World Book Week A huge thank you to all of our families who sent their children to school in character costumes yesterday for World Book Day. It was a fantas...
Please click to find a letter from our Chair of governors, Mrs Ellena Walshe about our new Head Teacher appointment. ...
Please click to read our latest Spring 1 2020 newsletter! ...
In our weekly assembly the children took part in a vote to see if they knew how ...
Thank you to all of you who came along to our FON Christmas Fair. Our wonderful PTA raised an incredible £827, which will all go directly back into providing e...
On Friday 6th December, 2019, we held a hugely successfully Christmas Craft morning at Newcroft. An astonishing 180 families joined us to make Christmas decorat...
Miss Reeves, our Science Leader, arranged some super Science workshops in school...
We have officially opened our brand new Upper Key Stage 2 playground and gym equipment area. The chidlren love their new space and healthy choices equipment! Th...
Our English leader is Miss Kruger, Assistant Head teacher. She is supported by Mrs Wicks who leads Phonics.
Each key area of our English curriculum has an intent and impact profile. Please click each image to view these below:
We teach phonics using Letters and Sounds in ability groupings from EYFS to Year 2. Once children move into Year 3, we teach phonics as an intervention for those who are still identified as needing support with reading, alongside other reading comprehension interventions. Please click below to find useful parent resources linked to Letters and Sounds:
Letters and Sounds Resources and Guidance
We use a range of phonic books to support children in learning sounds in their phonics lessons alongside Comprehension. This approach helps pupils to practise sounds linked directly to teaching when reading at school and at home with parents. These include: Big Cat books, Oxford Reading books and Rigby Star. All of these books follow the National Book Banding system, which we adopt at Newcoft.
All our children read book banded books, following this system from EYFS to Year 6 and also take home reading for pleasure books to promote a love of reading.
