The Benefits
- Having all the School’s phases (Key Stages 1-5) working together to track the children’s progress from age 4 to age 18
- Being able to support a child, knowing them well as learners, from age 4 onwards
- Creating a shared educational ethos that supports children from 4-18 and provides consistently high expectations for all
- Enabling primary age pupils to access the secondary phase specialisms, resources and facilities more easily
- Accommodating a wider breadth of activities for Gifted and Talented pupils and those with Special Educational Needs
- Having a wide range of ‘out of school’ activities that benefit from greater resources and can be interest rather than age-related
- Addressing the ‘dips’ in learning usually associated with transitions and transfers from school to school
- Having consistent pastoral care
- Providing greater opportunities for staff development and learning from new ways of doing things
The Foundation Stage of Learning
The Foundation Stage (for children in the Reception year) is organised in seven areas of learning.
- Communication and language
- Physical development
- Personal, social and emotional development
- Literacy
- Mathematics
- Understanding the world
- Expressive arts and design
