Localised Curriculum

The OCL curriculum is a bespoke curriculum, designed to meet the ethos and aims of the trust and to give advantage to the disadvantaged in providing a world-class education for all children we serve. The nature of the design in using technology to gain detailed insight into children's starting points and teach into any gaps means delivery will automatically vary in each academy to meet the needs of the student in that specific setting and cohort. The knowledge selected has been carefully considered to ensure children know the best of what has been thought and said and is broad and deep in terms of equality, diversity and inclusion.

There are some areas of the curriculum where academies develop content further to include localised and contextual information such as the 'Who am I and Who am I becoming' theme where children look at their local history and geography and element of PSHE where local safe guarding considerations are more specifically focussed on where necessary to do so. Leaders in these areas can discuss this localisation in more detail.

Phonics - This supersedes the Bookwings information in the reading and phonics page

At Oasis Academy Long Cross, we use the Little Wandle Letters and Sounds Systematic Synthetic Phonics programme (SSP) to teach phonics and early reading.
 

This is a fully comprehensive programme in which children start learning single letter sounds in the autumn term of Reception and build on this progressively throughout Reception, Year One and Year Two.

Phonics is taught twice every day and children have the opportunity to apply their phonics skills in reading practice sessions 3 times a week, developing their fluency and comprehension skills.

We also use the Little Wandle Rapid Catch-up programme to support any pupil in Year 2 and above who is not fully fluent in reading or has not passed the Phonic Screening Check. Through the use of placement and fluency assessments, we are able to identify gaps in pupils' phonic knowledge and teach to these using the Rapid Catch-up resources.

Below is the link to the 'For Parents' section of the Little Wandle website. 

www.littlewandlelettersandsounds.org.uk/resources/for-parents/   

The resources on this page will provide you with all of the information about the programme and will help you to support your child with saying their phonemes (sounds) and writing their graphemes (letters). There are also useful videos to enable you to see how your child is taught at school, to be able to confidently support their reading at home. 

If you wish to purchase a set of Little Wandle Letters and Sounds Revised phonics flashcards to support your child with their phonics and reading at home, please follow the link below

www.collins.co.uk/collections/little-wandle-letters-and-sounds-revised-phonics-flashcards

If you have any additional questions regarding the Little Wandle programme, please contact the school office to arrange an appointment with Mrs Bowyer, our Phonics Leader.