THORPE PRIMARY SCHOOL MENU CLOSE HOMESCHOOL INFORMATION THE CURRICULUM Curriculum Intent Underpinning the curriculum at Thorpe Primary School are the shared PKAT goals and principles. PKAT Goals Striving to unlock children’s passion to succeed in their school career and beyond; Building together strong foundations to acquire the key skills for life-long learning; and the resilience and courage to apply them; Designing and delivering an innovative and stimulating 4-19 curriculum; Challenging, supporting and investing in our staff to create an outstanding workforce; Creating an inclusive learning community where safeguarding, well-being, respect and aspiration for all are paramount. PKAT Principles Leadership All young people and adults make a positive and exciting contribution to the life of the school and local community through the development of leadership skills. Relationships Being different, belonging together. Responsibility Responsibility we have for ourselves and each other and for making a positive impact in our school, the local community and as a global citizen. Courage/Resilience/Determination Having the courage and resilience to take risks with our learning to achieve beyond our expectations, and having the determination to succeed. Dreams and Aspiration Broadening the awareness of opportunity for all young people, enriching their experiences and supporting their pathways to their dreams and aspirations. Pursuit of Excellence and Celebrating Success Relentlessly pursuing school improvement, challenging and supporting regardless of starting points and celebrating individual success, achievement and progress within the school and the wider community. In addition, at Thorpe our curriculum is underpinned by our three core values: Challenge, Inspire, Succeed At Thorpe Primary School, our intent is to ensure every child has every opportunity to succeed, so that they are the best version of themselves when they leave us. Pupil achievement is at the heart of all that we do, and we aim to create a sense of resilience, independence and resourcefulness in all children. We value the diversity of our school intake, with around 80% of our children from ethnic minority communities, 60% of whom speak English as an additional language as indicated by parents. There are 36 languages spoken in school (Census October 2019), the top being Panjabi, English and Urdu. Significant numbers of children travel from out of catchment to school, 50% in 2016/17. Over half of our children come from areas of significant deprivation (Central and Ravensthorpe Wards). We ensure our curriculum takes into account this diversity and the wide range of learning needs. Our curriculum uses the National Curriculum as its foundation. In line with this, our ‘broad and balanced’ curriculum has been carefully chosen and organised to ensure children can build on their knowledge year-on-year. We intend our curriculum to provide children with opportunities to increase their knowledge across a range of subjects and experiences; embedding key Literacy and Numeracy skills; nurturing talent in arts and sports; utilising the outdoor environment to foster collaborative and adventurous learning; creating Scientists, Historians, Geographers, Musicians, Philosophers, Designers, Performers, Computer programmers; creating children who are ready to be successful citizens of 21st Century Britain. We will also ensure our curriculum ‘promotes the spiritual, moral, cultural, mental and physical development of pupils at the school and of society’ (National Curriculum 2014). We recognise reading as a vital skill that will support children’s learning across the whole curriculum. We ensure that our pupils are taught to read with fluency, accuracy and understanding through a variety of discreet and cross-curricular learning opportunities. Above all, we want our children to become enthusiastic, independent and reflective readers. How is our Curriculum implemented? Through our detailed curriculum strategy we will: Map out the knowledge we think children should know in each subject in the curriculum via the use of progression maps; Identify key vocabulary we think children should know in each subject in the curriculum and incorporate this into progression maps. This, in turn, will increase reading comprehension, ensuring children build up extended specialist vocabulary; Put oracy and opportunities to develop communication skills at the heart of our lessons; Develop coherent threads throughout the curriculum, ensuring children have repeated exposure to abstract concepts in different contexts to ensure long term remembering; Build research into learning for long term memory into our model through the use of Knowledge Organisers and regular low stakes quizzes; Create a planned, cumulative and progressive model which meets the needs of our children, allowing us to be confident in