Church Street, Horningsham, Warminster, Wiltshire, BA12 7LW, Headteacher: Carole Andrews
After a review of our current provision we have refined and enhanced the curriculum with the overall aim of enabling:
Our curriculum map ensures that all aspects of the National Curriculum are covered, whilst at the same time not being overloaded with content so that the deep learning is possible and outcomes are focused on skills, application of skills, knowledge and understanding. The curriculum map serves to provide teachers with subject based focus areas from the National Curriculum. Staff can then identify the skills to focus for each curriculum area at appropriate levels for the children in their class. The overview for each class has been planned to enable teachers to combine subjects together in a cross curricular and meaningful way to make teaching and learning fun, vibrant, challenging and meaningful. Thematic based learning is now possible and practical for delivering the curriculum. | ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Rolling Programme |
There is a two year rolling programme for Woodpeckers and three year rolling programme for Owls. Robins will operate a one year rolling programme. Using these staff create a year overview set into three terms with all areas of study indicated. Teachers have the flexibility to move focus areas to facilitate their vision for thematic learning.RE is taught discretely across the school by our RE leader, using RE Discovery scheme to implement the Wiltshire Syllabus.
Curriculum Overviews |
Robins Overview | Woodpeckers Overview Cycle A | Woodpeckers Overview Cycle B | Owls Overview Cycle A | Owls Overview Cycle B | Owls Overview Cycle C |
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Mathematics |
We have had sets for Maths and worked as a whole class. This year we are working as a whole class with TAs supporting. We have developed overviews for the maths curriculum which the teaches use to plan and track progress: |
Reception | Year 1 and Year 2 | Year 3 and Year 4 | Year 5 and Year 6 |
English English is taught daily in each class, both discretely and cross curricular to provide real opportunities for learning and to use and apply skills learnt or being developed. Given the classes are mixed ages, we have created planning overviews for each class to be completed on a yearly basis. In addition we have generated an overview of fiction and non fiction to be covered across the school, identifying key poems to learn and writing genres to be covered. |
Text and Writing Overview | Y1 English Overview | Y2 English Overview | Y3 English Overview | Y4 English Overview | Y5 and Y6 English Overview |
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Phonics and Reading |
We use Read, Write Inc (RWI) to develop phonics and reading in KS1. RWI is a method of learning centred around letter sounds and phonics focusing on pure sounds and segmenting and blending. All of the staff are trained as reading teachers (including admin staff, TAs and teachers). We organise the children across Robins and Woodpeckers into however many sets are needed. Currently we have six groups with a maximum of 10 children in each set. This enables us to give focussed, individual teaching to ensure rapid progress.During the sessions the children are taught the pure sounds for all the phonemes, working progressively through Set 1, 2 and 3 sounds. We currently teach RWI four days a week with this followed up and built on in class on the other day. In addition to RWI we use Oxford Reading Tree as our main scheme for reading development from early reading to free readers. | ![]() |