Intent – Our vision for the curriculum  

Every learner valued, every opportunity seized, every achievement celebrated

At Campton Academy we believe our core purpose is to ensure all pupils attain the highest standards in all aspects of the curriculum. Through our teaching we equip children with the skills, values, knowledge and understanding necessary to be able to make informed choices about the important things in their lives and develop a lifelong love of learning. We believe that appropriate teaching and learning experiences help children to lead happy, productive and rewarding lives. To achieve these goals we have a clear, shared approach to teaching and learning and to the school ethos.

Our intention is that our curriculum ensures that all the needs of the children are met and allows them to develop the skills and determination to become lifelong learners. Our curriculum has been designed in partnership with all our stakeholders; the children, all members of our staff, governors and parents.  Our curriculum has been designed to ensure all pupils are able to make excellent progress and to ensure this is achieved we have made reading a strong focus in our curriculum design.

Implementation – How our curriculum is being delivered.

Our curriculum is based on the National Curriculum, but has been designed to go further to encourage our pupils to be able to challenge and critically think for themselves.  All of the subjects are closely monitored, curriculum leaders have a strong knowledge of their areas and work alongside teachers to ensure links are made across the topics.

 Our pupils are offered a very wide range of experiences to extend their understanding of themselves and the world in which they live. Skills, attitudes and values are developed to prepare the children for the next stage of learning, and enable them to be successful in the community. We believe that effective learning takes place when there is considerable emphasis on active involvement, opportunities to talk both imaginatively and expressively, and to explain and clarify thinking.

There is evidence that teaching subject knowledge using a cross curricular approach allows pupils to make useful links between areas of learning, and consolidate skills. Children are also likely to be more engaged in their learning if they can make links between different subjects. This is something we have been mindful of when building our whole school long term plans.  We have ensured that there is strong focus on reading throughout all areas to enabling the children to be exposed to a rich environment of literature.  Woven into our curriculum is our PSHE scheme of work encompassing our set of Values and the British Values.  It is extremely important that children are taught and have relevant experiences, to develop the skills and resilience they will need keep safe and prepare them for life and work in our constantly changing society.

The curriculum has the following structure:  

	Autumn		Spring			Summer
Reception	All About Me Terrific Tales		Amazing Animals What’s Outside?			Journeys What can I fill my bucket with?
Year 1	Marvellous me		No Place like home			Once upon a time / Hot & Cold places
	Science	Animals including humans / materials	Science	Animals including humans / materials		Science	Plants
	History	Victorians	History	Comparing Queen Victoria and Queen Elizabeth		History	Cardington Hangers
	Geography	Local environment	Geography	Study of UK		Geography	Weather in other countries. Hot / Cold
	Art	Portraits	Art	Mir Ó		Art	Natives Sculptures
	DT	Moving pictures	DT	Packed lunch problems		DT	Dips and dippers
	Computing	Early coding E-safety Animated books	Computing	Finding, storing, organising & importing pictures Coding / greeting cards		Computing	Writing and illustrating am e-book Instructions
	Music	Ourselves / animals Exploring sound / pitch / beat	Music	Machines / Seasons Percussion instrument		Music	Story time / travel Exploring sound, beat, rhythm
	RE	What do Christians believe God is like?	RE	Looking at special places Churches, Mosques Easter		RE	Who is Jewish? What do they believe and how to they live?
	PE	Multi-skills / Dance	PE	Gym / Ball skills		PE	Throwing, catching / Athletics
	PSHE	Health & Wellbeing	PSHE	Relationships	PSHE		Living in the wider world
Year 2	Fire & Ice		Wonderful World			Land of the Dragons
	Science	Materials	Science	Animals, including humans		Science	Plants and variation Living things and their habitats
	History	Great fire of London	History	Explorers		History	Chinese new year and the great wall
	Geography	The seaside (hot and cold areas)	Geography	What a wonderful world		Geography	Let’s go to China
	Art	Colour Chaos (Abstract Artists)	Art	Landscapes and Cityscapes (impressionist artists)		Art	Dragons (Sketching and drawing skills)
	DT	Vehicles (Fire engines)	DT	Making Puppets		DT	Chinese Dragons Sensational Salads
	Computing	Coding E-safety Databases	Computing	Email Coding		Computing	Presenting a researches topic Taking and using photographs
	Music	Ourselves Toys Our land Our bodies	Music	Animals Number Storytime Seasons		Music	Weather Pattern Water Travel
	RE	Sacred books and Stories Celebrating significant times	RE	Caring for others and why it matters Caring for the world and why it matters		RE	Inspiring people and religious stories The good news Jesus brings
	PE	Multi Skills Dance	PE	Gymnastics Ball Skills		PE	Field Games Athletics
	PSHE	Who are your VIP’s? Rights	PSHE	Our bodies Keeping Safe		PSHE	Think happy feel happy Families
Year 3	Stones and Bones		Time changes			Up Up and Away
	Science	Rocks and Soils	Science	Plants		Science	Animals including humans
	History	The Stone age to the iron age	History	Ancient Civilization		History	Ancient Greece
	Geography	Mountains, Rivers and Coasts	Geography	British Isles		Geography	Geographical Skills
	Art	Autumn	Art	British Art		Art	Insects
	DT	Juggling Balls	DT	Mechanical Posters		DT	Edible Garden
	Computing	E-Safety / Networks Animation	Computing	Coding De-bugging		Computing	Collecting and analysing Data Email and attachments
	Music	Environment Poetry	Music	China In the Past		Music	Singing French Ancient Worlds
	RE	Places of worship Ceremonies	RE	Trinity Good Friday		RE	Jesus and the World Religious Festivals
	PE	Multi-Skills Boot Camp	PE	African Dance Mighty Moves		PE	Gymnastics Athletics
	PSHE	Health and Wellbeing	PSHE	Relationships		PSHE	Living in the wider world
Year 4	We’ll Meet Again		Local History			Storms and Shipwrecks
	Science	Animals including humans States of matter	Science	Electricity Scientists		Science	Living things and their habitat Sound
	History	Romans	History	The history of RAF Chicksands		History	Anglo-Saxons
	Geography	United Kingdom Countries, Cities Types of Settlements	Geography	Water Water cycle Pollution etc		Geography	Map reading skills
	Art	Theme: Fruit & Veg	Art	At the seaside		Art	Bodies
	DT	Designing a kite	DT	Battery operated lights		DT	Making bread
	Computing	E-Safety Phishing/ Malware Computer hardware	Computing	E-Safety - Plagiarism Digital Music Blogging		Computing	Software Developers Collecting, analysing and presenting data E-Safety – Screen Time
	Music	Poetry and the environment Sounds and Recycling	Music	Building and Around the world Ancient Worlds		Music	Communication and Time In the past
	RE	Hindus Sikh	RE	Muslims Christians		RE	Islam
	PE	Multi-skills	PE	Tennis Multi-Skills		PE	Rounders Sports Day
	PSHE	Living in the wider world	PSHE	Relationships		PSHE	health and Wellbeing

