Our Curriculum
The Curriculum at St Andrew's
The curriculum is everything that we intend children to learn. This has been carefully mapped out so that children experience a coherent, well-sequenced curriculum that builds on what they have been taught, know and can do.
It has been designed to equip children with the knowledge, attitudes and dispositions they need to acquire key skills and conceptual understanding in a range of subjects.
The school curriculum is split into three key stages and has been designed in a way that new learning always builds on what has already been taught. The three stages are Early Years (Reception), Key Stage 1 (Year 1 and Year 2) and Key Stage 2 ( Years 3,4,5 and 6)
Children are taught the knowledge they need to know through inquiry, discussion and carefully sequence activities and experiences planned by the class teacher. All the subjects we teach at this school are planned and delivered in a similar way to ensure that learning is cumulative and builds on what children have already been taught.
The school provides a broad, balanced, creative curriculum, which endeavours to extend the children's knowledge of themselves and the world in which they live. We aim to help children acquire increasing competence through the development of concepts, skills and attitudes and to enable them to develop their own self-confidence and relate happily to others.
The first years of school are the foundation of your child's education. In September 2014, an updated National Curriculum was introduced. The subjects of study are English, Maths, Science, Design & Technology, Computing, History, Geography, Religious Education, Art and Design, Music and Physical Education. Personal, Social, Health and Economic (PSHE) education became a statutory subject from 2020.
At this stage, many of these subjects are integrated and taught through themes or topics to ensure engaging, meaningful learning opportunities. Themes also include opportunities to learn outside of the classroom where possible, looking to use children's natural curiosity, encouraging them to think critically and develops a scientific approach to problem solving.
As part of their learning, children will make visits to other environments; museums, workplaces, theatres etc. Visitors to the school such as storytellers, artists, musicians etc. will share their expertise in a particular field with the children and all these direct experiences will help to make the children's learning stimulating and relevant.
Key Stage 1
Our Reception Curriculum is ambitious and designed so that children have every opportunity to be ready for the Key Stage 1 curriculum. Key Stage 1 is the first key stage of primary school, a phase of education for 5-7-year-old children in England.
Key Stage 2
When children complete Key Stage 1, they embark on the Key Stage 2 curriculum (Years 3-6)
The National Curriculum
Our school curriculum includes the programmes of study outlined in the National Curriculum and forms part of our wider school curriculum.
The National Curriculum specifies what children will learn from Year 1 onwards in the following subjects:
- Literacy
- Mathematics
- Science
- Art
- Design and technology
- Computing
- Music
- History
- Geography
- Physical Education
- A Modern Foreign Language
We use an accredited Systematic Synthetic Phonics Programme to teach early reading. The programme we use at this school is Little Wandle.
Our Curricular Plans
We have adapted a consistent approach to curricular planning across the school to ensure all learning is cumulative and builds on prior learning. We have included a number of links below so that you can see our curriculum and understand what children will learn as they progress through the school.
The following term by term overviews provide a summary of the content taught across the year in each subject. We are currently on Cycle A of a three year cycle.
We have also included links to show curricular progression. These are grouped into subjects that have progression through key inquiry questions and those through knowledge progression statements.
Reception Curriculum
Reception LTP 2024- 2025.docx (1).pdfTerm by Term Overview
Maple Class - Cycle A - 2024-2025.docx.pdfChestnut Class - Cycle A - 2024-2025.docx.pdfJuniper Class - Cycle A - 2024-2025.docx.pdfSycamore Class - Cycle A - 2024-2025.docx (1).pdfEnglish Overview
English Overview Year A.docx.pdfPhonics - Little Wandle
Programme-Overview_Reception-and-Year-1-1.pdfMathematics - White Rose
Mathematics (Early Years)
Reception curriculum mapping.pdfMathematics (Year 1 - 6)
Maths Progression Ready to Progress.pdfSubject Progression
Science - Cycle A - 2024-2025 (1).pdfART Subject Overview - Cycle A - 2024-2025.pdfPE Subject Overview - Cycle A - 2024-25 (1).pdfPSHE Overview - Cycle A - 2024-2025 (1).pdfGeography Subject Overview - Cycle A - 2024-2025.pdfDT Subject Overview - Cycle A - 2024-2025.pdf