Curriculum

"The Curriculum Gifts that we give to our children"

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We hope that you find the subject pages useful in getting to know our curriculum. Click the gift to explore each subject area.

Phonics

To teach children to read and write by blending and segmenting individual sounds and to build children's speaking and listening skills.

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Reading

To ensure our children can read easily, fluently and with good understanding. To read to themselves or to others (peers and adults) To read to a variety of audiences and to hear adults and children read to them. To read regularly and to develop a respect for books, language and literature.

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Writing

To articulate and communicate ideas, organising them to be easily read. To have an awareness of the audience, purpose and context, and an increasingly deep knowledge of spelling ,vocabulary and grammar.

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Maths

To provide a solid foundation in mathematics, gaining a deep understanding of mathematics and enjoy solving mathematical problems whilst fully embedding key skills and mathematical facts

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Science

To be surprised by what happens and excited about what they discover when working practically and to ask ambitious questions

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Languages

Take part in role-play and drama activities using a foreign language . Read foreign translations of books they know and versions of familiar films and TV shows, to both support language acquisition and

intercultural understanding

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Design Tech

To have opportunities to use things they have made recognising that their work really is purposeful and practical and to produce something of their own that makes them go,“Wow!” and that is bigger than them!

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Art

To experience the process of ‘being’ an artist, working on canvas, using an easel, organising, using and caring for their tools and seeking out new inspiration and receiving feedback from their audience.

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Computing

A chance to try things out, go wrong & discover and to produce something of their own that makes them go ‘Wow!’

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Music

To sing on stage to a (large) audience, both through school productions and projects .

Learn to play a musical instrument over an extended period of time, and be given opportunities to develop this further. To perform a large-scale musical with peers, using microphones, staging and costumes.

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PE

Take part in adventurous, outdoor activities, such as climbing, abseiling, raft building or orienteering. Be introduced to local clubs and training centres through in-school taster sessions. To Play sport in front of spectators (through inter school events and our Sports Days)

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Geography

To understand our planet, how we inhabit it and our effect on it and to talk to people who have lived and grown-up in different parts of the world. To explore through walks, visits and fieldwork to parks, shops and other places locally and beyond.

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History

To develop a sense of historical order and ‘scale’ and to practice the skills of questioning, enquiry, evaluation and interpretation. To understand our past, learn from our mistakes and successes to make a positive impact on our future.

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Relationships

To develop fundamental building blocks and characteristics of positive relationships, with particular reference to friendships, family relationships, and relationships with other children and with adults

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RE

To enable pupils to develop religious literacy and conceptual understanding of what it means to be a person of faith or no faith. To encourage pupils to articulate their own ideas and experience of religion, belief and spirituality.

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PSHE

To take on positions of responsibility and leadership

within school. Meet local leaders in a range of fields (councillors, faith leaders, business people etc.) and learn about their role and the skills they need to be successful.

Have regular opportunities to discuss personal views,

ideas and beliefs in an open, trusting environment

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Sex Education

Prepare pupils for puberty, and give them an understanding of sexual development and the importance of health and hygiene. Help pupils develop feelings of self-respect, confidence and empathy. Create a positive culture around issues of sexuality and relationships.

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Personal Development

To develop children’s interests, their character (including developing resilience, confidence an independence) and prepare them for life in modern society

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SMSC

To give the information, skills, experiences and mindset they need to help them develop as informed, respectful and active citizens in society

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Spoken Language

To develop the quality and variety of language that pupils hear and speak, underpinning the development of reading and writing enabling pupils to build vocabulary knowledge, articulate and justify views and give well structured descriptions and explanations

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EYFS

To prepare pupils for what’s to come throughout their school years and to instil positive attitudes towards learning through enabling, warm, positive , creative and inspiring objective driven, play lead learning environments.

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