Rawcliffe Bridge Primary School: Curriculum Page

The curriculum is everything that a child learns in school.  At Rawcliffe Bridge Primary School we give the children a broad and balanced education giving them the opportunities to develop skills for life. We follow the requirements of the National Curriculum and have developed our own creative curriculum which you can see outlined in our pdf files alongside. Our curriculum has six areas of learning for children in Nursery and Reception. The areas are Mathematical development, communication language and literacy, personal social and emotional development, physical development , knowledge and understanding of the world and creative development. The rest of the school plan their work in seven areas. They are: understanding mathematical development; understanding the arts; understanding scientific and technological development; understanding English, Communication and Languages; historical, geographical and social understanding, understanding physical development, health and well-being and Religious Education.

Each year we plan three themes from which we develop work in the learning areas. We introduce the children to French and German. We work with the local Secondary school to give children opportunities in Business and Enterprise. The older children are also involved in the Joint Generation Council and they work with the Parish Council to develop initiatives in the village.

The themes for 2009-2010 were Romans, Italy and The Wind in the Willows. The themes for 2010-2011 are Victorians, Australia and Space. Our educational visits and visitors are well planned to enhance our themes and give the children first hand experiences. Visits and Visitors for 2010-2011 Nursery- Breakfast with Santa Sugar Mill Ponds Planetarium in school hall Reception and Year 1- York Castle Museum and Victorian workshop on Moving Toys Breakfast with Santa Pantomime Sugar Mill Ponds Skylark Centre at Drax Seaside trip to Hornsea Planetarium in school hall Year 2 and KS2- Murton Park Victorian Experience Day Pantomime Skylark Centre at Drax Seaside trip to Hornsea Planetarium in school hall Year 4,5 and 6 One day trip to Kingswood, Penistone for Outdoor and Adventurous PE Activities Years 5 and 6 Two night residential trip on Canal Boat

We also have peripatetic teachers who come in to school to teach violin, flute, clarinet and guitar.

Each year the infants produce their version of the Nativity and each summer term the juniors produce a grand musical spectacular. Recently they have produced Grease, The Wizard of Oz and in 2010 they will produce The Wind in the Willows. We aim to constantly challenge the children and help them to move forward at their own pace. We provide each child with tasks at an appropriate level, based whenever possible on first hand experience and geared to their needs. Each child’s progress is constantly monitored and recorded against school and national targets.

Our School Curriculum:

Foundation

Key Stage 1

Key Stage 2 Yr 3-4

Key Stage 2 Yr 5-6

Have a look at our school curriculum by clicking on the icons to the left.

African Music

Listen to some African music that we had in our school on one of our African Days. You can hear, in the second song, that our children have joined in. It was really great fun and gave us an insight into African life and culture.

Our time at Kingswood:

Use our interactive 3D Wall to see some of the excellent activities that our children engaged with on their residential trip to Kingswood. You can see that we had great fun and learnt a lot about ourselves and each other as we encountered different types of obstacles and problems.

Our time at the beach:

Our School Work Galleries:

Have a look at some of our childrens' work by browsing through our interactive work galleries below:

School Life Interactive Photo Walls:

Get an excellent overview of school life by looking through our interactive photo walls. They will show you hundreds of photos displaying a variety of activities that take place in school. You'll see how wide and varied is our curriculum and just how much opportunity we provide here for life learning.

School Videos:

Have a look at some videos showing different aspects of school life and work.

School Interviews:

Listen to the views of our children as they share what they like the best about being at school.

School Music:

Have a listen to some of our KS1 children singing some songs.

Comments:

I really enjoy coming to this school. Every one is so friendly and we learn a lot too.