The Curriculum

Part 2 - The Curriculum

The Purpose and Aims of the School

“Tomorrow Today” (E.P. School Council Mission Statement 2007) The Purpose of Edward Peake C of E (V.C.) Middle School: To ensure through the promotion of Christian values and the Every Child Matters Agenda that all children experience a quality of care and consideration within a safe community that enables them to develop their sense of personal worth and identity as a citizen. To ensure that all children experience a quality curriculum, at both Key Stages, which is relative to their needs and of sufficient breadth and depth to enable them to make the best use of their talents and abilities in whatever field of expertise to which they may aspire.

(Adopted by the Governing Body: May 2008)

In order to better achieve our purpose the school has identified these Aims: To create a caring and stimulating environment in which all individuals are valued and where success is celebrated To offer a broad, balanced and challenging curriculum for all pupils To foster a sense of responsibility through mutual respect and effective discipline To set high personal standards and pursue the fulfilment of individual potential To achieve measurable improvement in all aspects of school life To work in partnership with families, the church and the local community The Development of the Aims In order to create a caring and stimulating environment in which all individuals are valued and where success is celebrated the school will work to: * listen to needs of children * ensure quality of care * take positive action against bullying * foster a sense of community and belonging * celebrate success In order to offer a broad, balanced and challenging curriculum for all pupils the school will: * review the curriculum to ensure relevancy * ensure access to all areas of the curriculum for all pupils In order to foster a sense of responsibility through mutual respect and effective discipline the school will: * promote high quality classroom management * plan independent work and opportunities for pupils to take responsibilities for their work and for others into their experience To set high personal standards and pursue the fulfilment of individual potential the school pursue programmes for:

* differentiation and personalisation * quality provision for special needs * provision for ‘booster’ intervention * the development of the gifted and talented To achieve measurable improvement in all aspects of school life the school will enhance its work through: * sharing of goals and learning outcomes * use of Assessment for Learning * curriculum analysis * target setting where appropriate To work in partnership with families and the local community the school will seek to * promote and value citizenship * learn from its stakeholders their needs and, where appropriate, seek to meet them

The Sch ool Imp rove ment Plan To achieve these aims, the school and the governors write and maintain a School Improvement Plan to assist the school to focus on the raising achievement agenda. Following our successful inspection by OfSTED in June 2007 we were pleased to realise that all three of the action points suggested by the inspectors as ways to move the school forward were already contained in the draft for this year’s plan. These, therefore, are the whole school issues from the new development plan: The six main objectives for the school have been agreed by staff and governors to be the following.

A] To improve standards across the curriculum at both Key Stages. * Improving primary practice * Improving secondary practice Including recommendations from OfSTED report

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* Build on recent improvements to improve standards in English, mathematics and science, at Key Stage 2. * Share best practice in teaching and assessment for learning so that pupils consistently levels across all subjects and how to improve further. * Develop academic monitoring further by maximising the role of tutors in this respect.

B] To develop the ‘distinctive Christian character’ of our school. Including recommendations from inspection by the Diocese of St Albans

C] To proceed with the further development of ‘assessment for learning’. A continuing whole-school focus

D] To move rapidly towards becoming an ‘e-confident’ school.

i.e.: develop the school’s capacity to work with and through ICT and work to the introduction of the learning platform for staff, pupils and parents.

E] To further develop community and parental links. F] To achieve ‘Healthy School’ status.

What we teach To help parents in giving guidance to their children as well as in planning family outings, these brief outlines of our curriculum have been prepared.

Year 5 Curriculum Outline Subject Art

Design Technology English Literacy

Autumn Basic drawing and painting skills Paul Klee – different mediums Repeating patterns using stencils Safety, hygiene, basic equipment. Food groups, hot and cold snacks, Jigsaw masks. Narrative, instructions, persuasion, myths and legends, stories and fables.

Spring

Summer

Clay work Painting Skills – a sense of depth Illustration and natural pattern Analysing an Art Work Textiles- making money containers,

Still Life Printing Mixed Media Australian Aboriginal Abstraction Smoothies, kebabs, pizza.

Report writing, poetry, recount, stories from other countries.

Narrative poetry, choral and performance poetry, older literature, persuasion, film study.

French

Introduction to France, numbers 1 to 10, greetings, myself, animals, equipment for school.

Subjects, using general phrases in the classroom, hobbies.

Places in the town, what you do at the weekend, connectives, the family

Geography

Map skills

Settlements

Water

History

Ancient Greece

Ancient Greece/ Victorians

Victorians

ICT

Graphical modelling Touch typing Word processing

Computer control Touch Typing

Introduction to spreadsheets. Touch typing

Music

Song accompaniments. Improvising and composing to word rhythms/”Clock” pieces. Beat, Time, Rhythm (including notation) and Percussion Instruments.