making judgements about children’s attainment and progress in any subject. We use the rationale that if a child has learnt and kept pace with what our subject expectations are, taking into account their prior attainment and any specific contexts, then they have made good progress; Foster a love of reading and improve reading comprehension skills through development of knowledge, modelling of reading for enjoyment by adults and provision of whole class reading resources which complement and reinforce learning from other subjects, whilst providing rich sources for writing opportunities. The structured approach of ‘Destination Reader’ will be used to support the teaching of to help develop a deeper understanding of what’s being read and to actively engender a love of reading which will endure throughout children’s lives; Within mathematics, develop the core elements of fluency, problem-solving, reasoning and conceptual understanding, through the teaching of a mastery curriculum which challenges all and supports when appropriate. Core skills will be revisited and embedded; Ensure scientific knowledge is developed and enquiry fostered through planned, progressive units of work. Science Bug will be used to support planning an exciting hands-on science programme to spark imagination, fuel curiosity and nurture confident young scientists. Pupils’ Wellbeing We understand that every child deserves an education that not only prepares them academically for the future, but equips them emotionally for the challenges they will face outside the classroom and for the world they will enter when they leave our care. PSHE comment… In recognising the development of the whole child, the pastoral support given to children so they can access the curriculum is strong. The work of two Family Liaison leads, a Learning Support Mentor, a SEND TA and a trained Forest School practitioner supports vulnerable pupils to access their learning and curriculum entitlement. Curriculum Enrichment To ensure our vision becomes reality, we also intend to provide every child with a breadth of additional opportunities: Educational visits in every year group, from Nursery; Enrichment of the curriculum through visitors; Residential visits (Year 5 and Year 6); Option to learn a musical instrument as an extra-curricular activity; A wide range of sports events, both for participation and competition; A chance to perform in drama productions and a choir; In KS2, opportunities to visit 4 places of worship; Annual fundraising events; Topic immersion days. 2021 – 2022 Recovery Curriculum During this academic year, we must continue to support all of our pupils after a very unsettled 18 months due to the Corona Virus pandemic. Our attention must continue as much towards helping children come back to the school routine and supporting their mental health, as it necessitates considering the formal curriculum. Our ‘recovery curriculum’ needs to balance how to learn best with what to learn. This is summarised from the work of Barry Carpenter, taken from his Recovery Curriculum model: Returning to school is vital for children’s education and for their well-being. Time out of school is detrimental for children’s cognitive and academic development, particularly for disadvantaged children. This impact can affect both current levels of learning and children’s future ability to learn, and therefore we need to ensure all pupils can return to school sooner rather than later. Guidance for full opening: schools (DfE, 02 July 2020) There is a Recovery Curriculum in place which addresses not only the gaps in academic attainment, but also focuses on children's health and mental well-being. Research places emphasis on acknowledging the losses which they will have encountered during the COVID lockdown: loss of routine, structure, friendship, opportunity and freedom, which can trigger responses of anxiety, trauma and bereavement. With this at the heart of our response, the Recovery Curriculum has been designed to address the following principles: Mental health and well-being support; Physical health and well-being support; Enjoy and achieve; Supporting our parents and community. A. MENTAL HEALTH AND WELL-BEING SUPPORT B. PHYSICAL HEALTH AND WELL-BEING SUPPORT C. ENJOY AND ACHIEVE D. SUPPORT OUR PARENTS AND COMMUNITY Reviewed September 2021 THE INTENT OF THE SUBJECTS THAT WE TEACH ARE AS FOLLOWS: PRIMARY STRATEGY FOR LITERACY Phonics delivered daily in Reception and Year 1 following the Read, Write, Inc Programme. Develop a love of reading and fluent readers through books that link with the phonics scheme, the Oxford Reading Tree scheme, inspiring texts as part of the Destination Reader lessons across Years 2 to 6. PRIMARY STRATEGY FOR MATHEMATICS following the Power Maths scheme that embeds mathematical understanding through the use of concrete resources, pictorial representations and abstract