The curriculum at Gipsey Bridge Academy is aimed to inspire and excite pupils through creative learning projects. The majority of our curriculum is delivered through the project theme and children work towards an end product. This end product may be a presentation to parents, a film, play or even a museum exhibition! Our learning is placed in "real life" contexts wherever possible so children see value in developing new skills, knowledge and understanding. The school incorporates its five values of resilience, risk-taking, relationships, reflection and resourcefulness into all our learning projects.
Gipsey Bridge Academy has implemented the new 2014 National Curriculum whilst retaining its cross-curricular project based approach to teaching and learning. Please take the time to visit the class pages to view the latest projects or come along to our many curriculum events to see the outcomes.
Our new two-year curriculum cycle is linked below, and a curriculum web for each class for the current term can be on each class page.
RE- We teach RE in accordance with the Lincolnshire Agreed Syllabus.
Reading- Our reading books are from a variety of different schemes and are organised using "Book Banding".
Phonics-
We recognise that phonics is essential to providing a firm foundation for children’s reading and writing. This policy outlines a whole-school approach to phonics but particularly refers to early readers and writers in Foundation Stage (FS) and Key Stage one (KS1).
Aims and principles:
Organisation:
We follow the Letters and Sounds (L&S) publication timetable, but use a variety of resources to support this, including Jolly Phonics resources (songs and story/action books) as well as resources we make from a variety of sources on the internet.
If you require further information please visit Class pages for a current view of projects or contact the school.