Curriculum Statement
At Chalgrove Community Primary School, our vision is for every child to achieve their full potential across all areas of the curriculum. We want every child to experience learning in a positive, stimulating and caring environment and we strive to ensure that all children have access to a wide range of opportunities throughout their time at our school. We want children to acquire the knowledge, skills, concepts and attitudes needed for school, and for life, through offering a broad curriculum enriched with exciting opportunities.
We also want children to learn the importance of responsibility and offer opportunities for them to harness this skill in a variety of ways including house captains, sporting opportunities and collaboration with the local community.
Our curriculum has been planned to suit our needs as a school. It is underpinned by Government statutory requirements as set out within the National Curriculum.
We cover the three stages of the National Curriculum:
Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) | Nursey and Reception |
Key Stage One | Year 1 and 2 |
Key Stage Two | Year 3, 4, 5 and 6 |
Our Curriculum
EYFS
Children in our Nursery and Reception classes follow seven areas of learning; three prime and four specific areas. The prime areas are Personal, Social and Emotional Development; Communication and Language and Physical Development. The specific areas are English, Mathematics, Understanding the World and Expressive Arts and Design.
Key Stage One and Two
Children in Years 1 to 6 cover the full range of National Curriculum subjects; English, Mathematics, Science, Computing, History, Geography, RE, PSHCE (Personal, Social, Health and Citizenship Education), Music, MFL (Modern Foreign Languages), Art, Design Technology, PE and Games.
Blocked Teaching
At Chalgrove we teach the following subjects as blocked units; History, Geography, Art and Design, Design Technology and Science. Several hours are blocked each week with the unit being taught over a two to three week period. The rationale for this way of working is to allow children to engage fully with a subject or topic over a concentrated block of time. We strongly believe that children get immersed into the learning, and it allows teachers greater flexibility when planning.
Sport
At Chalgrove we believe in providing a wide range of sporting opportunities both within the school day when delivering the curriculum, and outside of the school day. Our provision may vary year on year but we ensure through careful monitoring that all children across every age range gain access to different sporting opportunities. Children take part in local and national competitions.
Assessment and Monitoring
Children’s work is constantly monitored and assessed through teacher observations, marking, feedback and summative testing. We use teacher assessment to track on-going progress against National Curriculum statements. Attitudes to learning and attainment are shared at parents’ evenings and at the end of the year.
Extending and Enriching our Curriculum
Educational Visits
Within our curriculum, educational visits are of significant importance. We believe that children gain so much from learning outside of the classroom, meeting and working with specialists from a range of different fields. The scope of our educational visits link closely to our curriculum, and where possible we visit locally.
Charity and Community Events
Every year, the school supports a range of charity events including Sports Relief, Children in Need and many more. Our house captains support these events. We see these events as an important part of our annual calendar. We also have close links with our local church, St Marys, and together we host and attend Harvest, Easter and Christmas celebrations. We also work with our local doctors’ surgery and Age Concern.
After School Clubs
We offer a wide range of after school clubs that are both sports and non-sports based; such as singing, art club, construction club, hockey, football and dance. These are run by teachers or external sports coaches and the provision year on year varies but we ensure through careful monitoring that all children across every age range gain access to different opportunities.
