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Curriculum Overviews
Click the links below to find out what your child will be looking at throughout this year. These show brief outlines of the subject areas that will be covered, more detailed information can be found on the subject pages of this website. If you need any more information please do not hesitate to contact the class teacher.
We base our curriculum on the National Curriculum. We adapt this to meet the needs of our pupils.
Please click on the link to view the government website that details the statutory National Curriculum Primary and Secondary Programmes of Study and Attainment Targets. The National Curriculum is to be taught in all maintained primary and secondary schools in England from September 2014.
National Curriculum for September 2014
We also use the guidance from the 'Development Matters' document from the Department for Education to design our curriculum in the Early Years Foundation Stage.
3D Curriculum – promoting long-term memory
At St Andrew’s School, we have ensured that our curriculum has vertical, horizontal and diagonal links across year groups and subjects. Creating links for the children gives them the opportunity to revisit key concepts and topics not only in other subjects but also in subsequent years. This frequent revisiting increases their chance of transferring new information into long term memory.
Horizontal links
Medium term overviews have been created to ensure cross curricular links are made where appropriate between subjects within each year group for either one term or one half-term.
Vertical links
Subject leaders have provided progression documents so that teachers can take account of and build upon specific prior learning within their planning. This allows subjects to be visited in a meaningful way as the children progress through the school.
Diagonal links
Diagonal links are currently being planned across both year groups and subjects. We aim to map out concepts so that the children revisit their knowledge of these concepts in different contexts thus increasing their chance of storing this information in their long-term memory.