Curriculum Gallery
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Curriculum Overview
Curriculum Overview
Here at The Meadows Primary School and Resource Base, we believe that our curriculum empowers children to become active participants within their learning. Our aim is promote curiosity, develop critical thinking and enable children to make connections and transfer skills/ knowledge into their everyday lives both within and outside of school.
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EYFS
EYFS
Reception children follow a programme designed to help them achieve what are known as the 'Early Learning Goals'. These are targets that most children are expected to achieve by the time they leave the reception class and will provide a firm foundation for National Curriculum work in Year 1.
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English
English
At The Meadows, we believe that a robust understanding of the English curriculum will enable our children to become confident, successful members of society. From Reception upwards, we strive to embed an ambitious, progressive curriculum that equips children with strategies which enable them to succeed. We aim for all learners to make excellent progress, no matter what their starting point, so that they leave at the end of Year Six prepared for the next step in their education. Skills in reading, writing, speaking and listening, spelling and presentation are utilised throughout the curriculum as well as in discrete subject lessons.
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Mathematics
Mathematics
At The Meadows Primary School, we believe that everyone is capable of learning maths. We have been on our mastery journey for approximately six years now and strive to equip the children with the skills of Fluency, Problem Solving and Reasoning.
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Phonics
Phonics
At the Meadows, a huge emphasis is placed on phonics in Key Stage 1 in order to improve, reading, writing and spelling.
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Science
Science
At The Meadows Primary School, all of our teaching and learning builds on our core values; Aspiration, Equality, Respect, Resilience, Integrity. We recognise the importance of Science in every aspect of daily life; we encourage children to be inquisitive throughout their time at our school and beyond.
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Art and Design
Art and Design
At the Meadows Primary School we recognise that Art and Design stimulates creativity and imagination. It enables children of all abilities to communicate what they see, feel and think of the world around them. Through a balanced approach of techniques we offer a structured and sequenced set of lessons to help teachers ensure they have covered the knowledge and skills required to meet the aims of the national curriculum.
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Design and Technology
Design and Technology
Design and Technology at The Meadows is taught through the investigation, design and make process that identifies a product that has a purpose and a user. Pupils decide on the form their product will take, how their product will work, what task or tasks it will perform and who the product will be for.
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Geography
Geography
At The Meadows we shape our geography curriculum to ensure it is fully inclusive to every child. Our aims are to fulfil the requirements of the National Curriculum for Geography; providing a broad, balanced and differentiated curriculum; ensuring the progressive development of geographical concepts, knowledge and skills; and for the children to develop a ‘love for geography’.
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History
History
At The Meadows Primary School, all our teaching and learning builds on our core values; Aspiration, Equality, Respect, Resilience, Integrity. We want our children to be inspired and intrigued about the past. We encourage children to think and act like historians through the teaching of local, national and world history which is relevant to our pupils.
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Physical Education
Physical Education
At The Meadows Primary School and Resource Base, we believe that a high-quality Physical Education (PE) curriculum inspires all pupils to succeed and excel in competitive sport and other physically-demanding activities. It should provide opportunities for pupils to become physically confident in a way which supports their health and fitness. Opportunities to compete in sport and other activities build character and help to embed values such as fairness and respect. Our aim is to ensure all children enjoy and are engaged in PE and sport.
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Computing
Computing
At The Meadows Primary School and Resource Base, we aim to prepare our learners for their future by giving them the opportunities to gain knowledge and develop skills that will equip them for an ever-changing digital world. Knowledge and understanding of ICT is of increasing importance for children's future both at home and for employment.
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French
French
At The Meadows Primary School, we intend for all children to develop positive attitudes towards other languages and cultures. This interest should be encouraged by delivering weekly stimulating lessons which build children's confidence and promote the skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing.
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Music
Music
At The Meadows Primary School and Resource Base, music is taught throughout the school as a class subject using the Kapow music. Our aim is to develop each child's musical potential, giving opportunities for self-expression and creativity.
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Religious Studies
Religious Studies
At The Meadows, we endeavour to create kind, caring and empathetic learners through our teaching of RE. By teaching about different beliefs and faiths, we aim to promote healthy discussions and debate in order the deepen children's understanding of themselves, their peers and the world around them.
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PSHE
PSHE
At The Meadows Primary School, PSHE is at the core of what we do and enables our children to become independent, confident, healthy and responsible members of society, as well as developing the “whole child” intellectually, morally, socially and spiritually. Through our whole-school approach to PSHE, it is our belief that excellence in these areas will lead to excellence across the curriculum and beyond in later life.
At The Meadows Primary School, our curriculum is intended to develop and nurture our children towards academic and social success, increasing their self-belief and aspirations to make a positive difference. We aim to cultivate a continuing passion for learning to accompany our children through every stage of their education and adult life. We endeavour to do this by creating a curriculum that provides a stimulating environment, engaging the children and presenting opportunities to enhance their independent learning and research skills. Through a carefully constructed curriculum, which is practical and explorative, we aim to make this an enjoyable experience for all involved. We strive for our children to continually extend their knowledge, starting within their own community and widening out to the world beyond, to enable them to have a greater understanding of their own sense of place and identity within this.
We intend that the curriculum allows our children to experience the challenge that they need in order to continue to develop their resilience for learning and their resilience for life. We aim to provide them with experiences and skills that are relevant to them for their everyday life as well as offering them cultural experiences, which may otherwise not be available to them, thus igniting their imagination and creativity.
We aim for our curriculum to be fully inclusive for all pupils, with respect for themselves and for others at the very centre of it. It is our intention for the children to embrace differences within our community and the wider world, and empathise with others whose lives may be different.
Through the implementation of the above curriculum, we want the children at The Meadows to be equipped with a sound body of knowledge that they are able to recall; the skills to be resilient young people, who are independent learners with ambitious aspirations; and for them to be comfortable, confident and happy within themselves leading to their future success and well-being.
To find our more about the curriculum, please contact Mrs Grainger Assistant Head Teacher/Curriculum Lead.