Our Curriculum - old

National Curriculum.

A ‘curriculum’ is a list of content to be taught and learnt – a course of study for schools, colleges and universities. From September 2014, the government produced a new National Curriculum. Private schools, academies and free schools are exempt: they do not need to follow the requirements.

Phonics

 

At St Augustine's, phonics is taught daily to all children in Reception and Year One. We use the 'Phonics Bug' programme to teach children the letters of the alphabet and their matching sounds.

 

What makes Phonics Bug so special?

• Phonics Bug meets 100% of the DfE criteria for teaching systematic synthetic phonics. 

• Encourages young readers with beautiful artwork, humour, loveable characters and books and topics they really want to read.

• Fast, effective phonics lessons using CBeebies videos and interactive whiteboard activities.

• Prepare and Assess online games, word generator and mock tests for the Year 1 screening check.

• Combines an online reading world with stunning eBooks and beautiful printed books to spark enthusiasm.

 

Phonic sessions are taught 5 days a week for 30 to 40 minutes each day and within this lesson, guided reading takes place, linked to the new taught sound for that day. Children are taught in small groups based on their ability for phonics within their own class.

 

By the end of Reception, children are expected to know all Phase Three sounds. By the end of Year One all children are expected to know all Phase Five sounds. When finishing Key Stage One, most children are secure in Phase Six sounds. This phase moves away from learning sounds and focuses on spelling rules and patterns.

 

At the end of Year One all the children in the country take a test called a Phonics Screening. They have to read 40 real and nonsense words. We call the nonsense words ‘Alien words’ and the children practice reading them every day.

 

For more information on how you can support your child in learning to read, click on the helpful links below. If you have any questions, please come and see Mrs Archibald.

Reading

 

At St Augustine's School we use 'Phonics Bugs' for our reading scheme in Early Years and Year 1 (Year 2 for those children who have not passed the Phonics Screening Check).  

Phonics Bug Club is an online reading scheme, which ensures children have access to decodable books, which are varied and have a rich reading experience. What’s more, there is a personalised website for each child using the online reading world.  The books are allocated to the children linked to the sounds they are learning that week. 

 

Also the children (Year 1 to Year 6) have access to a variety of published schemes (ORT, Bug Club, Rigby Star and others) and our school library.  The published schemes are organised in widely based book bands and our library is organised by key stages and fiction/non-fiction books.

St Augustine’s Foundation Curriculum

Our curriculum has been devised by the staff.  We have used the national curriculum objectives to make it unique for our school.  We also have a ‘bucket list’ of activities which we use as a ‘wow’ to start or end the topic and skills and values which run throughout the whole curriculum.  We have a two year rolling programme for KS1 and a four year rolling program for KS2, which ensures continuity and experience for our children across the Key Stages.  We are currently working on Year A (2021/22).  Please find below details of our curriculum topics from Years Early Years to Year 6.

For details of our Early Years Foundation Stage Curriculum, please see our Class Pages.

Blossom and Willow Class

  

  

  

Welcome to our PSHE area. 

 

PSHE Statement of Intent

At St Augustine’s Catholic Primary School, personal, social and health education (PSHE) enables our children to become healthy, independent and responsible members of society. We aim to help them understand how they are developing personally and socially, tackling the moral, social and cultural issues that are part of growing up. We aim to provide our children with opportunities for them to learn about rights and responsibilities and appreciate what it means to be a member of a diverse society. Our children are encouraged to develop their sense of self-worth by playing a positive role in contributing to school life and the wider community.

 

Aims and Intent

We are aware of how PSHE supports many of the principles of safeguarding and links closely to schools Safeguarding, SMSC and British Values Policies. We believe PSHE is central to a school’s ethos, supporting children in their development, and underpinning learning in the classroom, school, and in the wider community. Values are fundamental expressions of what we think and believe. As a Church school, we have a monthly value and encourage the children to think about these values, to become aware of, and involved in the life and concerns of their community and society, and so develop their capacity to be active and effective future citizens.

 

Curriculum

Through our PSHE curriculum we recognise our duty to ‘actively promote’ and provide opportunity for children understand the fundamental British values first set out by the Government in the ‘Prevent’ strategy in 2014, of:

• democracy

• the rule of law

• individual liberty

• mutual respect

• tolerance

• respect for of those with different faiths and beliefs in order for them to become fair, tolerant and confident adults in a forever challenging world

 

PSHE Curriculum Implementation

We deliver the PSHE curriculum by utilising first hand experience and sharing good practice. However, we are aware that the delivered curriculum must reflect the needs of our pupils. We expect teachers to use a PSHE programme to equip pupils with a sound understanding of risk and with the knowledge and skills necessary to make safe and informed decisions. We believe that the purpose of PSHE education is to build on the statutory content already outlined in the national curriculum, the basic school curriculum and in statutory guidance on: ie, drug education, financial education, citizenship, personal safety, sex and relationship education (SRE) and the importance of physical activity and diet for a healthy lifestyle.

 

We believe that PSHE plays a vital part of primary education and is therefore taught weekly in every class.  This enables staff to ensure full coverage of curriculum is taught in their year group. There are always occasions where teachers may feel it necessary to teach PSHE as a result of an issue arisen in their own class. PSHE is integral to the development of children values in order for them to become a positive citizen in a forever changing community. PSHE is an important part of school assemblies were children’s spiritual, moral, social and cultural curiosity is stimulated, challenged and nurtured.