Parent Workshop

Autumn Term 2015 The New Primary Curriculum

What do you remember learning

about at primary school?

Why the New Curriculum?

Raising standards

Freedom for schools

Reduced Content

Personalised Curriculum

At Knaphill, we want an engaging curriculum that meets the needs

our children, inspires them and prepares them for the future!

What has changed????

Maths • Counting in multiples

• Add and subtract mentally with three digit numbers

• Know times table facts up to 12x12 by end of Year 4

• Read and write in Roman Numerals

• Statistics

• Fractions have moved down to KS1

• There is a strong focus on number calculation skills in all

year groups

• Old Year 6 expectations have moved down the school

so expectations are higher in ALL year groups

• Old Level 5/6 are the new expected by the end of Yr 6!

• NO CALCULATORS in tests

English • Phonics to decode words

• Increased focus on reading for pleasure

• Whole texts and not just extracts

• Focus on presentation and improving handwriting

• Poetry back with a bang!

• Children must be able to remember and recite poetry

• Less reference to drama

• Increased focus on grammar

• Spelling lists and word lists provided

• Learning how to talk in formal and informal situations

Science • No reference to drugs as medicines – in year 6

children focus on impact of drugs on the way

their body functions

• Fossils in year three

• Basic parts of the digestive system in year four

• Describe differences between life cycles of

different types of animals in year five

• Evolution and inheritance in year six

• Electricity voltage in year six

Design Technology • Understand how key events and individuals in

design and technology have helped to shape

the world

• Prepare and cook a variety of predominately

savoury dishes using a range of cooking

techniques

• Understand seasonality and know where and

how ingredients are grown, reared, caught and

processed

• Understand and apply the principles of a healthy

and varied diet

Humanities • Geography

• Locational knowledge facts focus!

• Countries of the world, environmental regions,

key physical and human characteristics,

countries and major cities

• Know countries, counties and cities in the UK,

geographical regions and land use patterns –

know how aspects have changed over time

• Climate, rivers, mountains, volcanoes,

earthquakes and the water cycle

Humanities

• we cover History sequentially ,

focussing on British History

Humanities • Britain from the Stone Age to the Iron Age

• The Roman Empire and its impact on Britain

• Britain’s settlement by the Anglo Saxons & Scots

• Struggle between the Anglo Saxons & Vikings

• An aspect or theme of British History beyond 1066

• Ancient Greece

• Africa

Religious Education • Follow Surrey’s locally agreed syllabus

• Focus on major religions

• Major themes that link religions

Modern Foreign Languages

• Learning a modern foreign language at KS2 is

now statutory

• Focus on practical communication

• Pupils should make substantial progress in that

language!

The Arts • Art

• Content slimmed down

• Sketch books to record observations

• Mastery of art and design techniques such as drawing,

painting, sculptures etc.

• Learn about great artists, architects and designers in history

• Music

• Practising, rehearsing, and presenting performances

• Exploring and explaining ideas and feelings about music

• Making improvements to their own and others work

PSCHE Citizenship is not statutory at KS2

• Personal, Social & Health Education is also not

statutory but covers friendships, growing up,

understanding differences between people,

being responsible citizens as well as SRE

Physical Education

• Physical Education

• Has been greatly slimmed down

• Rules, conventions and tactics of different

games

• Competitive games are essential

• Gymnastics, athletics and dance

• Outdoor adventurous activities

• Swimming

Computing • Design, write and debug programs to accomplish

specific goals

• Use sequences and repetition

• Use logical reasoning to explain how some simple

algorithms work and to detect errors in them

• Understand computer networks and the internet

• Select, use and combine a variety of software on a

range of digital devices

• Use technology safely, respectfully and responsibly

More challenging curriculum

More challenging tests that will report precise scaled score at the

end of key stages rather than a level

More detailed performance descriptors available to inform teacher

assessment at the end of KS1 ad 2.

Improve the moderation regime to ensure that teacher assessments

are more consistent-inc. more moderation of Year 2 results in Infants

than Primaries

Schools to publish info to parents on website so the understand

about progress and attainment

Summary of reforms

A further massive change….

LEVELS HAVE BEEN REMOVED

FROM THE NATIONAL

CURRICULUM!

So…schools have the freedom to develop their own means of

assessing pupils progress towards the end of key stage expectations

New assessment systems

Assessment and targets

The Department for Education (DfE) has said that levels are not

very good with respect to helping parents to understand how

far their child is improving in real terms.

With levels removed and the focus now on raising the

achievement of every pupil, schools need to choose whatever

measure of pupil attainment and progress they feel is most

appropriate.

We believe that a whole school system that is understood by

everyone is vital. A system that enables the children to know

where on their own learning journey they are, and what they

need to do to improve. Parents, too, need to understand how

they can support their children with their next steps.

Choice of schools-how to assess

Greater freedom in choice of curriculum content

Do not know what the new progress measure will

be

More challenging expectations to meet in

relatively short space of time

Challenges of reforms

use what they know in

a range of different

situations.

Shift from levels

Teachers will be moving away from discussing

levels but more focussed looking at pupils who

are working at beginning, developing,

embedded and mastered.

We will continue to measure attainment and

progress

Our systems are being used by other schools

Beginning Can do some or all of the objectives with support

Developing Understands and can use all the objectives more

than once in directed writing tasks

Embedded Can use all of the objectives more than once

independently in their writing across subjects

Mastered Can choose to use and adapt appropriately in

more complex/broader and non-routine

situations across all areas of the curriculum.

Tracking progress over time

We will use an online date system to track pupils'

progress over time, against age-related

expectations in each subject area:

Enabling progress

The principles that underpin our new assessment

system are:

Every child can achieve: teachers at Knaphill have the

mindset, ‘What do I need to do next to enable a child

in my class to achieve?’

The National Curriculum objectives will be used as the

expectations for all children.

Children will make age appropriate progress – 12

months in 12 months.

Maths

Maths targets

Writing

1) Decoder - the actual act of reading the words on the page

2) Comprehender (Retrieve) - being able to retrieve information

from a text and knowing how the structure of the text can make

that easier

3) Reading Detective(Interpret) – the skills of inference, deduction and prediction

4) Language Lover – commenting on the writer’s use of word

choices

5) Responder (Review)– commenting on the writer’s purpose and point of view

6) Big Reader (Viewpoint)– identifying themes and justifying

views. Relating the text to its social, cultural or historical context

Reading

-Teachers will talk to you about your child’s

progress towards year end expected standards

-The end of year report will:

Give a standardised score and the terms working

towards, expected or more than expected.

e.g. working towards Year 3 expected standard or

Met Year 4 expected standard.

-In the Autumn and Spring terms, every child will be

tested and a reading age recorded

Reporting to parents

PC Hill Every time we write:

▪ We use a capital letter at the start of a

sentence and for proper nouns.

▪ We use a full stop at the end of a sentence.

▪ We add a variety of punctuation e.g ? ! , “ - : ; …….

▪ We use paragraphs to structure our writing.

▪ We use interesting vocabulary to make our

writing more exciting.

▪ We use a range of conjunctions.

▪ We proof-read our work carefully to make sure

it makes sense.

▪ We take pride in our work.

PC Hill