Behind The Scenes
Behind The Scenes
Our school's quality improvement plan is a working document that gets updated every year. It's where we reflect on our practice as a school and put in targets for the next year.
We are in the process of change in Quarryhill. This change permeates everything we do from planning to classroom set up, to resources we use. We want Quarryhill to be a place anyone can achieve.
Below is our Numeracy progression. It has an outlined pathway and a rational behind each year group. Simply, a teacher works through the small steps, making sure each pupil has understood it and connected it to the previous learning. You can ask the teacher what small step they are teaching and you will be able to see exactly what is happening in class!
At Quarryhill we have adopted a Maths Mastery approach. Find out more by clicking on the video
Below is our Literacy progressions. This is a little more complex than our numeracy progression as there are three distinct areas of literacy in the curriculum: reading, writing and listening & talking. In reading we are focusing on VIPERS. As for writing we have a progression for each year focussing on different types of texts. We use a phonics based approach for teaching spelling. We've linked videos below explaining some of these concepts.
We have completely revamped our literacy program by introducing VIPERS and phonics