John Harrison Church of England Primary School

The basic skills of Speaking and Listening, Reading, Writing and Maths are taught daily at John Harrison CE Primary School.  In all classes key skills are taught and children are given opportunities to practise skills.  These skills include speaking with clarity and in different situations, punctuation and grammar, handwriting, reading comprehension and deeper understanding, times tables and number facts.  The Brain Builders that are set may sometimes focus specifically on key skills but will always require that children use these skills.

Developing early writing in phonics

Sequencing numbers

Talking about a mind map

Listening to a message recorded on chatterbox

Throughout school the children have been using their basic skills in reading, writing, maths and speaking and listening within Christmas activities.

Year 3 working out which elf ate the Christmas pudding using clues.

Y5 solve area and perimeter problems about presents.

Y5 read and share reading games with Y1 and 2 children.

Y1 imagine their snowman coming to life and write about what they would do.

Please see the information below, which  has some KS2 maths ideas that classes have been using for the month of November (called Barvember by White Rose Maths Hub). 

Pupils reading, researching, speaking and listening.

Pupils finding half of a number and reading in the quiet area.

Y4 tackle Christmas challenges and play a Santa cross-curricular board game.

Y2 walk and talk about the Christmas Story before their writing activity.

Y6 used Chrome Books to access Kahoot quizes.