At De Beauvoir Primary School, we ensure that pupils’ education meets the needs of the new National Curriculum. Our vision is to keep the children’s needs, interests and skills for life at the heart of everything we do. To support our vision, the offer we provide for our pupils is a rich, relevant, broad and balanced curriculum. We actively teach the skills and knowledge children need in order to prepare them for life, as well as the essential attributes of resilience, communication, endurance and enquiry.
During the EYFS day, children engage in purposeful play and exploratory activities. Each day is planned to provide a range of experiences and activities that encourage independent thinking and choosing, as well as developing children’s communication and social skills when working alongside peers.
In the Foundation Stage the curriculum is made up of seven areas of learning:
The Prime areas are fundamental and work together, and move through to support development in all other areas.
The Specific areas include essential skills and knowledge for children to participate successfully in society:
We aim to increase children’s understanding and encourage them to think and to improve their language competence. We allow children to be creative, to explore and investigate materials, and to be imaginative. Through planned activities, pupils learn important early mathematical, linguistic and scientific concepts. They also acquire social skills through their interaction with others. We actively promote learning to share, to take turns and to care for others. We offer the children a variety of outdoor spaces such as their own playgrounds and the infant playground. We use these outdoor areas as an extension of the classroom, offering children experiences which support their learning in all of the areas.
In Key Stages 1 and 2 the curriculum is made up of core subjects:
Underpinning our curriculum are our core values of respect, confidence, inclusion and tenacity.
Within our curriculum, we use half-termly or termly themes for history, geography, art and design and technology. Progression is planned in so that learning builds over time, developing the children’s schema of knowledge.
Within the themes of our curriculum, the following subjects are taught:
Our ‘hidden curriculum’ provides additional opportunities for pupils to develop the school values, with access to after school clubs, sporting competitions and events, residentials, artists in residence, gardening, in-house operatic performances, theatre trips and other enrichment activities.
Subjects such as maths, Religious Education, cooking, physical education, Spanish, PHSCE and computing are taught separately from the theme itself. Science, where possible, is matched to allow for cross-curricular links to be made to the theme.
If you would like further information about the curriculum at De Beauvoir Primary School, your child’s class teacher, a senior leader or subject leader will be happy to provide further information or responses to any questions you may have.
To read more about the DfE National Curriculum, please click on the link below.
National Curriculum in Key Stage 1 & 2
Our Curriculum Newsletters outline the topics being studied in each class.
Fig Class – Curriculum Newsletter EYFS Autumn Term 2022
Beech Class – Curriculum Newsletter Year 1 & 2 Autumn Term 2022
Olive Class – Curriculum Newsletter Year 3 Autumn Term 2022
Olive Class – Curriculum Newsletter Year 4 Autumn Term 2022
Magnolia Class – Curriculum Newsletter Year 5 Autumn Term 2022
Sycamore Class – Curriculum Newsletter Year 6 Autumn Term 2022