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Curriculum
Our Curriculum
At St. Andrew’s CE Infant School we aim to provide our children with a curriculum which is engaging, practical, relevant and promotes oracy (both spoken and written) and also enables children to acquire important factual knowledge alongside important skills for life-long learning. We deliver this exciting curriculum through 'Cornerstones Projects'. These projects are cross-curricular, meaning that the children can reapply knowledge and skills across different subject areas.
Our termly Layered Learning Maps
The teaching of Religious Education
Religious Education follows the content of the Coventry and Warwickshire Agreed Syllabus for RE (2024). This syllabus encourages children to develop a world views approach to the exploration of faith. In order to ensure appropriate coverage of this agreed syllabus we follow the lesson plans contained within the ‘Understanding Christianity’ scheme of work when teaching about Christianity and the lesson plans contained within the ‘Units of work for Coventry and Warwickshire Agreed Syllabus’ for the teaching of all other aspects of RE. Understanding of Christianity units of work are 'blocked' across a whole week each term to coincide with key times in the Christian year such as Christmas and Easter. All other aspects of the RE curriculum are taught weekly 60 minute lessons.
The teaching of PE
Our Key Stage 1 children have two 45 minute lessons of taught PE per week, delivered by the class teacher (with the support of a qualified PE and School sport coach). The lessons are delivered using the ‘Primary PE Planning’ scheme. Four units of work are taught each term. The units encourage the child to develop their physical skills alongside their knowledge of how their bodies work and how to stay fit and healthy.
Children in Reception have planned physical activity throughout the day during 'get Learning' time. These activities enable the children to develop gross motor skills and basic skill such as catching and throwing. Weekly time tabled PE lessons also take place.
The teaching of PSHE
Personal, Social & Health Education is delivered using the 'Kapow' scheme of work.
In EYFS our children explore the following:
- Self Regulation: My Feelings
- Building Relationships: Special Relationships
- Managing self: Taking on Challenges
- Self Regulation: Listening and Following Instructions
- Building relationships: My Family and Friends
- Managing Self: My Well-Being
In Year 1 our children explore the following:
- My Healthy Self: How can we look after our emotions?
- Connecting With Others: How can I help myself and others feel happy and safe?
- The On-line World: How do we spend time online?
- Citizenship: How can I help others and the environment?
- Health Protection: How can I protect myself and others in daily life?
- Staying Safe: How can I stay safe?
In Year 2 our children explore the following:
- My Healthy Self: How can we look after our bodies?
- Connecting With Others: How can I build safe, kind and caring relationships with others?
- The Online World: How can we stay safe online?
- Citizenship: How do people belong to a community and earn money?
- Growing up: How can we look after and respect our bodies as we grow?
- Staying safe: How can I make safe choices in different places?
The teaching of mathematics
Mathematics Mastery (Ark Curriculum) scheme of work is used to support teachers in their delivery of a daily mathematics lesson. The scheme recognises that in order for children to become confident mathematicians, they must have opportunity to deepen their mathematical understanding by:
- explaining, creating problems, justifying and proving using mathematical language (Language & Communication)
- representing concepts using objects and pictures and, more abstractly, with words and symbols (Conceptual Understanding)
giving an example, by sorting or comparing, or by looking for patterns and rules in the representations they are exploring problems with (Mathematical Thinking)
The lessons have a six part structure:
- 'Do Now' - opportunity to recall previous learning and develop mathematical fluency
- 'New Learning' - where new mathematical concepts and vocabulary are introduced through adult modelling
- 'Talk Task' -where children begin to explore the new mathematical concept through partner work
- 'Develop Learning' - where children have time to deepen their understanding of this new learning
- 'Independent Task' - where children practice their new learning, including through the completion of a task sheet
- 'Plenary'- where children reflect on their learning and misconceptions are addressed.
Daily Maths meetings (15 minutes) also take place in each class. These meetings provide children with an additional opportunity to practice their accurate use of mathematical language and the recall of previous learning (fluency).
The teaching of English
We deliver the English curriculum in the following ways:
- Reading and phonics are taught using 'Little Wandle (Revised). Children in Reception and Year 1 have daily phonics lessons taught by their class teacher. All children have reading practice sessions three times per week when trained staff help them to develop their reading accuracy, fluency and prosody.
- Handwriting – through 20 minute sessions delivered at least 3 times per week following the ‘Letter-Join’ handwriting scheme of work.
- Spelling lessons are delivered to our Year 2 children using Little Wandle Spelling.
Children in all year groups reapply their phonic, handwriting and spelling skills throughout their Cornerstones Projects which provide them with lots of opportunities for purposeful writing.
Little Wandle Phonics
Resources and useful video clips for Little Wandle can be found by clicking on the following link: