St. Mary’s Curriculum Information
Dear Parents/Carers,
At St Mary's we follow the statutory guidance of the New National Curriculum for all subjects. https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/national-curriculum.
Data is collated and submitted three times a year at the end of each full term. Half-termly assessment take place throughout the year for continuous monitoring.
Please see below an overview of our curriculum below.
St Mary's CE Curriculum Statement:-
Art
Lead: Miss Robinson
Progression document:
Assessment: Teacher assessment against NC objectives. Every half-term, our 'global investigations' are used to check ability to apply skills.
French
Lead: Miss Swanson
Progression document:
--French Progression of Skills.
Assessment: Teacher assessment of taught skills half-termly.
Maths
Lead: Miss Carey
Progression document:
--Power Maths Progression of Skills.
Assessment:
--Half-termly Power Maths assessments: 1 arithmetic and 1 reasoning. This is linked to Power maths progression of skills and age-related expectations.
--EYFS assess through consistent observation.
PSHE
Lead: Mrs Jaques
Progression document:
--PSHE Progression of Skills (whole school).
Click here for the full 3D Dimensions progression breakdowns.
Assessment: Teacher assessment against taught objectives from Progression of Skills based on National Curriculum.
Writing
Lead: Miss Carey and Mrs Jaques
Progression document:
--Writing Progression of Skills.
--'Alan Peat' Sentences Progression.
Assessment:
--Bi-weekly independent 'hot writes' assessed against Assertive Mentoring objectives Year 1-6 and End of Key Stage Expectations Year 2 and 6 (based on age-related expectations).
--Year 1 use Get Writing Read Write Inc. scheme to supplement writing assessments.
--EYFS assess through consistent observation.
Computing
Lead: Miss Thomas
Progression document:
--Computer Science Progression of Skills.
--Digital Literacy Progression of Skills.
Information Technology Skills Progression.
Assessment: Teacher assessment against taught objectives from Progression of Skills based on National Curriculum.
Geography
Lead: Miss Robinson
Progression document:
--Geography Progression of Skills.
Assessment: Teacher assessment against NC objectives. Every half-term, our 'global investigations' are used to check ability to apply skills.
Music
Lead: Mrs Whitfield
Progression document:
--Music Progression of Skills.
Assessment: Teacher assessment of taught skills from Progression of Skills.
Reading
Lead: Miss Nunwick
Progression document:
--Reading Progression of Skills.
Assessment:
--Termly NFER assessments against age-related expectations.
--KS1 and KS2 SATs.
--EYFS and KS1 Phonics assessments half-termly.
--Supplementary book-band assessments half-termly.
DT
Lead: Miss Robinson
Progression document:
Assessment: Teacher assessment against National Curriculum objectives. Every half-term, our 'global investigations' are used to check ability to apply skills.
History
Lead: Miss Robinson
Progression document:
--History Progression of Skills.
Assessment: Teacher assessment against National Curriculum objectives. Every half-term, our 'global investigations' are used to check ability to apply skills.
P.E
Lead: Miss Swanson
Progression document:
Assessment: Teacher assessment against taught objectives from Progression of Skills based on National Curriculum.
Science
Lead: Miss Nunwick
Progression document:
--Science Progression of Skills.
--Science Vocabulary Progression.
--Working Scientifically Progression.
Assessment: Assessment against progression of skills taken from National Curriculum using TAPs assessments to assess 'working scientifically' skills.