Pitched Percussion pieces and pitch notation. Soundscapes and Graphic Notation. Steve Reich – extended listening and performing.

Chinese Music. Chords.

Numeracy

Mental strategies, place value (including decimals) problem solving, multiplication tables, addition and subtraction, multiplication and division, use of the calculator, factors, rounding, fractions and decimals, measurement including length, mass and capacity, graphs, reading of scales, co-ordinates, and…. In the Autumn Term: Doubling and In the Spring Term: Percentages, In the Summer Term: Sequences in halving, rectangles and triangles, patterns in numbers, 2D and 3D number, 2D and 3D shapes, drawing reading of scales, time, shapes. shapes, symmetry, collecting and nets, probability, converting organising data, probability, drawing measures, reading timetables, 24 and measuring angles, perimeter and hour time, perimeter and area, area, sequences. symmetry, ratio and proportion, percentages. Netball, football, gym and dance. Hockey, rugby, gym and dance. Rounders, cricket, athletics, tennis. Outdoor adventure New Beginnings, Friendships Refugees, respecting others Keeping ourselves safe, Health and hygiene.

PE PSHCE RE

The Earth

Leaders – why do some people inspire others?

Worship - what does it mean?

Science

Safety in the Lab Keeping Healthy

Changing state Gases

Life cycles Circuits

The Earth, sun and moon Graphs

Changing sounds

Thinking skills

Year 6 Curriculum Outline Subject Art

Autumn Basic drawing and painting skills Paul Klee – different mediums Repeating patterns using stencils

Spring

Summer

Clay work Painting Skills – a sense of depth Illustration and natural pattern Analysing an Art Work Textiles – design and make a puppet.

Still Life Printing Mixed Media Australian Aboriginal Abstraction Healthy eating,

Design Technology

Healthy eating, food groups, low fat, sugar, salt. Increasing fibre. Salads, dairy foods. 3D Silhouettes in paper and wood

English Literacy

Poetry, narrative writing, journalistic writing, reports, argument, formal writing.

Narrative writing, poetry, media, plays, revision programme, ‘mock’ S.A.T. s (January).

Revision, authors and texts, class novel, extended narrative, performance.

French

Family names, ages, descriptions, personality and appearance, using connectives to create longer sentences.

Appearances, hair colour and types, types of house, rooms in a house.

Items of furniture, adjectives and colour, ask and say where things are, drinks, food.

Geography

Mountains

Rivers

St Lucia

History

The Tudors

Exploration

The Aztecs

ICT

Multimedia presentation (family tree)

Greetings card Databases

Music

Keyboard Skills combined with ICT “Drill” software for music notation (Music Ace) including a composition task.

E-mail Travel Poster Stop-motion animation Fanfares Rondo Form

Numeracy

Mental strategies, place value (including decimals) problem solving, multiplication tables, addition and subtraction, multiplication and division, use of the calculator, factors, rounding, fractions, decimals and percentages, measurement including length, mass and capacity, graphs and charts (reading, drawing and interpreting) and…. In the Autumn Term: Ratio and In the Spring Term: Rotation and In the Summer Term: Co-ordinates, proportion, averages, co-ordinates, reflection, angles, 2D and 3D nets of cubes, reflection and scales, translation of shapes, shapes, perimeter and area. translation. number sequences, perimeter, time. Netball, football, gym and dance. Hockey, rugby, gym and dance. Cricket, rounders, athletics, tennis. Outdoor adventure.

PE

Machines Music

PSHCE

Being an active citizen, friendship, bullying.

Drug education, alcohol, smoking, personal safety.

Anxieties, stresses, charity work, puberty.

RE

Symbols

What is it like to be Hindu?

Journeys

Science

Safety in the Lab, Dissolving, Forces, Reactions, Light.

Micro-organisms Inter-dependence and adaptations Practical and investigation skills

Colour, acids and alkalis. Introduction to the Bunsen burner

Year 7 Curriculum Outline In addition to the units below, pupils in Y7 will have a series of non-timetables days for the delivery of personal learning and thinking skills (PLTS). This is our response to the new KS3 strategy. PLTS sessions have been planned for subjects such as Homelessness, Murder most horrid, Global Issues and Designing an Entertainment Complex. Subject Art

Autumn

Spring

Summer

Basic drawing and painting skills Andy Warhol Portraits Illustration – Field Guides Product design. Fruit and vegetable cookery, rubbed in mixtures. Structures and mechanisms.

Painting Skills – a sense of depth Clay work – African masks Printing Textiles – use of sewing machine, making placemats. Research, sketching and drawing – designing and making siege engines.

Still Life Pop Art – mixed media Analysing an Art Work Multi cultural cooking. Land yachts

English

Fiction genre, Skellig, Blake’s poetry, discussion texts.

What’s in the news? Ballads and narrative poetry.

Playscript and film, non-fiction writing, drama, Macbeth study.

