Curriculum Design
Our ‘school curriculum’ is the child’s whole experience at All Saints’ First School. Our curriculum ensures that every child is given the opportunity to flourish and develop confidence and independence, to enable them to be the best they can be and achieve their god given potential.
At All Saints’, we value the uniqueness of each individual child, recognising and nurturing their potential for learning. Our aim, through our tailor-made curriculum, is to ensure every child is inspired to be the best they can be, to instil Christian values that will be carried with them through life’s journey and to inspire them to make a positive contribution to the community.
We believe that our curriculum provides the right balance between understanding and using knowledge as well as developing and applying skills, leading to better understanding and progression for the pupils.
Intent
Our curriculum has been designed with the following intent:
♦ Safeguarding and promoting the well-being of both children and adults so that all know that they will be cared for.
♦ Celebrating diversity, recognise individual needs and provide fair opportunities for all.
♦ Ensuring that everyone is given the opportunity to flourish and develop confidence and independence, to enable them to be the best they can be and achieve their god given potential.
♦ Encouraging everyone to take responsibility for their own actions and develop the ability to persevere.
♦ Providing a Christian, caring community for all, where there are respectful relationships based on friendship, compassion, kindness, honesty and forgiveness, so that everyone lives well together.
♦ Ensuring RE and Worship is central to the life of the school, to encourage the spiritual development of all children and adults.
♦ Delivering a well-taught, creative, relevant, broad and balanced curriculum, which inspires the children to see God’s world as a place of wonder, and develops a love of learning.
♦ Working collaboratively with parents, learners, members of the community, the church, educational partners and other professionals to ensure all children receive the very best start to their learning journey.
Our School Curriculum
Our curriculum is comprised of three equally important elements:
All three elements are important to meet out curriculum intent. Our curriculum therefore places equal importance on each element. Our school values of:
Respect Kindness Confidence Independence Responsibility Creativity Love of Learning Perseverance
are entwined through the whole curriculum, and not just the personal and spiritual element.
National Curriculum
We strive for children to learn skills alongside knowledge, ensuring that both are developed and intertwined. We do this by having an emphasis on cross-curricular teaching, where purposeful and relevant, with a strong focus on sequential and progressive skills. We believe that this is important for making the curriculum relevant and meaningful to pupils and for putting knowledge into context.
We believe that it is our responsibility to develop the Literacy and Numeracy skills for all of our pupils. Using the Early Years Foundation Stage Strategy and National Curriculum as a basis, age-appropriate progression and knowledge for each core and foundation subject has been identified. This has been mapped out to ensure coverage of identified knowledge is secured across KS1 and KS2. We carefully select the sequence of when, what and how knowledge is taught and subject leaders work actively to review this regularly.
Enrichment Curriculum
We embed Enrichment opportunities to help us to meet many aspects of our curriculum intent, including:
♦ Ensuring that everyone is given the opportunity to flourish and develop confidence and independence, to enable them to be the best they can be and achieve their god given potential.
♦ Providing a Christian, caring community for all, where there are respectful relationships based on friendship, compassion, kindness, honesty and forgiveness, so that everyone lives well together.
♦ Delivering a well-taught, creative, relevant, broad and balanced curriculum, which inspires the children to see God’s world as a place of wonder, and develops a love of learning.
♦ Working collaboratively with parents, learners, members of the community, the church, educational partners and other professionals to ensure all children receive the very best start to their learning journey.
Personal and Spiritual
Our Personal and Spiritual curriculum opportunities help the children to develop respectful relationships based on friendship, compassion, kindness, honesty and forgiveness, so that everyone lives well together. It encourages the celebration of diversity, recognises individual needs and provides fair opportunities for all. RE and Worship is therefore central to the life of the school, and we encourage the spiritual development of all children.
Together the three parts of our curriculum, within the context of our school vision and values, aim to inspire all children to be the best they can be in order to flourish as children of God. It nurtures all those who learn and work in our school, and instils Christian values that will be carried with the children through life’s journey and will inspire them to make a positive contribution to the community.
