Curriculum

The children are central to everything we do as a fully inclusive school. We expect all our children to achieve to their full potential by means of a challenging and exciting curriculum that develops a passion for life long learning.

 

Our Curriculum Statement can be found here 

Curriculum Statement 2023-24

 

We teach phonics using Read Write Inc. More information about Read Write Inc can be found by following the link’.

We use Reading Gladiators with groups of children from various year groups.

We are constantly reviewing our curriculum and will update our website as the development proceeds.

Our school curriculum is based on the Essentials Curriculum by Chris Quigley. The Essentials Curriculum sets out the essential coverage, learning objectives and standards which are required for all subjects. 

One of the primary reasons we chose this curriculum is because it emphasises the importance of developing the depth of children’s learning. In essence, this means providing children with increased cognitive challenge, allowing them to apply the skills which they have learnt independently in a range of contexts rather than moving them onto the next skill needlessly when they have not truly mastered it.

We feel this curriculum provides us with a coherent, progressive and appropriately sequenced curricular structure to enable our pupils to develop subject specific knowledge and skills to prepare them well for the next stages of their education. The curriculum, builds progressively on from the learning in the Foundation Stage. The milestones (1, 2 and 3) that are built into our curriculum complements our mixed age class structure. The curriculum is aligned to the National Curriculum and goes beyond National Curriculum requirements in each milestone to ensure repetition of skills and knowledge.

 

Overview of myHappymind

We are proud to be a part of the myHappymind Family!

As a whole school program grounded in science and dedicated to building positive mental wellbeing, myHappymind helps children understand how their brains work and creates a culture that helps to build children’s resilience, confidence, and self-esteem. myHappymind also teaches the children how to self-regulate and manage their emotions in stressful times, allowing them to be their very best selves!

Learn more here: https://myhappymind.org/ 

myHappymind Module Descriptions

-    Meet Your Brain: Understanding how your brain works and how to ensure we look after it so that we can manage our emotions and be at our best. Growth mindset is a key part of this too.
-    Celebrate: Understanding your unique character strengths and learning to celebrate them. This is a fantastic module for building self-esteem.
-    Appreciate: Understanding why gratitude matters and how you can develop gratitude as a habit. Gratitude is key to well-being and resilience and we’re all about making it a habit!
-    Relate: Understanding why positive relationships matter and how to build them. We’re focused on the building blocks of good relationships and friendships. 
-    Engage: Understanding how to set meaningful goals that matter and how to keep resilience in times of challenge. This module is all about building self-esteem and resilience too. 

Under the RSE link and above ‘for more information…’ please can you add: 

We use myHappymind to support our teaching of both PSHE and RSE. myHappymind is a mental health and well-being programme to support children in learning habits to support their own mental health. It does also cover all the mandatory objectives from the DfE Relationships Education Curriculum and also around 70% of the PSHE objectives.
 

 

A copy of the curriculum we use at Terling Primary School can be found here:

Essentials Curriculum content

Curriculum Map 2023-24