Curriculum

It is constantly evolving to develop the skills needed for children to become successful learners, help prepare them for life in modern Britain and empower them to achieve success in the future. Our aim is to provide an exciting, memorable and innovative curriculum that challenges and inspires children to become successful and confident learners, achieving their best.

At Manor Way we are very proud of the rich and varied curriculum that we provide. We strive to create engaging experiences for all children across the school. We are constantly developing and learning with the children to make our curriculum and their time at Manor Way the best that it can be.

I am Knowledge Attitudes Values Skills

Our Aspire Curriculum

Our curriculum develops students’ aspirations so that they strive to be the best that they can be. We carefully plan the subject knowledge, skills and vocabulary, coupled with specific Aspire learning behaviours, so that our students have the tools to be successful in learning and in life.

Aspire Learning Behaviours

These Aspire learning behaviours are planned for and developed through Aspire curriculum lessons. The Aspire Superheroes provide a way of helping students to understand each of the specific learning behaviours. ‘I and We Aspire’ signals that the learning behaviours are important to demonstrate independently and in collaboration with others.

Our Curriculum model

Our curriculum is planned through 6 themes that run throughout the year with a lead subject for each theme. The knowledge and skills have been mapped out with threshold concepts which are all linked to a big question which the children are asked at the start of the theme. The theme starts with a stunning start and ends with a fabulous finish where children can exhibit and share their learning.

During the theme there is cumulative quizzing, where questions from the current theme are posed alongside questions which retrieve knowledge from previous learning to keep all learning revisited.

How will I know what my child is learning?

The one page knowledge organisers give pupils a wide range of key facts for them to learn throughout a theme. These are sent home and worked through in lessons to ensure that children retain important facts in their long term memory.

Here is an example of a science knowledge organiser:

Science Knowledge Organiser

Materials & Recycling

Reception Summer 1

What? (Key Knowledge)

There are many different types of materials that include metal, wood, fabric, glass, paper, rock and plastic.

Materials look and feel different to each other.

Different materials are used in different ways e.g. wood for furniture, wool for clothes.

Some materials come from natural resources and some are made by humans.

Recycling is when we use a material again by changing it or by making it something else.

Some materials cannot be changed but can be used as something else.

We sort our weekly rubbish into things that can be recycled and things that can’t such as decaying food.

We sort recyclable rubbish by material.

Personal Experiences

Can I name common materials that I am using and where some materials come from e.g. plastic is made, wool is from sheep?

Can I choose the best materials for different objects I use to be made from?

Do I know what happens to food when it is left and not thrown away? How does it change? What happens to it then?

Can I sort junk items by the materials they are made from? (Walk to the local recycling bins, look at the recycling bins they used at home, interview or watch the refuse collectors)

Do I know what recycling is and can I talk about how we recycle at home and at school?

Do I know what a landfill is? How do I feel about pictures of landfill?

Can I find things that are being recycled at school or at home? E.g. tyre planters, paper What ways can I find to turn a piece of junk into something new?

Diverse World

People around the world work with materials in different ways e.g cotton pickers, mining. Rubbish is the world’s problem e.g. rubbish in the oceans, floating rubbish islands. Recycling is one way to minimise this.

Widening Vocabulary

material What something is made from. Materials include metal, wood, fabric, glass, paper, rock and plastic. They feel different such as being rough or smooth and look different such as being dull or shiny.

natural Something that comes from nature manmade Something made by humans decay To rot or break down. Things that decay may go mouldy recycle To use something again by changing it or giving it another purpose. landfill A place where things that aren’t recycled go.

Working Scientifically

To ask questions about aspects of the familiar world. To produce their own ideas of which resources to use and to test them out.

To use simple comparative statements to talk about ‘which worked best’.