the national curriculum

Question 1

what is the 1st key stage called and what age group

Answer 1

Early years
0 to 5

Question 2

what do children learn in the early years (6)

Answer 2

-alphabet
-high frequency words (she, and, the, it)
-tricky words (words which must be seen e.g she, the, the I sound (eye), to)
-phonic blends
-motor skills e.g how to hold pen or scissors
-via role play and show and tell

Question 3

what stage do children learn this
-alphabet
-high frequency words (she, and, the, it)
-tricky words (words which must be seen e.g she, the, the I sound (eye), to)
-phonic blends
-motor skills e.g how to hold pen or scissors
-via role play and show and tell

Answer 3

Early Years

Question 4

what key stage are ages 0 to 5

Answer 4

Early Years

Question 5

what is the 2nd key stage called and what age group

Answer 5

Key Stage 1
5 to 7

Question 6

what key stage are ages 5 to 7

Answer 6

Key stage 1

Question 7

what do children learn in key stage 1 (8)

Answer 7

-more phonics (Ofsted say are v important) and homophones
-unusual links between grapheme - phoneme correspondences (GPC) e.g loud vs should
-that graphemes represent sounds -exception words using whole word approach
-prefixes (un-), suffixes (-ed, -ing, -er, -est)
-punctuation: apostrophes for singular possession and contractions, full stops, exclamation and question marks
-writing for different genres and purposes e.g recounting, instructing, entertaining
-grammar
-how to form lower case and capital letters

Question 8

what stage do children learn this
-more phonics (Ofsted say are v important) and homophones
-unusual links between grapheme - phoneme correspondences (GPC) e.g loud vs should
-that graphemes represent sounds -exception words using whole word approach
-prefixes (un-), suffixes (-ed, -ing, -er, -est)
-punctuation: apostrophes for singular possession and contractions, full stops, exclamation and question marks
-writing for different genres and purposes e.g recounting, instructing, entertaining
-grammar
-how to form lower case and capital letters

Answer 8

Key Stage 1

Question 9

what key stage does the national curriculum begin being taught

Answer 9

key stage 1

Question 10

what is the 3rd key stage and what age

Answer 10

Key stage 2
7 to 11

Question 11

what key stage are ages 7 to 11

Answer 11

Key Stage 2

Question 12

what do children learn in key stage 2 (10)

Answer 12

-more prefixes and suffixes
-challenging homophones
-words that are often misspelt e.g understanding that if a word ends /v/ there is usually an <e> grapheme e.g live, love
-<s> or <es>
-possessive including possessive apostrophes with plurals
-punctuation: () , - : ;
-richer wider vocab
-range of sentence structures with reasonable accuracy
-to write more genres using correct form, right register (year 5 and 6)
-a range of linguistic conventions for reading and writing (descriptive and persuasive writing techniques)
-year 3 and 4, write simple sentences from memory that inc words and punctuation that they've been taught so far</es></s></e>