Curriculum Design

This is one of three pages on our curriculum.

Curriculum Design – This page! Our Long Term Plan and the scope and sequence of our curriculum, with year-end expectations for learning.
Curriculum Rationale – How the Early Years Foundation Stage, the National Curriculum, our context, our priorities and our values work together.
Curriculum Support – Our current topic plans, letters and guides for parents, advice on national tests and homework!

Please click on a subject or area and expand the tab for further information.

The National Curriculum

THE PRIMARY NATIONAL CURRICULUM in full can be accessed here –

Curriculum – Long Term Plan

Long Term Plans - Overview

The 'Long Term Plan - Overview' details the sequence of subject-based themes taught in each class over our two-year cycle. Where possible, we sequence different subjects with a shared aspect in the same half-term block, allowing children to experience learning in a more rounded, cross-curricular way. For example, the geographical study of volcanoes will be taught in the same term as the historical study of 'The Romans', allowing the tragic events in ancient Pompeii to form a rich backdrop to learning. The integrity of each subject, however, is retained.
LONG TERM PLAN FOR 2023-24 - UPDATED Jan 2024

LONG TERM PLAN FOR READING

National Curriculum Coverage - in detail

Principally, these documents serve as an 'audit' tool, helping us to ensure that across our two year cycle of teaching, all the requirements of the Early Years Foundation Stage and the National Curriculum are met.

These DRAFT documents are undergoing a final edit in September 2022.

Curriculum – Subjects

Early Years Foundation Stage

INTENT

The Foundation Stage is important in its own right and in preparing children for later schooling. The early learning goals set out what is expected of most children at the end of the Foundation Stage. It is the school’s view that children should develop within a happy, secure environment encouraging self-confidence, independence and self-motivation as these are a fundamental basis for their future progress. Children joining our school have already learnt a great deal. Many have been to one of a range of settings that exist in our community. The early years education we offer our children is based on the following principles:

it builds on what our children already know and can do.
it ensures that no child is excluded or disadvantaged.
it offers a structure for learning that has a range of starting points and content that matches the different levels of young children’s needs.
it offers planned and purposeful activities that provide opportunities for learning both indoors and outdoors.
it provides a rich and stimulating environment.
it offers planned activities that build on the children’s interests.

KEY SKILLS

To underpin all future learning by

supporting, fostering and promoting children’s personal, social and emotional well-being,
their social skills and attitutes, their attention skills,
their language and communication skills (speaking, listening, reading and writing) and
their mathematical, physical and creative development.

Art and Design

KEY SKILLS

To develop ideas
To master techniques in 2D & 3D with a range of materials and media
To evaluate work
To build knowledge and appreciation of prominent artists

British Values

KEY VALUES

Democracy
The rule of law
Individual liberty
Mutual respect
Tolerance of those of different faiths and beliefs

British Values in greater detail

Computing, Digital Citizenship and E-Safety

KEY SKILLS

To build understanding of algorithms and programs
To develop skills in data retrieval and organisation
To use a range of technologies to communicate
To develop knowledge and attitudes around e-safety and digital citizenship

Design Technology

KEY SKILLS

To develop, plan and communicate ideas
To master practical skills with a range of materials & media
To evaluate and improve their work
To evaluate tools, equipment and materials
To take inspiration from design throughout history

English

KEY SKILLS

Reading – Phonics and word recognition, fluency, oral reading skills, using grammar, comprehension, responding to texts
Writing –Drafting, Reviewing & Editing, Spelling, Grammar, Vocabulary, Punctuation, Presentation

Geography

KEY SKILLS

To investigate patterns and places
To build understanding of physical geography
To build understanding of Human Geography

History

KEY SKILLS

To build chronological understanding
To build historical knowledge
To build a capacity to interpret historical evidence and points of view
To equip children with skills of historical enquiry

Languages (Key Stage 2)

KEY SKILLS

To listen and respond to an additional language
To speak an additional language
To read and understand an additional language
To write in an additional language

Maths

KEY SKILLS To build fluency, reasoning and problem-solving skills in

Number & Place Value,
Addition & Subtraction,
Multiplication & division,
Fractions, decimals & percentages,
Measurement,
Properties of shapes,
Position & direction,
Statistics,
Ratio & proportion (Y6),
Algebra (Y6)

Music

KEY SKILLS

Performing
Composing (including notation)
Appraising

Personal Independence

KEY SKILLS

To develop independent study skills
To develop independent, personal organisation skills
To work towards school-wide responsibilities

Phonics

Our page on phonics (which is due an unpdate in 2022) answers the following questions:

Which Phonics approach does North Nibley use?
What are phonics?
What is the Government’s Phonics Screening Check?
How do children progress through our Reading Scheme?

Our page on Phonics

Physical Education

KEY SKILLS

To acquire, develop, evaluate and refine skills in Athletics, Dance, Games, Gymnastics, Swimming, Outdoor and adventurous activities
To participate and compete as individuals and in teams
To understand and adopt the habits of a healthy lifestyle

Religious Education

KEY SKILLS

To understand a range of beliefs and non-belief
To understand the impact of these beliefs
To make connections between ideas and their own thinking and experiences

Science

KEY SKILLS

To work scientifically, observing closely, performing tests, identifying and classifying, recording findings
To investigate Life Processes and Living Things
To investigate Materials and their Properties
To investigate Physical Processes

Wellbeing - Relationships, PSHE, Physical & Mental Health

KEY SKILLS

To understand, and value, families and other relationships, inc. those online
To know how to keep safe, including whilst online
To develop an understanding of money and enterprise
To develop skills and behaviours around living in the wider world as responsible citizens
To understand the importance of mental wellbeing
To understand the importance of physical health, including fitness, diet, and sleep (and know facts and risks associated with drugs, alcohol and tobacco)
To develop skills in First Aid, and understand how the body changes during adolescence