The Curriculum

In history, our aim is for the children to become curious about what came before and to develop understanding of how the past is different from their present. The curriculum teaches about significant men, women, children and events from the recent and more distant past, including those from both Britain and the wider world. Historical skills which the children develop include a sense of chronology, raising questions, how to gain understanding from artefacts and other sources of information, comparing and contrasting different time periods, and recognising why people in the past might have acted as they did. The history curriculum is brought alive and enhanced through school visits.

Computing

ICT is rapidly changing the way we teach and the way children learn. It is having an ever-increasing impact on our daily lives for which we start to prepare the children. The teaching staff use smartboards, tablets and laptops across all subject areas and each of our classrooms has its own computers. As part of our ongoing programme to increase our ICT provision in school, we have a mobile suite of laptops for use by the children, allowing broader opportunities for the pupils to practise their skills during focused ICT lessons.

The classes are resourced with other technologies such as ‘Roamers’ and ‘Beebots’. Children explore ICT and learn to use it confidently and with purpose. They develop specific skills, including the use of the keyboard, how to enter, store and retrieve information, how to give instructions to make things happen, how to develop and share ideas through using text, tables, images and sound, and how to test what happens in imaginary situations.