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Primary
Key stages 1 and 2 cover the years from the beginning of Year 1 in primary school to the end of primary education in Year 6. This is a time when children are developing their basic skills in the core subjects of reading, writing and mathematics.
All children are taught in mixed ability classes so as to accelerate learning for those who welcome challenges in the learning process ensuring that no child is left behind.
Overview
In the Primary section, we continue to build upon the foundation laid in the Early Years. Our Primary program focuses on providing a comprehensive education that encompasses core subjects, as well as a range of co-curricular activities. Through a combination of the British and Nigerian curriculums, we foster critical thinking, creativity, and a sense of global awareness. Our dedicated teachers guide students to develop strong communication skills, problem-solving abilities, and a thirst for knowledge.
In the more formal learning setting of Key Stage 1 there is a high focus on reading and oracy, which form the building blocks for writing which in turn underpin access to learning across all other areas of the curriculum. Following a thorough phonics programme supported by phonetically decodable reading books, children start to actively develop deeper comprehension skills by the end of Key Stage 1, through utilising some of the reading skills and techniques taught late in Key Stage 2 in whole class teaching. Oracy, vocabulary, questioning and explanation underpin all areas of learning to help children understand and retain key elements of the curriculum and their experiences on which to build in the future.
In Key Stage 2 children are given constant opportunities to deepen their learning through the mastery approach in maths which is also utilised in reading writing and topic curriculum areas to ensure that children not only enjoy what they are learning but can explain their reasoning in a variety of contexts, apply their learning to everyday events in their lives and the world around them and develop a broad vocabulary and rich cultural capital and general knowledge base.
Key features of our teaching across key stages one and two are the use of: high quality topic related texts which also build cultural capital, sentence stems, talk and oracy development, vocabulary development, questioning supported by Bloom’s Taxonomy, developing a depth of learning and metacognition through self and peer explanation of choices and decisions made.
