Early Years

At Abbots Ripton CofE Primary School, we want our Reception children to learn knowledge and skills to support their journey through our school and their lives. 

Using the new Early Years Framework 2021, we have planned an ambitious curriculum with a progressive sequence of knowledge and skills which supports learning in KS1 and KS2. We aim for the children to be confident in this knowledge and in these skills in all areas of the curriculum, with these stored in their long term memory as they leave Reception class.

Our curriculum is language rich, develops the characteristics of learning, independence and self-regulation, and covers the seven areas of the Early Years curriculum. We use specific schemes of learning for Phonics; Little Wandle: Letters and Sounds Revised, English in the Summer Term; The Write Stuff resources, Maths; NCETM Mastering Maths and White Rose Mastery Curriculum, RE; Emmanuel Project and Understanding Christianity, PE; Cambridgeshire Syllabus and the Cambridgeshire PSHE Personal Development Programme. Please see the curriculum overviews for further details of these schemes.

This academic year, 2022-2023, the Government have released some guidelines for parents, to support their children with their language and communication skills. Please click on the link to take you to the relevant information. Learning to Talk

We also aim for the curriculum to be flexible and driven by the children’s interests to ensure that they are engaged and excited by the learning within the Van Gogh classroom.