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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.

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. From Year 3 to Year 6 we use No Nonsense Spelling for accuracy in spelling the 1000 high frequency words.

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 taught through the Little Wandle Letters and Sounds. 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.

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.

 

 

Term 1

Term 2

Term 3

Term 4

Term 5

Term 6

EYFS

Creep, Wriggle and Crawl

Sparkle and Shine

Winter Wonderland

Once Upon a Time

 

Sunshine and Sunflowers

On the Beach

Year 1

Paws, Claws and Whiskers

 

Animal Parts

 

Mix It

Splendid Skies

 

Seasonal changes

 

Moon Zoom

Our Wonderful World

 

School Days

 

Street View

Dinosaur Planet

 

Chop, Slice and Mash


 

Enchanted Woodland

 

Every Day Materials

 

Funny faces and fabulous features

Bright Lights, Big City


Taxi

 

Year 2

Land Ahoy

 

Beach Hut

 

 

Magnificent

Monarchs

 

Muck Mess and

Mixture

Street Detectives

 

Use of

Materials

 

Still Life

Mover and Shakers

 

Human Survival

 

Cut, Stitch and

Join

 

 

Let’s Explore

the World

 

Animal survival

 

Remarkable

Recipes

Coastlines

 

Plant Survival

 

Flower Head

Year 3

Mighty Metals

 

Light and Shadow

 

Making it Move

Through the Ages

Animal Nutrition and the Skeletal System

Contrast and Compliment

Through the Ages

People and Places

Rocks, Relics and Rumbles

Cook Well, Eat Well

Emperors and Empires

Mosaic Masters

One Planet, Our World

Plant Nutrition and Reproduction

Greenhouse

Year 4

Invasion

 

Contrast and complement

 

Electrical Circuits and Conductors

 

Food and the Digestive System

 

Fresh Food, Good Food

 

Interconnected world

 

Statues, Statuettes & Figurines

 

 

Sound

 

Potions

Misty Mountains, Winding Rivers

 

Grouping and Classifying

 

Vista

Ancient Civilisation

 

Functional & Fancy Fabrics

Year 5

Allotment

 

Eat the Season

Fallen fields

 

Forces & Mechanisms

 

Tints, Tones & Shades

Dynamic Dynasties

 

Earth and Space

 

Line, Light & Shadow

Groundbreaking Greeks

 

Moving Mechanisms

Properties and changes of materials

 

Architecture

Investigating our world

 

Nature’s Art

 

Human Reproductive & Ageing.

Year 6

Hola Mexico

 

Light Theory

 

Colour theory - Tints, Tones and Shades

Frozen Kingdom

 

Can we slow cooling down?

 

Distortion and Abstraction

A Childs War

 

Make do and Mend

Maafa

 

Electrical circuits and components

 

Engineer

 

Our Changing World

 

Environmental Artists

 

Blood Heart

 

Food for Life