Curriculum Design
As part of the curriculum design, we have addressed the following:
♦ Developing sequential learning, where pupils know more and can do more, building on what they have been previously taught
♦ Local context and enriching the lives of pupils
♦ Strong focus on subject-specific skills
♦ Considering depth, breadth and curriculum content
♦ Seeing the curriculum as a progressive model, by reviewing and evaluating curriculum design regularly, and taking opportunities to incorporate current events or local issues
♦ Having a clear purpose for assessment
♦ Listening to pupil’s voice so that this feeds into the curriculum
♦ Clear curriculum leadership and ownership for all
Our-Curriculum-Gallery (ID 1080)
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MathematicsClick to read more
Mathematics
We want all our children to become fluent in the fundamentals of mathematics, so that pupils develop conceptual understanding and the ability to recall and apply knowledge rapidly and accurately. We want them to learn to reason mathematically and to solve problems by applying their mathematics to a variety of routine and nonroutine problems with increasing sophistication, including breaking down problems into a series of simpler steps and persevering in seeking solutions.
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Reading
Reading
We want all children to learn to read easily, fluently and with good understanding. We want them to learn to love reading and to develop the habit of reading widely and often, for both pleasure and information. We help them to acquire a wide vocabulary, an understanding of grammar and knowledge of linguistic conventions for reading, writing and spoken language.
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Writing
Writing
We aim for all our children to be able to write clearly, accurately and coherently, adapting their language and style in and for a range of contexts, purposes and audiences. We want them to love writing creatively and transfer their knowledge gained from their love of reading into their writing.
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Science
Science
We want all our children to develop scientific knowledge and conceptual understanding in aspects of biology, chemistry and physical processes. We aim to develop understanding of the nature, processes and methods of science through different types of science enquiries that help them to answer scientific questions about the world around them.
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R.E.
R.E.
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Computing
Computing
In Computing we want all children to learn to apply the fundamental principles and concepts of computer science, including logic and algorithms. We teach them to analyse problems, and give them practical experience of writing computer programs in order to solve such problems. They also learn how to be responsible, competent, confident and creative users of information and communication technology across the whole curriculum.
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Music
Music
In Music, we aim to ensure that all children perform, listen to, review and evaluate music across a range of historical periods, genres, styles and traditions, They learn to sing and to use their voices, to create and compose music on their own and with others and have the opportunity to learn a musical instrument. We aim for them to understand and explore how music is created, produced and communicated, including through the inter-related dimensions: pitch, duration, dynamics, tempo, timbre, texture, structure and appropriate musical notations.
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Design and Technology
Design and Technology
Design and technology is an inspiring and practical subject. We want all children to develop the creative, technical and practical skills. We teach them the skills to design and make high-quality products for a wide range of users, and evaluate and test their products and the work of others. We want them to understand and apply the principles of nutrition and learn how to cook.
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Art
Art
Art and design education engages and inspires our children. We equip them with the knowledge and skills to experiment, invent and create their own works of art.
We want all children to get the chance to produce creative work, exploring their ideas and recording their experiences, and become proficient in drawing, painting, sculpture and other art, craft and design techniques. Our children will learn to evaluate and analyse art using the language of art, craft and design and learn about great artists, craft makers and designers.
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P.E.
P.E.
Our physical education curriculum provide opportunities for children to become physically confident in a way which supports their health and fitness. We aim for all children develop competence in a broad range of physical activities. We ensure that they are physically active for sustained periods of time, and have the opportunity to engage in a variety of sports and activities, in order to lead healthy, active lives.
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PSHE
PSHE
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French
French
Our children learn conversational French right from Reception. We aim to ensure that all our children understand and respond to spoken language from a variety of authentic sources and speak with increasing confidence, fluency and spontaneity, continually improving the accuracy of their pronunciation and intonation.
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Geography
Geography
Geography should inspire in pupils a curiosity and fascination about the world and its people. We teach our children about places, people, resources and natural and human environments, and the Earth’s key physical and human processes.
We teach the children about physical and human characteristics, skills to help them collect, analyse and communicate with a range of data gathered through fieldwork. We also develop their understanding of maps, diagrams, globes, aerial photographs and Geographical Information Systems (GIS) and teach them to communicate geographical information in a variety of ways.
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History
History
In History we help our children gain knowledge and understanding of Britain’s past and that of the wider world. We want our children to be curious to know more about the past, and to ask questions, think critically, weigh evidence and develop judgement.
We want them to understand historical concepts, such as continuity and change, and learn methods of historical enquiry, including how evidence is used.