The combination of subjects planned over a year will teach the statutory programme of study for the National Curriculum.  Our units of work are carefully chosen to provide full coverage of the National Curriculum and this is monitored through the use of national curriculum objectives which are reviewed each term to ensure coverage is going to be completed.

English

Our English curriculum follows the guidelines laid down in the National Curriculum. We aim to promote high standards of language and literacy by equipping pupils with a strong command of the spoken and written word and by developing a love of literature through reading for enjoyment.

Not only do we encourage our children to become confident readers and writers but we value performance and the speaking and listening strands of the National Curriculum. We nurture confident children who engage in deep conversations and debates about topics and important issues. Children question each other in a challenging, yet respectful way, to further understanding and explore meaning. Drama is used to develop children’s expression and confidence and all children get the opportunity to perform on the stage. We teach children to present clearly and use intonation and expression to capture an audience and entertain.

In Reception, Year 1 and Year 2 pupils follow the fully synthetic Essential Letters and Sounds programme for phonics.

Maths

We aim to develop motivated, creative and resilient mathematicians who can confidently apply what they learn. Most of all, we want children to enjoy maths and to get excited about the challenges the subject can bring. Maths is about learning new skills and practising these to become fluent, so as to be able to apply them in real life situations. It is important to us that children see the relevance of maths and why it is needed in life. We set our children’s learning in context by making the links to real life, and across the curriculum, giving their learning worth.  To help us achieve this we are using White Rose maths to guide our planning.  We want the children to acquire long term deep skills to ensure they have a strong understanding.  In order to achieve this all the children are taught the same objectives at the same time, but built into our planning, is the support required to ensure all children can make progress.

Values

We follow a Values Based Learning programme, which explores values that are critical for us to understand life in modern Britain and beyond. Each half term, a new value is introduced and through assemblies and lessons the children learn what the Value means and how to demonstrate it, both at school and home. We think carefully about our values, explore them in our learning and expect everyone at Campton to demonstrate them whenever we can.

Term	Year A Even Years	Year B Odd Years
Autumn 1	Respect	Honesty
Autumn 2	Kindness	Acceptance
Spring 1	Determination	Perseverance
Spring 2	Friendship	Thoughtfulness
Summer 1	Courage	Patience
Summer 2	Co-operation	Teamwork

Our Values learning programme is strongly linked with our PSHE curriculum which also encompasses the British values. For children to be able to navigate, participate and stay safe in the world it is vital that we equip them with the skills to do so.  So we aim to ensure all children receive high quality PSHE lessons which are monitored and reviewed in the same way as all our other curriculum areas.   

Enrichment Opportunities

To enhance the curriculum and make learning even more stimulating, students have the opportunity to go on visits and trips as part of their topics, including an evacuee day.  Many of our children come from the local military base and we have worked hard to form positive relationships with the personnel on the base.  We offer a range of after school activities which change each half term. These are run by SSG (a professional sports and activities provider). The school has a small but supportive PTA who help support the school in many ways.

Impact- the effectiveness of our curriculum

We use a rigorous monitoring system throughout the school to ensure the curriculum programme is meeting all the needs of the children and providing the right levels of challenge to enable our children to reach their maximum potential.  This is undertaken through learning walks, book scrutinies and conversations with the pupils, both by the senior leaders and the subject leaders.

Campton Academy is a highly achieving school and we are proud that our curriculum supports pupils to achieve standards above those achieved nationally.

However, we are constantly looking for ways to improve children’s learning and to ensure our curriculum dynamically reflects the ever-changing world that we live in.

 

if you wish to know more about our school curriculum, please contact the school office on 01462 813359 or email CMA-Info@bestacademies.org.uk

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