Horton Curriculum Provision.
Our aim is to provide a well-structured, engaging curriculum that enhances children’s awareness of the world and their place within it, providing them with the skills & knowledge to thrive in learning and life.
Our Horton Curriculum has been developed with the whole school community. After discussions with staff, pupils, governors and parents we agreed a focus upon two key themes:
· Global Citizenship
· Cultural Awareness.
Our children’s priority is to focus upon climate change and to learn what we can do to halt it. Our parents are keen that we continue to focus upon providing our children with the skills and knowledge to thrive in adulthood and responsible citizenship. As a school, we are committed to all children having equality of opportunity both at school and in later life. This means that we need to focus upon core knowledge and ensuring all pupils can access the curriculum. We will do this by a rigorous focus upon language acquisition. Working alongside St. John’s Mead and using the National Curriculum as our basis, we have developed a progression in vocabulary and selected topics that both match appropriate language and provide opportunities for a focus upon our core intent, building on prior learning. History units have been planned to build on children’s knowledge of chronology and children are encouraged to see the patterns in subjects such as geography to promote both their long-term knowledge and cultural understanding.
Follow the links below to download the current curriculum overview and to see areas of study:
Robins
KS1 Curriculum Overview 2019 2020
Swallows
Year 3 and 4 Curriculum Overview 2019 2020
Owls
Year 5 and 6 Curriculum Overview 2019 2020
Use the links below to download the class curriculum letters for this term:
Autumn Term 2020
Robin Class Curriculum Letter Autumn 2020
Swallow Class Curriculum Letter Autumn 2020
Owl Class Curriculum Letter Autumn 2020
Summer Term 2020
Not in School
Spring Term 2020
Robins- Year 1 and 2 Spring Term Curriculum Letter
Swallow Class Spring Curriculum Letter 2020
Owls Spring Term Curriculum Letter 2020
English
The aim for English in the national curriculum is to promote high standards of language and literacy by equipping pupils with a strong command of the spoken and written language, and to develop their love of literature through widespread reading for enjoyment. The national curriculum for English aims to ensure that all pupils:
At Horton, we ensure this is achieved by:
Mathematics
Our Calculation Policy:
Gifted and Talented Addition Beyond Primary
The national curriculum for mathematics aims to ensure that all pupils:
Mathematics is an interconnected subject in which pupils need to be able to move fluently between representations of mathematical ideas. The programmes of study are, by necessity, organised into apparently distinct domains, but pupils should make rich connections across mathematical ideas to develop fluency, mathematical reasoning and competence in solving increasingly sophisticated problems. They should also apply their mathematical knowledge to science and other subjects.
The expectation is that the majority of pupils will move through the programmes of study at broadly the same pace. However, decisions about when to progress should always be based on the security of pupils’ understanding and their readiness to progress to the next stage. Pupils who grasp concepts rapidly should be challenged through being offered rich and sophisticated problems before any acceleration through new content. Those who are not sufficiently fluent with earlier material should consolidate their understanding, including through additional practise, before moving on.
At Horton we ensure that this is achieved through:
Use the links below to find fun ways to help with Maths.
We use the squeebles app and Times Table Rockstars at school to help with multiplication and division. All children are given a Times Table Rockstar Login so that they can access this from home.
www.activityvillage.co.uk/maths-games
www.theschoolrun.com/times-tables
www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/7-11-years/multiplication-and-division
www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/7-11-years/fractions-and-decimals
www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks2/maths/number/fractions_basic/play
We follow the Gloucester scheme of work and use Understanding Christianity.
Our 2 year rolling programme for all classes can be viewed here:
The national curriculum for computing aims to ensure that all pupils:
At Horton, we ensure that this is achieved by: