, movement, pictures and touch to learn the beauty of our world of colour. 

 

Semi- formal: Exploring Identity and self expression 

Our children are looking forward to an exciting visit from some real Owls next week and have been immersed in all things feathery to prepare for the visit. 

 

Formal: Peoples rights 

 

  

Our Literacy will focus around the challenging concept of change and human rights, whilst in Science our children will be learning about Electricity and Sound.

 

Phonics and Spelling  

Our Informal learners have a ‘Sound Time’ session everyday which focuses on early sound discrimination, oral blending of words and symbol exchange. We use a total communication approach to hear the sound, feel the object or instrument and match the symbol.

 

In Semi- formal we use Read Write Inc as our phonics programme and the children move into phonic groups for a 30 minute session each day. During this lesson we teach each phoneme (or sound) so the children learn sounds and letters

which make up a word  

 

 



             

 

Formal learners continue to build on their phonics skills through daily reading and spelling lessons. They use the ‘speed sounds’ to remind themselves of words with similar sounds and different spellings and to learn simple rules for spelling words correctly.

 

 Brierley Best Learning!

 

                                  

 

 

                                                                                                                             

                                               

 

              

We have opened two wonderful new sensory rooms to support our children’s regulation and sensory integration. The squeeze machine is a particular favourite! 

 

Communication for Learning

                                        

 

Our children use different visual organisers so they know what to expect next and to reinforce the verbal directions given by adults. These are some examples from our classrooms and can be a really useful way to structure activities at home too. 

 

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