School and Class Organisation

From the Reception Class the school allocates all children to classes according to their age and needs ability.

The Year 6 classes have the oldest children, and the Reception classes have the youngest. Each of the seven year groups has two classes, making fourteen classes in all, plus the nursery.

The staff always expect a wide range of ability, and consider the children as individuals with individual educational needs.

In a large school like Smithy Bridge, it is very important that we all work together to keep in touch with the differing needs of the various parts of the school.

A great deal of thought has gone into ways in which teachers can make the school as personal as possible to your child.

The school is organised into three Key Stages.

The first - the Foundation Stage - comprises pupils in the Nursery and Reception years (Classes 1 and 2).

The second comprises Years 1 and 2 as Key Stage 1 (Classes 3, 4, 5 and 6).

The third and largest, Key Stage 2, comprises Years 3, 4, 5 and 6 (Classes 7, 8, 9, 10 11, 12, 13 and 14).

The three Key Stages ensure that the staff of each part of school work together in the best interests of the children, with their progress, their needs and the environment in which the children work all being paramount.

Each Stage is led by one of the senior staff, who is responsible for the unit to the headteacher and deputy head.

Each group of teachers and support staff within the three Key Stages spend much time, outside normal teaching time, discussing the work and development of the children, so that the school ensures a consensus in the ways that the staff teach, and in the expectations we have of your child.

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