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Children experience a modern foreign language throughout the school. Music, PE and Games
are timetabled as subject lessons.
We believe that active learning and a sense of purpose and success enhance pupils'
enjoyment, interest, confidence and sense of personal worth; passive learning and
inappropriate teaching styles can lead to frustration and failure. In particular, it is necessary to
ensure that the pupils are given sufficient first hand experience accompanied by discussion
upon which to base abstract ideas and generalisations.
Children from our school are taken out on educational day visits and as they grow older they will
have the opportunity of going on residential field courses.
This work is interdisciplinary and often
represents the height of their academic
achievement. All children make their own
books in which they record their learning
from the visits. The books they make are
of a high quality and the children feel,
quite rightly, very proud of their finished
work. We know that they go on to
treasure their special books especially
when they move on to secondary
education. These books are unique to
Crawley Ridge Junior School.
The flexibility of our organisation allows
teachers to group children according to
ability within their classrooms and across
year groups. Our staffing enables both
the child with learning difficulties and the
more able child to have additional
support.
English
In English we teach pupils to speak and write fluently so that they can communicate their ideas
and emotions to others, and to read and listen so that others can communicate with them. We
engender a love of reading and give children an
opportunity to read a wide range of traditional
and modern literature. Children are taught the
key skills of spelling as well as grammar and
punctuation in line with the National Curriculum
2014. The school uses a fully cursive
handwriting style and this is explicitly taught in
regular lessons. Children are encouraged to
present their work to a variety of audiences in
the most appropriate way, including the use of
ICT.
