English skills are taught in daily English lessons in all three Key Stages. The focus is on the teaching of reading and writing with opportunities for children to listen and speak in many different situations across the curriculum. English teaching is incorporated into the curriculum through our half-termly themes, which allows writing to be purposeful and interesting and helps develop and enhance opportunities to write and learn in different areas of the curriculum.
The enjoyment of books and a love of reading are fostered from the early stages of pupil education. The children have access to a range of books so that they are introduced to a wide number of literary genres and develop an understanding of the strength and purpose of literature in all it forms.

We begin the teaching of phonics in FS1. This gives the children confidence to attempt writing of their own and as they progress through the school these early strategies help them develop into fluent and confident readers and writers.
In class, reading is taught primarily through a shared reading approach in which the class share a book or extract of text together and are supported by the teacher to improve their vocabulary and comprehension skills.
Drama and role-play allow the children to explore their own feelings, develop speaking and listening skills and learn about the world around them.

In Key stage 2, children study a wide range of fiction and non-fiction texts using a variety of genres for writing and are taught to draft and re-draft before producing their final piece of work. High expectations in correct spelling, grammar, punctuation and sentence formation are emphasised. Pupils in years one to six are taught from our school’s own English framework, written by us and encompassing all the key genres and objectives from the National Curriculum.

Reading
We encourage Bacon Garth parents and carers to read with their child every night. All children have a Home Reading Record book into which we invite parents to sign or make a comment to help support their child’s reading at home.
Children have the opportunity to change their reading books regularly. We encourage a love and respect of books and it is helpful when children spend time at home talking about books and reading. Encouraging the children to ask questions and discuss what is happening in the pictures are good starting points. Whilst out and about, we encourage the children to look at the print around them - in shops, posters, road names, signs, etc. We have an extensive range of books in school including those from The Oxford Reading Tree, which underpins our school reading scheme.
 

Phonics
We use Letters and Sounds as a basis on which to plan our daily phonics teaching in EYFS and Key Stage 1. All children in Year 1 undertake the Phonics Screening Check at the end of the year.

Maths
Our children are encouraged and helped to develop a positive attitude to mathematics from their earliest days in school. Children are taught to value the importance of mental maths in their mathematical development. Knowledge, understanding and skills to develop numeracy are taught in the daily maths lesson based around The Focus Maths
Scheme. Maths is used in a wide range of contexts to help children appreciate the purpose and relevance of mathematics in the real world, including Design Technology and Science.

There is an emphasis on Basic Skills, as it is acknowledged that for children to know more and remember more, they need to have a solid understanding of the four operations of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.

After focused teaching in each lesson, opportunities are provided for children to independently apply skills and all groups are provided with challenge.

Science
Science is essentially a practical subject intended to stimulate pupils' curiosity about the world around them. Science teaching helps children to develop enquiring minds and equips them with key skills, so that they are increasingly able to
research answers to their own questions.
Our Science curriculum is based fundamentally on the principles that Science is
good when it:
- Is relevant and related to real life
- Includes current topics of interest and means something to us
- Allows us to ask questions and develop our vocabulary
- Lets us investigate and explore in a practical, hands-on and experimental way
- Challenges our understanding and encourages us to think about our scientific ideas
- Encourages us to apply our knowledge, skills and understanding at home and at school
- Gives us opportunities to work with others
- Enables us to use appropriate, high quality resources.

Our curriculum is underpinned by our vision and ethos of:
Experience
Excel
Enjoy

The curriculum for each year group is carefully designed to ensure coverage and progression across all subject areas; developing depth of knowledge and understanding together with opportunities for intelligent repetition which
enables children to remember more.
We recognise children’s prior learning, encourage the children to develop interpersonal skills, build resilience and become creative, critical thinkers. Children are supported to achieve their potential and progress with confidence
to the next phase of their education.

Our approach to teaching and learning supports our curriculum by ensuring that lessons build on prior learning and provide opportunities for guided and independent practice. The development of children’s knowledge and skills across 
all primary subjects is key when building on prior learning which supports pupils for the next stage of their learning.

Everyone at Bacon Garth Primary is encouraged to improve through our curriculum, understand others, not to give up, try new things, work hard, concentrate, excel in many subject areas, to experience real life contexts and embed these in memorable learning journeys, and to enjoy school life, to enjoythe subjects in which they participate, to develop a thirst, a love and a need to develop their own knowledge and thus become model British citizens of the world with a clear, reflective moral compass and independent skills to apply in the wider world.

Pupils are supported in school with extra support/resources deployed as  necessary to help close the individual learning gaps. Each class is supported by at least one TA or Nursery Nurse. We consistently monitor, support and assess
pupils who are in receipt of pupil premium funding, those pupils who have SEND and those who may struggle with mental wellbeing issues all of which could potentially have a negative impact on their education. We ensure that the
Equality Act of 2010 and SEND Regulations 2014 are firmly embedded within our curriculum so that all pupils are given equal opportunities to thrive and succeed. Key skills such as evaluation, reflection and investigation are developed across our curriculum. Lessons are planned in such a way that children can apply their knowledge in thinking/problem solving contexts.