Mathematics
We use the White Rose Maths Scheme of work and associated resources to create maths lessons that meet all national curriculum guidelines in a fun, inclusive and age-appropriate way.
The material is designed to support primary children as they have fun with maths as they learn the essential foundations for a life long mathematical understanding of concepts such as times tables, the four operations (addition, subtraction, multiplication and division), basic decimals and fractions, percentages and the number system.
Mathematical fluency is also taught explicitly so that our children can use their skills to know the best way to figure out a maths problem and make connections between key concepts.
English
English is a core subject and is at the heart of our curriculum. Each project covers a range of reading and writing genres and, where appropriate, links to other areas of the curriculum. Spoken language is promoted throughout the curriculum and across all subjects.
Writing
We have adopted “The Write Stuff” by Jane Considine to bring a whole school approach to the mechanics of writing. We use “Sentence Stacking” to engage children with short, intensive moments of learning that they can then immediately apply to their own writing. Each writing lesson is based on a sentence model, broken into three chunks:
1. Initiate section – a stimulus to capture the children’s imagination and set up a sentence.
2. Model section – the teacher close models a sentence that outlines clear writing features and techniques.
3. Enable section – the children write their sentence, following the model.
Children are challenged to ‘Deepen the Moment’ which requires them to draw upon previously learnt skills and apply them to their writing during that chunk.
GRAMMAR AND PUNCTUATION
“The Write Stuff” also reinforces grammar through the use of:
· The FANTASTICS which are an acronym that summarise the ideas of writing.
· The GRAMMARISTICS is a classroom tool that enables the teacher to drive key grammar messages.
· The BOOMTASTICS , which helps children, capture 10 ways of adding drama and poetic devices to writing in a vivid visual way.
· Punctuation is taught through the “non-negotiables” of the Writing Laundry and the Grammaristics so that children never forget to clean up their writing.
We use the Jane Considine spelling and scheme and the Emile Spelling Scheme.
Spelling 
https://emile-education.com/ We use Emile spelling which is a comprehensive, progressive and detailed scheme for teaching and learning spelling effectively.
We also use Emile for teaching of grammar and punctuation https://emile-education.com/grammar/
Handwriting 
Nelson Handwriting is a whole-school programme designed to help all children develop a confident, legible and personal handwriting style and meet higher curriculum expectations.
Science
Science programmes of study in the national curriculum are assigned to year groups. The science projects are sequenced to develop both children’s substantive and declarative knowledge, and if possible, make meaningful links to other projects. For example, in Year 3, the projects Plant Nutrition and Reproduction and Light and Shadows are taught alongside the design and technology project Greenhouse and the art and design project Beautiful Botanicals. These links allow for children to embed their substantive knowledge in new and often real-life contexts. The sequencing of projects ensures that children have the substantive knowledge and vocabulary to comprehend subsequent projects fully. Each project’s place in the year has also been carefully considered. For example, projects that involve growing plants or observing animals are positioned at a suitable time of year to give children the best possible opportunity to make first-hand observations. Within all the science projects, disciplinary knowledge is embedded within substantive content.
Religious Education and World Views
Religious Education and World Views is a statutory part of the curriculum and a core subject. We follow the locally agreed syllabus, using The Emmanuel Project. The principal aim of Religious Education and World Views in Dorset is to engage pupils in enquiring into big questions arising from the study of religion, belief, philosophy and ethics. In so doing Religious Education and World Views will support pupils’ own personal moral, philosophical, ethical and spiritual development and promote respect for others.
The Emmanuel Project resource ensures our teaching of Christianity and other World Beliefs is comprehensive and rigorous. It follows an enquiry cycle based around Big Questions.
1) Engage with the key concept in their own lives/World.
2) Enquire into an aspect which relates to the key concept.
3) Explore and understanding of the key concepts through three areas – text or narrative, community practice and living.
4) Evaluate – assessment and showcase their learning.
Clink on the link below to see our long-term plan.
Emmanuel Project Long Term Plan
SMTV-long-term-plan.pdf
Safety, Caring, Achievement, Resilience and Friendship
We use SCARF for our whole school approach to develop children’s health and well being through PSHE. This scheme meets the Relationships Education and Health Education statutory requirements.