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Curriculum |
The Early Years and Foundation Stage Curriculum:
For the Reception class the curriculum consists of six major areas of learning. These are:- The most important aspect for young children, however, is to feel safe and secure and happy within the school. They learn about these six major areas of the curriculum through ‘Educational Play’. Children may well be learning more about the world and mathematics, for example, through activities in the sand tray. Their language and literacy will be developed through story and direct teaching of reading skills and phonics, but will also happen through the Home Corner activities or playing on the computer. The National Curriculum: For children in years 1 – 6 the school teaches the full requirements of the National Curriculum and Religious Education and also offers extensive personal, social and health education as well as extra curricular activities. The National Curriculum defines the subjects of the curriculum to be taught as: · English · Mathematics · Science · Information Communication Technology (ICT) · Design and Technology · History · Geography · Music · Art · P.E. · R.E. · PSHE The National Curriculum is divided into 2 Key Stages at primary school: - Key Stage 1 (5 - 7 year olds) and Key Stage 2 (8 - 11 year olds). Whilst the requirements of the National Curriculum are subject-orientated, this does not mean that the teaching week is divided up in a way that is always conspicuously labelled by these subjects. Particularly for our younger pupils, but also throughout the school, it is more natural to develop programmes of study and meet attainment targets through a cross-curricular topic. Sometimes it is artificial to teach certain subjects and skills within such a topic, and so these aspects are taught in specific subject lessons. As the children progress through the school our teaching becomes more subject-specific. English, Mathematics, Science and ICT are considered to be Core Subjects. The remaining subjects are considered to be Foundation Subjects. Each term we produce a Curriculum Newsletter pertaining to individual classes/year groups.