The School Curriculum
We believe that every child should receive an excellent education. The children are taught a broad and balanced curriculum, which allows them to develop their skills and knowledge in all areas of the curriculum. Our Teaching and Learning Policy can be found on our Policy Page.
To view a word document detailing the curriculum activities planned for each year group this term please click here.
We want to ensure children develop a love of learning, so lessons are fun and stimulating and encourage the children to be actively involved in their own learning. Visit our Science Day page for examples of some of the ways our children learn.
Our children also enjoy a wide range of sporting activities, visit our Sports Page for more details.
The Foundation Stage Guidance
Our youngest children, in their first class, will be taught the Foundation Stage Curriculum.
There are six areas of learning:
1) Communication, Language and Literacy
2) Mathematical Understanding
3) Knowledge and Understanding of the World
4) Physical Development
5) Creative Development
6) Personal and Social development
In Foundation Stage, The Foundation Stage Profile enables the staff to ensure that each child is making progress against the expectations and this will be shared with parents at the end of the year.
The National Curriculum
In Years One and Two, the children will be taught the National Curriculum and will study English, Maths, Science, Information and Communications Technology (ICT), Religious Education, History, Geography, Design Technology, Art, Music and Physical Education.
The framework of the National curriculum is used when planning our schemes of work for the children. Programmes of study in all curriculum areas at Key Stage 1 are covered.
The Literacy Hour takes place daily throughout the school. The National Numeracy strategy has also been fully implemented throughout the school.
Emphasis is placed on attainment in the basic skills of reading, writing and maths. Our aims are for the children to:
- Read fluently and accurately, with understanding and feeling.
- Develop a legible style of handwriting and a good standard of spelling and punctuation.
- Communicate clearly and confidently in speech and writing.
- Listen attentively and with understanding.
- Learn how to acquire information from various sources and to record information and findings in various ways.
- Understand the application of mathematical ideas in various situations in the home, classroom, school and local area.
- Observe living and inanimate things and to recognise characteristics such as pattern and order.
- Investigate basic scientific ideas.
- Solve problems.
- To have knowledge of the everyday uses of IT in the world around them. To achieve IT capability at the appropriate level for their Key Stage.
- Develop self awareness and sensitivity to others. To acquire a set of moral values and to develop habits of self-discipline and acceptable behaviour.
- Be aware of other times and places, and link them with local events.
- Enjoy a wide variety of aesthetic activities such as music, drama, art and craft.
- Develop agility and physical co-ordination. To have confidence in physical activity and to be able to express feeling through movement.
SATs and Assessment
In Years One and Two, teacher assessments are made regularly to monitor progress in English, Maths, Science and ICT. We will share their targets with you at Parents Meetings. At the end of Year Two, the children will be more formally assessed and take Standardised Assessments Tasks (SATs), which will give parents information about their child's chievements against class and national averages.
In all assessments, the children are wholly unaware of the procedure being anything other than every day school work - we do not put pressure on the children in any way.