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Our curriculum and assessment
Our Curriculum
At Downsell, we pride ourselves in the high standards of achievement, for our pupils. We believe in offering a broad and balanced curriculum that meets the individual learning styles of all.
We firmly believe that without enjoyment you cannot have excellence; so we strive to deliver a curriculum that allows for natural creativity and innovation.
Organisation
Here at Downsell we use the
Early Years Foundation Stage Curriculum
and the
National Curriculum
to plan for a broad and balanced curriculum for all of our pupils.
Our curriculum
provides a cross-curricular, thematic, rigorous teaching structure designed to engage children of all abilities in today’s world. With Reading at the core of our learning, we seek to ensure that our curriculum develops a passion for reading alongside the development of knowledge and skills across a range of subjects.
Each half term, the children in Years 1 -6 have a reading text linked to their topic. This cross-curricular approach ensures children’s learning is contextualised and relevant to them, whilst covering all the necessary subject requirements of Geography, History, Design & Technology, Art, Music, Science, PE and PSHE. French is taught in Year 3 - 6.
In line with the Equality Act 2010 and the SEND Regulations 2014, we ensure that our curriculum is matched to meet the needs of all learners. Children with identified learning difficulties, whether as an individual or as part of a group, are given extra support within the classroom and may occasionally be withdrawn for specialist intervention.
Curriculum Intent 2021 - 22.pdf
For information on what is studied in each year group please click on the links below:
Year 1 2021 - 22.pdf
Year 2 2021 - 22.pdf
Year 3 2021-22.pdf
Year 4 2021-22.pdf
Year 5 2021-22.pdf
Year 6 2021-22.pdf
Religious Education Policy.pdf
Assessment
We have developed an assessment system that takes into account the criteria of the National Curriculum, whilst providing a greater focus on deepening children's understanding and learning. Assessment recognises children's strengths as well as areas that need support.
We believe that effective assessment helps our children embed skills and knowldge to use it fleuntly across a range of areas, assisting us to produce clear next steps for our children. We do this by finding out what our children already know, so we can build on this, unpicking misconceptions, assessing throughout lessons and providing effective feedback to progress and move learning forward.
Assessments are carried out both formally and informally at different points of the year.
The following are statutory tests that carried out in primary schools:
Year 1 Phonics Screening Check
All children in Year 1 will participate in a phonics screening check. This assessment will be administered by the Year 1 teachers.
Year 2 Phonics Screening Check
Those children who did not pass the phonics screening check at the end of Year 1 will retake the check in Year 2. This will be administered by the teachers.
Further information
Parent Factsheet Phonics Screening Check-V338999324.pdf
Year 4 Times Table Check
The Year 4 times table check is statutory from this academic year, 2021 - 22. This will be administered as per Government guidelines, by the Year 4 teachers.
-Information for parents_ 2022 multiplication tables check.pdf-
SATs
Children in Year 2 and Year 6 are assessed during May; Year 2 as teacher assessment and Year 6 as both teacher assessment and summative assessment. The results of these assessments are shared with the families. Families will be informed if their child has met age related expectations at the assessment points at the end of Year 2 and Year 6.
Information for Parents / Carers
For more information about our curriculum please contact the school office who will put you in touch with a Senior Leader.
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