The PE curriculum and vision

We enable the children to communicate in both oral and written work confidently and clearly. This allows the children to use writing to express themselves coherently, adapting their language and style for the context, purpose and audience at hand.

Children will learn to apply their reading skills in everyday life. By developing a love of reading for pleasure and the ability to access learning in a variety of subjects, we know that our children will be able to communicate effectively in the wider world.

We strive to equip our children with the skills and knowledge they need for their school career and beyond.

Through reading in particular, pupils have a chance to develop culturally, emotionally, intellectually, socially and spiritually. Literature, especially, plays a key role in such development. Reading also enables pupils both to acquire knowledge and to build on what they already know.

Grammar

At Manadon Vale , we use the ‘No Nonsense Grammar and sentence toolkit’ so that grammar teaching links seamlessly with teaching children how to improve their writing.  This has had a positive impact on the children’s learning by putting the grammar teaching into a context and allowing the children to experiment with it within their own writing.  

Children are taught tools/ symbols that represent specific grammar content. This analogy helps them to understand the terminology as well as when and how to use it effectively.  

Writing

At Manadon Vale, our writing curriculum is designed to enable our children to become imaginative, engaging and precise writers who show control as well as adaptability in style when asked to write for a range of contexts, purposes and audiences. At the core of our curriculum is the belief that children should be taught using high quality texts that vary in genre, show cultural diversity and are matched to the needs of individual classes of children.  

By using this structure to shape our writing curriculum, the children are presented with a model which enables them to understand authors’ choices and intentions, demonstrating what an effective piece of writing looks like, as well as providing a solid understanding of grammar; this provides the children with clear end points and outcome pieces to work towards. Through teaching writing skills alongside these high-quality texts, children are shown how the choices that they make as a writer impact on the reader in differing ways.  

This curriculum is taught with a logical progression of texts so that children can build on their prior learning in a systematic way to ensure that intended knowledge and skills are acquired. 

At Manadon Vale , our pupils’ writing journey begins in the early years and sequentially builds knowledge and skills, year-on-year.   

Reading

A reader from Manadon Vale Primary School will be able to:  

  • Read at an age expected standard.  
  • Apply their phonics knowledge when reading as well as other strategies to identify unknown words. For example, reading around the word for meaning, breaking it up into parts etc.  
  • Develop reading for pleasure that lasts a lifetime.  
  • Experience a wide breath of books, including a range of genres and themes.  
  • Understand a variety of text types including fiction, non-fiction and poetry.  
  • Have a good understanding for a wide range of vocabulary.  
  • Retrieve information from the text through skimming and scanning.  
  • Read between the lines to make accurate inferences. 

All EYFS and KS1 will use the ELS programme to support their reading at school. Each child is matched with a book according to their ability and one book of the sounds they are learning each week. As the children transition to Year 2 and are confident with their decoding, blending and segmenting, they will move on to Accelerated Reader scheme.

Renaissance Accelerated Reader

Renaissance Accelerated Reader balances students' independent reading practice with nonfiction reading and close-reading skills practice. It is a computer-based program that schools may use to monitor reading practice and progress. It helps teachers guide children to books that are at their individual reading levels. 

Children ready for this scheme will be quizzed at 3 points in the year to answer a series of retrieval, prediction and inference skills. This will then point them to a ZPD ( Zone of Proximal development) so the children know which level reading books to read. They can read as many books as they like during the week and at the end of the book,  will take a short quiz to check if they've understood it.

Goals / targets are set using a child's ZPD level and the time provided for reading practice, this ensures each child's target is personalised and relevant to their individual ability in reading.

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🎉 Year 2's Great Fire of London Reenactment! 🔥 This term, Year 2 has had an amazing time learning about the Great Fire of London and its history. We even recreated the event ourselves! 🔥🏠 From building our own model houses to watching the fire spread, it was a hands-on way to experience history and understand how the fire changed London forever. Well done, Year 2! 👏
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🎼🎄💚 Music Club had the best time singing at the Home Park Carol Service - Manadon were absolutely fantastic and we are so, so proud of them!🌟 A special 'thank you' to all our families, friends and staff who braved the traffic to come and support the children. 🥰 Two concerts down, 1 more to go! 💙🎼
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What wonderful performances by Foundation Stage and Key Stage One. We are SO proud of Seahorses and Turtles! 🎄
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Year 6 Christmas lunch was enjoyed by all of the children. 🎄🎅
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Seahorses and Turtles loved Christmas jumper day and enjoyed our yummy lunch! A big thank you to the kitchen staff 👏🏽
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Year 3 had a very happy Christmas jumper day!
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We are very proud of Year 1 for performing so well in their Nativity this week - what stars you all are!
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Yummy Christmas Lunch and Christmas Jumper day🎄
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Dolphins performed brilliantly in their nativity 👏🏼 and have enjoyed their Christmas lunch this afternoon 🎄
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🎼Reminder for Orchestra🎼 Miss Eastgate has sent an email reminder but just in case ... can all KS2 children in our school Orchestra please bring in their instruments tomorrow? 😊 Thank you!
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Year 2 pictures from the Foundation and KS1 Nativity ⭐ More photos from other year groups to follow
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Christmas jumper day on Wednesday! Please wear a Christmas jumper over usual school uniform. 🎄🎅🏼
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The MVPS Music Club are extremely excited to be performing alongside other local primary schools with the Plymouth Youth Band at Home Park this Thursday! 🎄 The event is completely free to all families (under 16s must be accompanied by an adult) - come along to support all the children and have a lovely evening of music, food and community spirit! 🎼
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Today we had a visit from Rachel May from Devon and Somerset Fire and Rescue Service. The whole school attended an assembly on the importance of fire safety. Year 2 and Year 5 students participated in a more in-depth lesson, where they learned essential safety measures and how to respond in case of a fire emergency🔥
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