Implementation
Communication and reading are core skills, which are taught to all learners throughout the school day, feeding into all areas of our curriculum. Our daily routines are planned and centred on developing communication skills; therefore it is afforded enough time within our timetables in a variety of ways to ensure the building of vocabulary, skills and knowledge.
Learners access a range of communication methods to enable them to choose and develop their preferred form of communication, including the use of technology and symbols. They are exposed to a variety of language to develop their vocabulary.
Teaching is delivered not just through explicit literacy lessons but also by cross-curricular activities, continuous provision, daily routines, 1:1 and small group work, whole school immersive themed events, external provider visits and trips within the community. Learners have practical and enriching opportunities to enhance their learning, not only academically, but also socially and emotionally.
A range of teaching strategies are used to facilitate the teaching of communication including direction, demonstration, modelling, scaffolding, facilitating, explanation and discussion, questioning, guided exploration, investigations, listening/responding and evaluating. There is progression of skills and experiences across each phase of education.
Where possible Yeoman Park Academy follows the RWI scheme for the teaching of systematic synthetic phonics; this can be adapted to meet the needs of our learners.
