Adventurers class

Welcome to Adventurers

The Adventurers staff team are, Teacher - Mr Gill, HLTA - Mrs Draycott and Trainee Teacher - Miss Woodcock. Mrs Hessey, Mrs Eccles and Mr Quayle also work in Adventurers.

We are a Primary aged class at West Kirby School, full of imaginative and enthusiastic learners. We're keen to learn about the world and share their thoughts and ideas with each other.  Pupils from Adventurers move up to Navigators. 

Our key skills to learn as an Adventurer are to be:

• Brave
• Risk takers
• Resilient
• Prepared

We spark the children's natural curiosity and encourage them to take part in discussions and ask lots of questions. PSHE is part of this, taught in a cross curricular way in our Learning means the world' curriculum.

We enjoy hands-on learning opportunities and love to learn outdoors. The children have many opportunities to become brilliant problem solvers and really get stuck in to some interesting challenges.

Homework

Each half term the Primary class has homework which is sent home, linked to learning from the Pathfinders class. Pupils have the opportunity to choose two tasks per week. We also have books available online for parents and pupils to read at home. 

Reading and Phonics

At West Kirby School we are committed to providing synthetic phonics based on the ‘Read, Write, Inc’ and 'Read, Write, Inc Fresh Start' programme as recommended by the Department of Education. This ensures all of our children have the best opportunities provided in order for them to become competent and confident readers and writers as well as allowing children’s listening and speaking skills to develop. We successfully deliver a teaching programme that secures skills of decoding and word recognition enabling children at our school to read fluently with great enjoyment and pride.

Our high quality, daily phonics teaching is combined with a whole language approach and promotes the strong emphasis we place on building our ‘Reading for Pleasure’ culture.

In Adventurers our free readers read books from the school reading schemes, including Oxford Reading Tree and choose books from our library. 

Maths

At West Kirby School we are well resourced in enabling learning inside and outside the classroom. Our intent is for children to develop the fluency, knowledge and understanding to use mathematics as a tool for everyday life. Practical experiences and a growth mindset will ensure a solid understanding is gained which will foster a life-long love of maths. As a school we believe that all students can succeed in Mathematics.

ICT

In ICT we use Purple Mash which is an award winning ICT programme pupils to develop their computing skills and knowledge.

RE and PE

For RE and PE we use the Wirral Agreed Syllabus which is part of our weekly timetable. 

Modern Foreign language (MFL) - Mandarin Chinese

In Mandarin children enjoy learning the Chinese language and culture. They play games, sing songs and take part in role play.  

"Learning means the world' curriculum

Our new "learning means the world' theme based curriculum is innovative, forward thinking and highly relevant to our pupils' needs and thoroughly engages them as they tackle challenging topics and issues. 

Click here to find out more about our curriculum. 

Here's the themes we'll be covering as part of our curriculum ready for their journey to Navigators.