Curriculum – Currently under review and being updated

 

Our curriculum is based around the National Curriculum 2014 – follow this link to the Department of Education website.

Overview

The National Curriculum is a set of subjects and standards used by primary and secondary schools so all children learn the same things. It covers what subjects are taught and the standards children should reach in each subject. Our school curriculum is the environment in which we operate: it encompasses the National Curriculum plus all the other things which are taught and experienced at Goathland School.

Our school curriculum is engaging, high quality, inclusive, aspirational and is firmly underpinned by our Vision Statement.  Our children are well supported in their learning so that they become ”confident, ambitious and ready for the world.”

 

Esk Valley Alliance

Our school is a member of the Esk Valley Alliance (EVA) and our staff work across 8 similar Esk Valley Core Schools, with each teacher taking responsibility for planning a subject.  We have adapted a shared curriculum plan over a four year rolling programme which meets the challenges of small classes and mixed age groups, and enables us to share good practice, resources, trips and outings and provides an excellent broad and balanced education for our children.  Our curriculum recognises the wealth of opportunities provided by our local area as well as recognising those areas that are challenging due to our locality.

Our Curriculum

Please expand the topics below for more information

Computing

Curriculum Intent: Why is Computing important at Goathland School?

This subject develops transferrable skills to help move into a changing modern world. It helps children live well together by navigating relationships and using the internet safely. It builds critical thinking skills as children learn to evaluate and respond to information thoughfully.

Subject concepts / threads:

  • Coding
  • Information technology
  • Data handling
  • Vocabulary

PSHE and Relationships Education

Curriculum Intent: Why is PSHE important at Goathland School?

This subject is essential for helping children understand themselves and to develop safe, healthy relationships and personal wellbeing that will help them flourish in their present and future lives.  Use of the Espresso scheme of work ensures provision of age-appropriate content that increases in complexity and maturity through the year groups, allowing children to build on their skills and understanding each year.

Subject concepts / threads

age-appropriate content that increases in complexity and maturity through the year groups, allowing pupils to build on their skills and understanding each year.

Subject concepts / threads

– Healthy and happy friendships

– Similarities and differences, including protected characteristics

– Caring and responsibility

– Families and committed relationships

-Healthy bodies, healthy minds

– Coping with change

 

 

Reading and Phonics

Phonics teaching: Read, Write Inc.

Confident, automatic decoding is a firm basis for building fluency and comprehension. All  teachers have the highest expectation that children will become proficient readers by the end of Key Stage 1 through our systematic, consistent implementation of our chosen phonic programme Read, Write Inc. The intent of using this method is to:

  • Deliver a high-quality systematic synthetic phonics programme of proven effectiveness, which is followed with rigour and fidelity so that children are taught consistently to use phonics as the route to reading unknown words.
  • Ensure pace of the phonics programme is maintained so that children become fluent, independent readers by the end of year 1.
  • Ensure children’s reading books show a cumulative progression in phonics knowledge that match the grapheme-phoneme correspondences they know to support decoding skills.

Children are regularly assessed and are taught in small groups at their “challenge level” so that they can make the most rapid progress.  If a child is not progressing quickly, they will be offered additional teaching to ensure that a gap does not open up between them and their peers. Our aim is that children complete the RWI scheme as quickly as possible and move on to guided reading lessons.

Click here to find out more information about how your child will be introduced to phonics and how you can help them at home.

We use Read Write Inc. as our Phonics and Early Reading Scheme.

 

 

Goathland – Whole School Reading Overview