Progression and Planning

Curriculum Progression Maps are in place for all curriculum subjects, identifying the key knowledge and skills taught each year, key vocabulary and where these fit in to the Key Stage. These grids support teacher’s planning for the year and for each term across every subject. The Learning to Live, Living to Learn Concepts link throughout each subject Map.

The Maps also highlight key end points for each phase.

Teacher’s and Senior Leaders plan the Curriculum Map each year and teacher’s plan in more detail for each term, looking at how the learning will progress over the course of a term in each subject and how the learning can be further enriched.

We follow a 2-year cycle due to our mixed-age classes – Cycle A and Cycle B. The topics and themes within our maps may change each time we return to a cycle, but the key knowledge and skills taught will remain the same as they follow the Primary National Curriculum.

We teach an enquiry-based curriculum – starting each new topic or theme with an overall Enquiry Question and then proceeding with learning questions within each lesson. Pupils work with the teacher on deciding what these questions are. This model gives the pupils ownership of their learning, which increases engagement. Investigation skills are utilised through enquiry, which is a key factor in many curriculum subjects.

In every lesson, teachers share with the pupils what they are learning – knowledge and skills, how they are learning this, why they are learning this, prior learning which may help them and what they will learn in future lessons. They also will demonstrate how one or more of the concepts links to the lesson.