Curriculum
SCHOOL CURRICULUM
We follow the National Curriculum for Years 1 – 6 inclusive, preceeded by the Foundation Stage curriculum for Reception children.
Teaching and Learning
In order to become successful learners we believe our teaching needs to contain the following components;
• active involvment of the children in their own learning
• sharing learning goals with our pupils
• giving our children rich verbal and written feedback
• effective questioning
• helping our children identify their next steps and how to take them
• adjusting our teaching to take account of our assessments
• confidence that every child can improve and achieve
Foundation Stage Curriculum
The Reception year is the last year of the Foundation Stage and the most important year of a child’s school life! It is the aim of the reception staff to make this year a happy, exciting and challenging experience for the reception children.
Our curriculum is broken down into 6 areas of learning:
• Personal, social and emotional development
• Communication, language and literacy
• Problem solving, reasoning and numeracy
• Knowledge and understanding of the world
• Physical development
• Creative development
Because children learn best through play, we try to provide opportunities and space for children to be active learners both indoors and out. We aim to organise an environment that maximises opportunities for self motivated, creative learning because we want the children to be independent learners.
At the end of the reception year the children are well prepared for the challenges of Year 1.