A creative curriculum Our ‘Creative Curriculum’ encompasses a knowledge & skills-based approach to learning through Geography, History, Art and Design Technology a whilst consolidating core areas. Underpinning the combination of skills and knowledge is also the over-arching aims of each subject’s National Curricular aims, for example, in History: • know and understand the history of these islands as a coherent, chronological narrative, from the earliest times to the present day: how people’s lives have shaped this nation and how Britain has influenced and been influenced by the wider world • know and understand significant aspects of the history of the wider world: the nature of ancient civilisations; the expansion and dissolution of empires; characteristic features of past non- European societies; achievements and follies of mankind • gain and deploy a historically grounded understanding of abstract terms such as ‘empire’, ‘civilisation’, ‘parliament’ and ‘peasantry’ • understand historical concepts such as continuity and change, cause and consequence, similarity, difference and significance, and use them to make connections, draw contrasts, analyse trends, frame historically-valid questions and create their own structured accounts, including written narratives and analyses • understand the methods of historical enquiry, including how evidence is used rigorously to make historical claims, and discern how and why contrasting arguments and interpretations of the past have been constructed • gain historical perspective by placing their growing knowledge into different contexts, understanding the connections between local, regional, national and international history; between cultural, economic, military, political, religious and social history; and between short- and long-term timescales. Subjects such as Geography, History, Music, Art and Design, Design and Technology and Computing are taught through a creative, purposeful and skills & knowledge based approach to learning. Each year group plans for each subject area and may use topics or projects to ensure National Curriculum coverage. Using Knowledge Grids at the start of each lesson the teacher will consider prior and future learning, this method of teaching ensuring that there is good subject progression from EYFS to Year 6. Within each topic – each National Curriculum subject has a discrete and clear place that pupils understand well. Parents are given information about each subject area, the topics covered, the skills taught and the learning experiences through a termly 'Curriculum Information Leaflet'. This is also uploaded to the website and the class pages. Topics or projects may begin with a fun, engaging or memorable experience (a ‘hook') which leads to a 'real and purposeful' outcome. Memorable experiences are provided at the start of a topic to engage and inspire the children, this may be an in-school activity, visitors or an educational visit. Events may include exhibitions, school productions, a local theatre performance, class activity, or a product to be marketed, shared with parents, staff, governors and the wider community.
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