Children
Curriculum
Foundation Stage Curriculum
The Foundation Stage curriculum is organised into six areas of learning:
- personal, social and emotional development
- communication, language and literacy
- mathematical development
- knowledge and understanding of the world
- physical development
- creative development
One experience may provide a child with opportunities to develop a number of competencies, skills and concepts across several areas of learning
Personal, Social and Emotional Development
Successful personal, social and emotional development is critical for very young children in all aspects of their lives and gives them the best opportunity for success in all other areas of learning. It is crucial that settings provide the experiences and support to enable children to develop a positive sense of themselves.
Communication, Language and Literacy
This area of learning includes communication, speaking and listening in different situations and for different purposes, being read a wide range of books and reading simple texts and writing for a variety of purposes.
Mathematical Development
This area of learning includes counting, sorting, matching, seeking patterns, making connections, recognising relationships and working with numbers, shapes, space and measures. Mathematical understanding should be developed through stories, songs, games and imaginative play, so that children enjoy using and experimenting with numbers, including numbers larger than 10.
Knowledge and Understanding of the World
In this area of learning, children are developing the crucial knowledge, skills and understanding that help them to make sense of the world. This forms the foundation for later work in science, design and technology, history, geography, and information and communication technology (ICT).
Physical Development
Physical development in the foundation stage is about improving skills of coordination, control, manipulation and movement. Physical development has two other very important aspects. It helps children gain confidence in what they can do and enables them to feel the positive benefits of being healthy and active. Effective physical development helps children develop a positive sense of well-being.
Creative Development
Creativity is fundamental to successful learning. Being creative enables children to make connections between one area of learning and another and so extend their understanding. This area of learning includes art, music, dance, role play and imaginative play.
Key Stage 1 Curriculum
Children in Key Stage 1 will be taught the following subjects:
- English
- Mathematics
- Science
- Information and Communication Technology (ICT)
- Religious Education (RE)
- Personal, Social and Health Education (PSHE)
- Design and Technology (DT)
- History
- Geography
- Art and Design
- Music
- Physical Education (PE)
English / Literacy
Year 1 topics
- Stories with familiar settings
- Stories and rhymes with patterned and predictable language
- Signs labels, captions, lists, instructions
- Traditional stories / fairy stories
- Plays
- Information texts, non chronological reports, dictionary work
- Fantasy worlds
- Reports, observations, visits, events
Year 2 topics
- Stories and poems with familiar settings
- Instructions
- Traditional stories and poems from other cultures
- Stories and poems with patterned and predictable language
- Significant poets
- Dictionaries, glossaries, alphabetically ordered texts, explanations
- Different stories, same author
- Language play eg tongue twisters
- Information texts, non chronological reports
- Extended stories
- Significant authors
Mathematics / Numeracy
Year 1 topics
- Counting, properties of numbers and number sequences
- Reasoning about numbers
- Place value, ordering, estimating
- Understanding + and ?
- Mental calculation strategies (+ and ?)
- Money and ?real life? problems
- Making decisions
- Shape and space
- Reasoning about shapes
- Measures and time, including problems
- Handling data
Year 2 topics
- Counting, properties of numbers and number sequences
- Reasoning about numbers
- Place value, ordering, estimating, rounding
- Understanding + and -
- Mental calculation strategies (+ -)
- Money and ?real life? problems
- Making decisions, checking results
- Shape and space
- Reasoning about shapes
- Understanding x and ÷
- Mental calculation strategies (x and ÷)
- Fractions
- Measures, and time, including problems
- Handling data
Science
Year 1 topics
- Ourselves
- Light and dark
- Pushes and pulls
- Sound and hearing
- Growing plants
- Materials
Year 2 topics
- Health and growing
- Changing materials
- Forces and movement
- Electricity
- Variation and classification
- Plants and animals in the local environment
Information and Communication Technology
Year 1 topics
- Handling information
- Communicating information
- Labelling and classifying
- Representing information graphically
- Information around us
- Understanding instructions
Year 2 topics
- Communicating information
- Creating pictures
- Understanding instructions
- Question and answers
- Finding information
- Routes
Religious Education
Year 1 topics
- Harvest
- Celebrations
- Special people
- Christmas
- Our Church visit
- What happens in Church
- Judaism
- Easter
Year 2 topics
- Harvest
- Stories that Jesus told
- Christmas
- Islam
- Easter
Personal, Social and Health Education
Year 1 topics
- New beginning
- Taking part
- Getting on and falling out
- Choices
- Going for goals
- Living in a diverse world
- Good to be me / bullying
- Animals and us
- Relationships
- People who help us
- Changes
Year 2 topics
- New beginning
- Taking part
- Getting on and falling out
- Choices
- Going for goals
- Living in a diverse world
- Good to be me / bullying
- Animals and us
- Relationships
- People who help us
- Changes
Design Technology
Year 1 topics
- Mechanisms
- Playground structures
- Moving pictures
- Food technology
Year 2 topics
- Vehicles
- Winding up
- Puppets
- Food technology
History
Year 1 topics
- Our own timeline
- How clothes have changed
- Toys and games
- Homes long ago
Year 2 topics
- Fire of London
- Famous people
- Seaside holidays in the past
Geography
Year 1 topics
- Holidays
- Where our food comes from
- Our local area
- Where is Barnaby Bear?
Year 2 topics
- An island home
- Going to the seaside
- Global eye (looking at our world)
Art and Design
Year 1 topics
- Self portrait ~ focus colour / line / shape
- Graphics ~ focus colour / line / shape
- Texture, line and shape
- Artists & craftspeople
Year 2 topics
- Natural form
- Investigating textiles
- Sculpture, shape, form, texture (links with artists)
Music
Year 1 topics
- Pitch
- Timbre / texture
- Dynamics
- Duration / tempo
- Structure
Year 2 topics
- Pitch
- Timbre / texture
- Dynamics
- Duration / tempo
- Structure
Our Work
School Council
Our school council meets weekly to discuss issues relating to school, eg school rules, school lunches, playground equipment, eco school. Two children were elected by each year 2 class and one in year 1 class to represent the views of that class.
Learning Zone
Some useful and fun Learning Links for Children