Hope, Compassion and Responsibility

Curriculum

At Hainford we teach in mixed-aged and Key Stage classes. We celebrate the opportunities that this structure providers. We have created a rich, varied and inter-woven school curriculum to meet our learner's needs. It reflects where the children come from and provides an excellent base for their future schooling and adult life.

The curriculum at Hainford uses and builds upon the National Curriculum ensuring that children study areas in depth, in order to secure children's knowledge and understanding while providing plenty of opportunity for children to apply what they have learnt. At Hainford, we don't believe that Knowledge should be taught in isolated chunks or facts. We have therefore created a set of rigorously planned rolling overviews in order that children can apply their knowledge and skills across different subjects and in different contexts. To avoid tenuously-linked activities that have and an, 'activity for activity sake approach, each subject is planned discretely with subject specific knowledge and skills as starting point.

In-order for children to have a voice, KWL grids are used at the beginning of each deep study. Children are able to add in questions or possible areas of additional learning helping to provide a degree of ownership and therefore additional motivation.

To further children's motivation, an Inquiry approach is used. Pupils become experts by negotiating an imagined context. They can immerse themselves in a time in history, a geographical location or a story narrative through role-playing, questioning, directing and imagining.

We use in-depth 'deep studies' in science, Geography, Art, D&T and history, which are taken directly from the National Curriculum. Each study is planned in depth to ensure subject-specific knowledge and skills are learnt in national Curriculum. Each study is planned in depth to ensure Subject-specific knowledge and skills are learnt national curriculum stipulated contexts. Consequently, these studies provide the majority of evidence for assessment purposes. Children's work, including written pieces, produced during these subjects enables them to demonstrate their knowledge and skills specially for that subject. Work is marked to reflect this.

On occasions deep-studies might appear more than once in different classes; these studies comprises of different knowledge and skills focuses.

As we have an inter-woven curriculum, children will also have many opportunities to apply the knowledge and skills that they have learnt in their deep studies. For example while children are studying the achievements of the earliest civilizations through the Egyptians, they will be able to apply their geographical knowledge of rivers to the importance of the river Nile.

Knowledge and skills focus would still be predominately history focused.

Finally, we carefully plan educational visits, visitors and programmes such as: Shakespeare in school, Charlie Charlie one and goblin racer. These projects enrich our curriculum.

In addition to this the school follows the Norfolk Agreed Syllabus for Religious Education. Parents who do not what their child to take part in Religious Education lessons or in collective acts of worship should express their wishes in writing to the Headteacher.

Long Term Curriculum Overviews 2024/2025

Classes

Class 1 - Miss Gower

Year R/1

Class 1 Curriculum Plan

Class 2 - Mrs watts

Year 2/3

Class 2 Curriculum Plan

Class 3 - Miss Woods & Mr Cross

Year 4,5,6

Class 3 Curriculum Plan

Parent Overviews 2024/25

	Autumn	Spring	Summer
Class 1	Autumn 1	Spring
Class 2	Autumn 1 Autumn 2	Spring term	Summer term
Class 3	Autumn 1 Autumn 2	Spring 1 Spring 2	Summer 1

Skills Progression Map

Core Subjects

Subject	Skills Map	Christian Distinctiveness	Supporting Documents
English	Download	View Here	Curriculum plan
Phonics	Nebula Phonics	View Here	Phonic Statement Phonics for Year R Phonics for Year 1 Phonics for Year 2
Mathematics	Download	View Here	Calculation Policy Medium Term Plan Long Term Plan Maths Intent
Science	Download	View Here	LTP

Foundation Subjects

Subject	Overview	Skills and Progression Documents	Christian Distinctiveness	Long Term Plans and Supporting Documents
Let's Think in English(LTE)	Overview	Skills and Progression		LTP
Computing		Skills and Progression	View here	LTP
Art	Overview	Skills and Progression	View here	LTP
Design Technology	Overview	Skills and Progression	View here	LTP
Geography	Overview	Skills and Progression	View here	LTP
History	Overview	Skills and Progression	View here	LTP
Music	Overview	Skills and Progression	View here	LTP
Physical Education	Overview	Skills and Progression	View here	LTP
Relationships, Sex and Health Education (RSHE)		Skills and Progression		LTP
Personal, Health and Social Education (PSHE)		Skills and Progression	View here	LTP
RE	Overview	Skills and Progression	View here	LTP RE Policy statement
French		Skills and Progression	View here	LTP