Ongoing Teaching and Learning

• We will continue to teach an ambitious and broad curriculum in all subjects from the start of the autumn term, but make use of existing flexibilities to create time to cover the most important missed content
• We will continue to plan on the basis of the educational needs of pupils
• We will baseline all children using test materials and teacher assessment to establish starting points following the COVID lockdown and to inform teachers’ planning to support with helping children to recoup lost learning and to address learning gaps; this assessment will take place during the 2nd full week in the new term. Children should not be anxious about the assessments as they are in no way a judgement on pupils’ attainment
• The DfE guidance says that specialist of peripatetic teachers can resume teaching across schools; MFL, Forest School, Specialist Reading support; PE coaching; SEND interventions will all resume with teachers maintaining 2m distancing to ensure their safety when working across bubble groups and key stages;
• Whole school and key stage assemblies and singing will not resume until further notice
• As with physical activity during the school day, contact sports will not take place. Sports equipment will be thoroughly cleaned between each use by different individual groups and the school hall cleaned between use by classes from different phases

Our Recovery Curriculum

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Over the summer break 2020, school staff have been busy considering our strategy for a recovery curriculum for our children. This has involved curriculum mapping:

• looking at the summer term units that were not taught and prioritising teaching
• looking at topics that will need to be covered to enable key skills and knowledge to be taught but with less focus on objectives / topics that are revisited in later years - when a topic is revisited, it will be necessary for class teachers to know that prior learning might not be in place but in the majority of cases, we elicit prior knowledge as part of our normal teaching practice so this will reveal gaps in prior knowledge

Identifying Essential Learning

• Where a class has missed an entire topic, we will focus on the prior knowledge needed to enable progression within a new topic going forward
• An example of how this can be seen by looking at Science. In the summer term, Year 3 would have covered Forces and Magnets. Forces is covered again in Year 5 and many objectives are revisited and so can be left untaught for now. However, the magnetism objectives are not revisited in Year 5 and so would need to be incorporated into the Year 5 Forces unit of work for the 2019/20 Year 3 cohort.

Identifying Core Subject Gaps

• A set of Curriculum Recovery Analysis documents will be highlighted to identify where objectives were not able to be covered in school in Summer 2020 or where teachers are aware that a cohort had a particular difficulty with an objective.
• This will enable class teachers to plan more effectively early in the Autumn term.