Curriculum

The Foundation Stage
Since September 2000, the term 'foundation stage' has been used to describe the phase of education from a child's third birthday to the end of the reception year. The early learning goals set out what most children are expected to achieve by the end of the foundation stage. They are 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

By the end of the foundation stage most children will have had at least two terms of full time education in the reception class in addition to their nursery and/or pre-school experience.

Key Stages 1 and 2
All children from 5-11 years old (Key Stage 1, 5 -7 years old; Key Stage 2, 7-11years old) follow the National Curriculum, and this is made up of 3 core subjects and 7 foundation subjects:

Core

• English
• Maths
• Science

Foundation

• Information Communication Technology
• Design Technology
• History
• Geography
• Art
• Music
• PE

Schools must also provide Religious Education for all registered pupils, although parents can choose to withdraw their children. The children are taught RE according to the locally agreed syllabus 'Mystery and Meaning'.

The school curriculum aims to provide opportunities for all pupils to learn and to achieve. It also aims to promote pupils' spiritual, moral, social and cultural development and prepares all pupils for the opportunities, responsibilities and experiences of life.

At all key stages, pupils learn, practise, combine, develop and refine a wide number of skills in their work across the National Curriculum. Some of these skills are subject specific and some are common to several subjects. Some skills are universal, for example the skills of communication, improving own learning and performance and creative thinking. These skills are embedded in the National Curriculum and are essential to effective learning.

Six skill areas are described as key skills because they help pupils to improve their learning and performance in education, work and life.
These six key skills are:

• Communication
• Application of number
• Information technology
• Working with others
• Improving own learning
• Performance and problem solving
  

Using the Computers

A Music Lesson

Researching using the Interactive Whiteboard