application. SCIENCE taught in a cross curricular way making links with Geography, Art, Mathematics investigational and experiential science is a high focus – interpreting data and drawing conclusions includes physical, biological and environmental sciences e.g. the study of materials, habitats, food chains, our changing world, wildlife protection and growth etc. making links with our wider school environment e.g. pond dipping, growing seeds, and visiting Thorpe Woods COMPUTING cross curricular approach where children use a range of software for data handling, designing, modelling, controlling, presenting and using text, graphics and music very well resourced – computer suite, computers in classrooms, videos, DVD players, digital cameras, CD players, scanners, interactive whiteboards access to email/Internet SEX AND RELATIONSHIP EDUCATION During Year 5 and 6 the children are taught the changes that occur in their own bodies from birth to adulthood including - puberty, the development and birth of a baby as well as sex education, including the range of relationships and emotional changes experienced during development. RELIGIOUS EDUCATION children follow the Peterborough Agreed Syllabus for RE, which uses an enquire based approach visits to local places of worship and speakers of other beliefs make the curriculum meaningful to the children appreciation and respect for the beliefs and faith of others is encouraged through our teaching and learning, as well as our Rights Respecting ethos faiths include Hinduism, Islam, Sikkhism, Christianity, Judaism children are encouraged to play a proactive role in sharing their beliefs and faith, by celebrating festivals in class and whole school assemblies for more information please see this years curriculum map DESIGN AND TECHNOLOGY children learn a range of skills e.g. measuring, cutting, joining, using a range of tools children engage in planning, designing, making and evaluating their own products CT links are made e.g. designing an Eid/Christmas card HISTORY Cross curricular links are made with subjects such as Literacy, Art/Design and Music etc. Local visits, drama days, speakers and museums are a focus of this learning e.g. Tudor day with a dramatist, visit to Peterborough museum for art, World War 2 drama day and Victorian Day Use of secondary sources enriches learning e.g. maps, photographs, diaries and video clips. GEOGRAPHY cross curricular opportunities are made e.g. Science, Mathematics and ICT the use of the local environment makes learning purposeful e.g. our environmental area, Thorpe Woods, River Nene and Barnack village ART AND DESIGN a high profile cross curricular subject making links with design technology, ICT, Mathematics, History and Drama study of famous artists work use of a variety of media e.g. pastels, clay, collage, Mod Roc and fabric paint application of skills e.g. drawing, painting, modelling MUSIC children have first hand experiences using pitched and non pitched instruments specialist musicians offer taught lessons in a range of instruments including guitar, recorder, keyboards and flute children learn to sing and compose using nursery rhymes, chants, sounds, songs from different cultures, developing their own music and songs, setting poetry to mood music. PHYSICAL EDUCATION specialist coach provision for all Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2 children for 1 hour per week. at least 2 hours of PE for all children each week extended opportunities after school hours TOPS sport programme swimming, dance, athletics, outdoor and indoor games, gymnastics, short tennis. P.E. LESSONS On P.E. days during the Autumn term children will need to come to school in their P.E. kit as there will not be an opportunity to get changed at school. As a reminder, jewellery should not be worn. If your child has stud earrings, they will be covered with tape. Year P.E. Day P.E. Day R Donaldson Tuesday Friday R Hughes Monday Wednesday 1 Milne Wednesday Thursday 1 Kipling Tuesday Wednesday 1 Potter Tuesday Wednesday 2 Blake Monday Thursday 2 Rosen Monday Friday 3 Walliams Tuesday Thursday 3 Strong Tuesday Thursday 3 Dahl Tuesday Thursday 4 Rowling Monday Thursday 4 Ibbotson Monday Thursday 4 Carroll Monday Wednesday 5 Blackman Monday Friday 5 Morpurgo Wednesday Friday 5 Lewis Monday Wednesday 6 Tolkien Tuesday Thursday 6 Stevenson Thursday Friday 6 Zephaniah Tuesday Friday PSHE/CITIZENSHIP PSHE and Citizenship help to give pupils the knowledge, skills and understanding they need to live confident, healthy, independent lives and helps them become informed, active and responsible citizens in the community and the wider world. Children take part in a wide range of activities across and beyond the curriculum, tackling many of the spiritual, moral, social and cultural issues that are part of growing up. 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