The National Curriculum at Fishburn Primary School.
EYFS:
At Fishburn Primary School, pupils in the Pre-School, Nursery and Reception follow the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) curriculum. Our EYFS Curriculum is planned carefully so that all activities and learning promote personal growth and development. We pride ourselves on being fully inclusive in all aspects of our curriculum offer throughout school.
We use the Statutory framework for the early years and foundation stage when planning and assessing our children in EYFS. We also use the non statutory guidance from Development Matters to enhance our EYFS curriculum.
As per the guidelines, our EYFS provision at Fishburn seeks to provide:
- quality and consistency, so that every child makes good progress and no child gets left behind
- a secure foundation through planning for the learning and development of each individual child, and assessing and reviewing what they have learned regularly
- partnership working between practitioners and with parents and/or carers
- equality of opportunity and anti-discriminatory practice, ensuring that every child is included and supported
You can find a ‘parents guide’ on what to expect in EYFS by clicking the link below.
All 2 year olds will have a progress check during their time with us which will be reported to parents as well as an annual report. In addition to this, all children in reception will undergo the Reception Baseline Assessment which will be completed during the first 6 weeks in the Autumn Term 2022.
Please see your child’s class page for further information about the EYFS curriculum and what they will be getting up to each half term.
Key Stage 1 & Key Stage 2:
Pupils in Year One and Year Two follow Key Stage One of the National Curriculum. Pupils in Years Three to Six follow Key Stage Two of the National Curriculum.
The National Curriculum is statutory and sets out the expectations of what must be taught to children in maintained primary schools such as ours. The document is available in school for parents to view, but it is also available online here.
The National Curriculum Subjects which we teach across KS1 and KS2 are as follows:
- Mathematics,
- English,
- Science,
- History,
- Geography,
- Art,
- PE,
- Music,
- Information Technology (Computing)
- Design Technology
- Personal, Social and Health Education (PSHE / RSE) lessons are also taught, together with British Values.
- A Modern Foreign Language (French) is taught as part of the KS2 curriculum from year 3 onwards.
- Religious Education is provided in school within the framework of the Durham Agreed Syllabus for Religious Education. The parents of any child may request that he/she be excused from collective worship or Religious Education lessons. In these instances the child will not be included and alternative provision will be made.
In response to the National Curriculum document linked above, we have carefully planned our own curriculum around the statutory guidance and created a curriculum offer which we are very proud of as it is unique to our school.
You can find our full ‘One Chance’ Curriculum offer on our ‘Curriculum Offer page’ which details our curriculum vision for this academic year.
Our wider curriculum, which encompasses all of the subjects you see above, has been carefully developed so that each year group will be taught all of the content required by the National Curriculum, under an umbrella topic such as ‘Dragons & Castles’ or ‘Splendid Skies’. We believe that this approach ‘hooks’ children into their learning and allows them to make solid connections with their past learning, therefore building up their skills and knowledge over time. This approach we believe also ensures full curriculum coverage across the National Curriculum despite our mixed age range classes and also promotes breadth and depth in our curriculum offer for all of our children.
Please see each class page for further up to date information about what your child will be learning during their time with us.
Statutory Assessment:
For the academic year 2022 – 2023, Statutory Assessment will go ahead. Year 2 assessments will be completed in May / June, Year 1 will undergo their phonics screening check in June of 2023, Year 4 will take part in the multiplication times table check and finally Year 6 will complete their SATs in May 2023.
If you would like to discuss any aspect of the curriculum please contact the school.
Further information can be found in the How we adapt the curriculum and learning environment for children and young people with SEN section of the SEND Information Report.
If you would like to discuss your SEND requirements in detail with our SENCO then please contact the school to arrange an appointment.
