Learning Areas

Word Workshop
Word workshop is the programme that Lyons Hall teachers have developed to teach reading, spelling and writing. It teaches the children phonological and alphabetical knowledge so they can recognise the different phonemes (sounds and words) in order to become confident and fluent readers and writers.

Reading in KS1

Reading and writing are taught to meet the needs of the children in a wide range of creative, analytic and dynamic ways using current music and interactive learning. For more information on phonics please visit www.oxfordowl.co.uk

Guided Reading

Alongside the daily phonics session (word workshop) the children develop their breadth and pleasure of reading, what reading is good for and a knowledge of how books work in a guided reading session. Extending their thinking, questioning, comprehension and inspiration to read is also the purpose of these sessions in both key stages.

Code Breakers
When children need further support to become a fluent reader they succeed through code breakers. As popular in our school as Richard and Judy’s book club was for summer reads but with teaching of highest quality, together with effective assessment and tracking for those who encounter difficulty in reading.

Maths

99 Club

The 99 Club is a weekly club for Years 3 and 4 (though if you fancy a try and you are in a different year group, give it a go!) It aims to raise standards in maths through encouraging pupils to improve their mental calculations when attempting quick-fire multiplication and division problems.

The idea is that with repeated practice, the scheme should result in increased speed and confidence when tackling mental maths problems without relying on written workings and methods.

All pupils will begin at the 11 Club and work their way up, having one opportunity per week during the start of one of their maths lessons to answer all calculations at their current level unaided and within the allotted time of five minutes.

If all of the calculations are answered correctly twice in a row, the child moves up to the next level!

The initial 11 Club involves eleven problems which involve doubling numbers up to ten i.e. 5+5, 8+8. The 22 Club then adds eleven further questions involving repeated addition for numbers from one to ten i.e. 3+3+3+3, 5+5+5+5+5, while the 33 Club begins to introduce times tables.

Division facts are added by the time a pupil reaches the 77 Club, and in the 88 Club and 99 Club, pupils will be tackling a range of mixed multiplication and division problems.

The full breakdown of The 99 Club levels is as follows:

11_Club 11 questions involving doubling numbers from one to ten

22_Club 22 questions involving repeated addition of numbers from one to ten

33_Club33 questions introducing the 2x, 3x, 5x and 10x tables

44_Club 44 questions adding the 1x, 4x and 6x tables

55_Club 55 questions adding the 7x and 8x tables

66_Club 66 questions adding the 9x, 11x and 12x tables

77_Club 77 questions consisting of inverse division facts

88_Club 88 questions of mixed multiplication and division facts

99_Club 99 questions of mixed multiplication and division facts

The ultimate challenge is to complete all 99 questions of the 99 Club unaided, with no errors and within five minutes!

Sheets are available to download below for pupils to practice their level at home. You can support your child by finding out which level they are working at and helping them to practice the relevant times tables.

Staff and parents are of course welcome to have a go too! Can you beat Mr. Darling’s  99 Club time of one minute and 30 seconds…?

Answers 

11 Club – 11_Club Answers

22 Club – 22_Club Answers

33 Club – 33_Club Answers

44 Club – 44_Club Answers

55 Club – 55_Club Answers

66 Club – 66_Club Answers

77 Club – 77_Club Answers

88 Club – 88_Club Answers

99 Club – 99_Club Answers

Every Child a Reader
Further interventions to empower child to read using phonics alongside the other skills necessary to be a committed reader include “Every Child a Reader” which uses one to one tuition based on the reading recovery approach.

Maths
Please find below links on how we teach Maths at Lyons Hall Primary School

How we teach Maths at Lyons Hall

Addition guidance for parents

Subtraction guidance for parents

Multiplication guidance for parents

Division guidance for parents updated