Our Curriculum
Curriculum information
Our school is an exciting place to learn. Our vision is to give every child coming into our school an education they enjoy which prepares them for academic and personal success now and in the future.
The aim of our curriculum is to provide a broad and balanced subject range which challenges, engages and children enjoy learning.
Our Curriculum
Cornerstones Curriculum
This is an exciting topic based curriculum, with pupil engagement and creativity at its heart. Each unit lasts for a complete half term and across the course of time all aspects of the National Curriculum are covered.
This programme embraces most curriculum subjects giving pupils a rounded learning experience where all of the subjects of the curriculum are interlinked.
Mathematics
In addition to the Cornerstones curriculum, we also have our White Rose Maths curriculum. This supports our discrete teaching of maths and ensures the children are able to access different levels of challenge and depth of application. We also give children the opportunity to learn and practice key maths skills daily in a short guided maths session. We promote the use and understanding of maths throughout our curriculum, encouraging children to use and apply their skills in science, geography, history, design technology and art.
English
We use Talk for Writing and quality key texts to help develop the skills of spoken language, reading and writing in accordance with the National Curriculum. Children get exciting opportunities to write for a range of purposes, applying their grammatical handwriting and spelling skills.
Our prime approach to early reading is phonics. This builds the children's understanding of how words are constructed. Children learn how to put sounds together to make complete words and then how to break words apart to spell them. We teach children to develop comprehension skills to ensure that they understand what they read and develop skills of inference, deduction and factual retrieval. Through reading a range of text types, the children are taught comprehension skills such as summarising, predicting, inferring and retrieving. We are keen to develop children's vocabulary and consequently the use of thesauruses and dictionaries is encouraged. The children have access to a wide range of texts which they are able to take home and share with their families.
Handwriting and Spelling
We have high expectations of our pupils' spelling and presentation. By Upper Key Stage 2 children are encouraged to use pen for the majority of their writing, using a practical, fluid handwriting style.
PE
Our PE lessons are taught using the PE Hub scheme which leads our children through the many aspects of PE including gymnastics, athletics and developing a wide variety of skills.
RE
Schools have to decide the scheme and syllabus they use for teaching RE. In this school we use the Kent Syllabus.
Curriculum by Year Group
Please use the links below to access your child’s current area of learning, if you have any further questions please contact the school.
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Year R | Do cow drink milk? | Why do squirrels hide their nuts? | Where does snow go? | Are eggs alive? | Why do Zebras have stripes? | Who lives in a rock pool? |
Year 1 |
- What is camouflage for? - What can worms sense?
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- What's in a bud? - How do leaves change?
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-What keeps us dry? -How does it feel?
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- Can you be a superhero? - What makes the loudest sound?
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Year 2 |
- Why do boats float? - Can you find the treasure?
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- Where do worms like to live?
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- Portraits and poses?
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- How does grass grow? - Can seeds grow anywhere? -What's on your wellies? |
- Will it degrade? Beach hut
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- Teams Can you make a paper bridge? How do germs spread? Still life
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Year 3 |
- What are flowers for?
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- Why did Icarus fall from the sky
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- Ammonite
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- Prehistoric pots
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Year 4 |
- Can we block sound? - How can we change a sound? - How far can sound travel?
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- Did the Romans use toilet roll?
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- How do smells get up your nose? - What is spit for? - How does toothpaste protect teeth?
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- How does pollution affect habitats? - Are all sea creatures the same?
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Year 5 |
- Why does milk go off?
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-What do Pullys do?
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-How clean are your hands? -How does the moon move? - How do we know the Earth is round? |
- Why does a compass always point North?
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- Eat The Seasons
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- Do we slow down as we get older?
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Year 6 |
- Can you send a coded message?
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- what colour is a shadow?
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- Why are things classified?
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- How have eyes evolved? - What's in blood? - What can your heart rate tell you?
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- Can fruit light a bulb?
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