including: English writing, Music, Art & Design, MFL
We embrace and integrate the creative communication strands to develop more complete children who have curious minds and think critically.
The arts are essential in life. They can shape and define who we are.
Our team plan carefully to support our pupils’ expanding vocabulary, ability to use visual media and ability to create music through our curriculum.
Oracy strategies are planned for, and develop spoken and written communication in all subjects. Our Creative Communication Strand enables the visual and aural skills to flourish.
Handwriting Skills Progression YR-6
We help our children to feel four things when they write and mark make: joy, purpose, autonomy and magic.
MFL
We follow Kapow’s Spanish scheme of work which aims to instill a love of language learning and an awareness of other cultures. We want pupils to develop the confidence to communicate in Spanish for practical purposes, using both written and spoken Spanish.
Through our scheme of work, we aim to give pupils a foundation for language learning that encourages and enables them to apply their skills to other languages, facilitates further language study and opens future opportunities to study and work abroad.
Kapow’s Primary Spanish scheme of work supports pupils to meet the National Curriculum end of Key stage 2 attainment targets (there are no Key stage 1 attainment targets for languages). The Kapow Primary Spanish curriculum aims to provide pupils with a firm foundation of language learning.
For this reason, we have carefully planned and sequenced when to teach the three building blocks of a language system, known as Kapow Primary knowledge strands:
● Phonics
● Vocabulary
● Grammar
Pupils connect these building blocks of knowledge to create meaning in a variety of contexts, allowing them to develop their skills in the following strands:
● Language comprehension: listening and reading
● Language production: speaking and writing