French

Drinks, food items, quantities and packaging, asking how much something costs.

The body, what’s good and bad about your health, sports and activities.

Plans for the weekend, times, the town, activities in the town.

Geography

Map skills

Flooding, rivers

History

Medieval Realms, Norman conquest, daily life, the Church, Becket.

Crusades, castles, Wales/Scotland

Settlements, shopping patterns Football / Fashion Black death, peasants revolt and King John, Magna Carta.

ICT

Modelling (using Excel)

Editing audio and video clips

Text and graphics, producing a leaflet.

Mathematics

Algebra, fractions and decimals, positive and negative numbers, problem solving, length, area and perimeter, 2D and 3D shapes, volumes of cuboids, mode, median, mean and range, probability.

Lines and angles, co-ordinates, addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, problem solving, measurements, collecting data, tally charts and grouped frequencies, types of number, graphs, construction of shapes, percentages, ratio and proportion.

Line and rotational symmetry, reflections, rotations and translations, decimals and fractions, using calculators, percentages, solving algebraic equations, tessellation, construction of 3D shapes, polygons, pie charts, statistical survey, probability.

Music

Caribbean Music/Chords. Harmony. Rhythm patterns. Singing Working with Melodic Phrases. Performing and composing melodies [aaba]. Introducing technical terms through listening to structured melodies (New World)

Major and Minor -Carmen -Waters of Zion Harmony. Vocal Music. Structuring through rounds, canons, sequence, largescale forms like verse and chorus.

Advertising. TV Tunes (in Swing style). Matching mood Musical arrangements

PE

Football, netball, gym, dance

Basketball, volleyball, rugby, cross country, hockey.

Cricket, rounders, athletics, tennis

PSHCE

“Learning to Learn” Young People and the Law

Drug education- illegal drugs SRE

Local Government Careers

RE

What is it like to be a Sikh? A comparison of Sikhism and Christianity.

Who made my jeans? Animals – how should they be treated?

What is it like to be Muslim?

Science

Tissues and transplants The solar system and beyond

Particle theory Variation and classification

Energy and sustainable living Materials from the Earth

Design Technology

Reproduction Chemical reactions

Forces and their effects Gravity Circuits

Ecological matters

Year 8 Curriculum Outline Subject

Autumn

Spring

Summer

Art

Basic drawing and painting skills Andy Warhol Portraits Illustration – Field Guides

Design Technology

High fibre/low fat recipes, pasta dishes, potatoes. Biscuits and cake making. Smart materials and their properties.

English

Non-fiction text types, gothic horror.

War poetry, Novels: ‘The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas’ or ‘Holes’.

Revision and transfer tests, the Titanic, media unit, ‘Romeo and Juliet’.

French

The weather, describe how people live, the time, countries, clothing.

Clothes, TV programmes, time, going out

Organise a meeting, past perfect tense, contrast past and present, costs, useful phrases.

Geography

Weather patterns over Europe

Tropical Rainforests Industry and farming

History

The Tudors Religious Changes The Stuarts, Catholic plots Public information systems.

The Civil War Superstition and Scientific Changes Web design

Weathering and erosion Environmental issues – global warming Black people of the Americas The Slave Trade Civil Rights Game authoring

Mathematics

Negative numbers, powers and roots, sequences, factors, problem solving, angle, triangles and quadrilaterals, geometric proof, construction, probability, fractions and decimals, percentages, algebra, area of shape, volume.

Drawing graphs from functions, gradients, powers of 10, decimals, transformation, enlargements, ratio, solving equations, creating algebraic expressions, stem and leaf diagrams, pie charts, scatter graphs.

Fractions and decimals, problem solving using algebra, logic and problems, proportion, ratio, construction equations, solving equations, frequency tables and diagrams, comparing data, averages, probability.

Music

Variations Black Music: Spirituals Jazz in the classroom Jazz Improvising

Ragtime Gamelan

MICROLOGIC / ”Gigajam” Song-writing Hooks and Riffs “Walking on the Moon”

PE

Football, netball, gym, dance

Rugby, hockey, cross country, health-related exercise, basketball.

Rounders, cricket, athletics, tennis

PSHCE

Learning to be together Watch over me - personal safety

Drug education, alcohol SRE

Britain a diverse society British government.

RE

Is war just? What happens when I die?

Jesus – who is he? Martin Luther King

Science

Food and digestion, atoms and elements, light, compounds and mixtures. Thinking skills

Who made my jeans? Animals – how should they be treated? Respiration, sound and hearing, microbes and disease, graphs.

ICT

Painting Skills – a sense of depth Clay work – African masks Printing

Still Life Pop Art – mixed media Analysing an Art Work Stratton Bridging Project Textiles tie and dye and batik. Make cushions using embellishment techniques. Mass production process, injection moulding and vacuum forming. Boat topic.

Rocks and the rock cycle, ecological relationships, heating and cooling.