Curriculum
At Speen School, our curriculum arises from our beautiful site and village locality. Our child-centred approach to learning is built to achieve purposeful and enriching key learning outcomes. These outcomes provide each child with an exciting focus on their learning, developing skills that are necessary for today’s world and instilling a lifelong love of learning as they progress through their educational journey.
It is our intent for our curriculum to facilitate discovery, harnessing children’s natural curiosity in learning. Our curriculum offers pupils exciting and engaging learning experiences, which are designed to:
- Encourage pupils to eagerly seek knowledge about the amazing world around them.
- Help pupils to enjoy and take pride in developing skills which enable them to achieve the highest standards of which they are capable.
- Develop pupils’ individual powers of observation, discussion, reasoning and communication, especially the ability to use language and number.
- Stimulate pupils’ appreciation of the scale and scope of human achievement, past and present (cultural capital), and to encourage them to seek, believe and achieve in the development of their own creative talents and skills.
- Foster personal growth in our school’s values of respect, honesty, courage, compassion, responsibility and family, to equip pupils to live lives as confident and competent individuals, able to make informed and reasoned choices for themselves, developing healthy relationships, having a high regard for the needs of others.
Should you have any questions surrounding our school curriculum, please direct them to Ms Davies through the school office. Information regarding individual subjects can also be found below.
Early Years Foundation Stage Curriculum
Subject Specific Overviews
Art & Design
Computing
Computing intent, implementation and impact
Computing progression of skills
Online safety progression map of skills and knowledge
Computing progression of knowledge
Online Safety - Project Evolve
As part of our Computing Curriculum, we use a comprehensive scheme of work to teach aspects of Online Safety explicitly throughout the year. Project Evolve is an online based scheme of work which is constantly 'evolving' to ensure the online safety messages that children and young people are being taught are delivered in a way that is more appropriate; more meaningful; that encourages reflection; that generates positive outcomes and are updating regularly to reflect the changing world.
Online Safety content is separated into eight strands which are taught throughout the year covering everything from online relationships to copyright and ownership.
Design and Technology
English
Geography
History
Maths
Music
PSHE and RSHE
At Speen School, we deliver our PSHE/RSHE through a programme called Jigsaw. Jigsaw is a complete scheme of work for PSHE covering the entire PSHE curriculum for primary children 4 – 11. Jigsaw’s philosophy is about inclusion and valuing all children which links perfectly with our values here at Speen School.
Recently, the Department for Education (DfE) have made the Relationships and Health Education aspect of PSHE compulsory in all Primary Schools.
To support our delivery of a PSHE curriculum which encompasses the new requirements regarding Relationships, Sex and Health Education, we will continue using Jigsaw. Jigsaw lessons will take place weekly.
Helpful Documents
RSHE - A guide for parents and carers
Curriculum
Science
Science Rationale
At Speen School, we nurture the natural curiosity of our children and shape it into scientific enquiry. We scaffold learning and skills so that children develop their understanding of the world around them and develop the confidence to explore, collect evidence and test their own hypothesis. Our pupils love to spend their time in our uniquely beautiful and inspiring setting. Their opportunities to understand and explore the world around us as well as develop scientific skills are extensive, whether it is listening for different sounds, searching for mini beasts within our home-designed ‘Bugingham Palace’, sensory garden or pond area, or observing the changing seasons within our natural environment.
Sustainability Within Our Curriculum
Speen School – Sustainability Within our Curriculum
At Speen School we are grateful for the wonderful environment we learn in and are committed to protecting all aspects of nature.
Sustainability is part of everyday learning for all children, from Little Apples through to Year 2. We believe that teaching sustainability in the formative years helps children develop an understanding of their role in creating a sustainable world. It also promotes responsible citizenship and helps children learn to make informed decisions about the environment and their own health.
Every child at Speen School takes part in a weekly Forest School session. One of the guiding principles of which is:
“Forest Schools takes place in a natural or woodland environment to support the development of a lifelong relationship between the learner and the natural world”.
In addition to Forest Schools, there are many other ways in which we support our children in fostering a sense of responsibility to ensure they become lifelong advocates for sustainability.
We have an active eco-council who have worked very hard to gain the Eco-Flag Award (Distinction) for the school.
They regularly hold assemblies to discuss initiatives with their peers and have written our eco-code:
The Eco-Council and wider pupil body have actively supported the following events over the last year:
Speen School Environmental Awareness Calendar
Please see the following documents for details of how each year group supports the schools commitment to sustainability:
Bramley Class Sustainability Curriculum
Pippins Class Sustainability Curriculum
Little Apples Sustainability Curriculum
