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
Curriculum – Long Term Plan
LONG TERM PLAN FOR 2022-23 - UPDATED 25th October! Class overview
These DRAFT documents are undergoing a final edit in September 2022.
National Curriculum Coverage - termly detail Key Stage 1 (Class 2)
National Curriculum Coverage - termly detail Lower Key Stage 2 (Class 3)
National Curriculum Coverage - termly detail Upper Key Stage 2 (Class 4)
Curriculum – Subjects
INTENTThe 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.
Early Learning Goals (Summer 2022)
Statement of Intent - 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
Spirituality Across the Curriculum
KEY VALUES
- Democracy
- The rule of law
- Individual liberty
- Mutual respect
- Tolerance of those of different faiths and beliefs
Britih Values in greater detail
Scope and Sequence
Statement of Intent - Computing
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
Year-End Expectations – Computing 2022
Spirituality Across the Curriculum
Statement of Intent - 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
Spirituality Across the Curriculum
Statement of Intent - Reading
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
Year-End Expectations - Reading 2022
Year-End Expectations - Writing 2022
Spirituality Across the Curriculum
Statement of Intent - Geography
KEY SKILLS
- To investigate patterns and places
- To build understanding of physical geography
- To build understanding of Human Geography
Statement of Intent - 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
Spirituality Across the Curriculum
INTENT
Statement of Intent - Languages
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
Statement of Intent - 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)
Spirituality Across the Curriculum
Statement of Intent - Music
KEY SKILLS
- Performing
- Composing (including notation)
- Appraising
Year-End Expectations – Music
Spirituality Across the Curriculum
KEY SKILLS
- To develop independent study skills
- To develop independent, personal organisation skills
- To work towards school-wide responsibilities
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
Statement of Intent - P.E.
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
Statement of Intent - 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
Year-End Expectations – R.E. 2022
Know and Use Well - Vocabulary Progression – R.E. 2022
Spirituality Across the Curriculum
Statement of Intent - 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
Spirituality Across the Curriculum
INTENT
Statement of Intent - Wellbeing
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
Year-End Expectations – Wellbeing 2022
