Curriculum Overviews
The curriculum incorporates the statutory requirements of the National Curriculum, enriched by other experiences and opportunities, to allow children to explore their place and role, both within their own and the global community. It is coherently planned and sequenced to be ambitious for all pupil groups and ensures breadth, depth and balance.
The aim of our curriculum is to instil a love of learning in our pupils enabling them to gain the requisite skills to be successful, independent and motivated learners, in readiness for their next stage of education and beyond.
Under each subject you will find a curriculum statement, which explains our vision for the subject, information on the implementation, and how the impact is measured.
Subject overviews outline the key content of each unit, from EYFS through to Year 6, and are supported by progression documents, which show how skills and knowledge develop across the year groups.
For driver subjects - History, Geography and Science - the 'Golden Threads' and Key Learning documents show how key concepts, knowledge and skills are revisited throughout the children's time at school.
If you would like more information about our curriculum, please talk to your child's teacher or contact the school office via cornwood@moorsway.devon.sch.uk.
Rolling Programmes
Lower KS2 Rolling ProgrammeUpper KS2 Rolling Programme
Art and design
“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once they grow up.” Pablo Picasso
At Moorsway, being an Artist means our children develop passion and creativity: exploring how artists think, make and design through a variety of cultures and time. We want them to be artists who are constantly observing, exploring, questioning and learning about their craft and who they are.
Art & Design Curriculum Statement
Art & Design Curricum Overview
Computing
"What a computer is to me is the most remarkable tool that we have ever come up with. It’s the equivalent of a bicycle for our minds" Steve Jobs
Technology is everywhere and will play a pivotal part in children’s lives. Therefore, we want to model and educate our children on how to use technology positively, responsibly and safely. We want our children to be creators, not consumers, and our broad curriculum encompassing computer science, information technology and digital literacy reflects this. We want our children to understand that there is always a choice with using technology and as a school we utilise technology (especially social media) to model positive use. We recognise that the best prevention for a lot of issues we currently see with technology/social media is through education. Building our knowledge in this subject will allow children to effectively demonstrate their learning through creative use of technology. We recognise that technology can allow children to share their learning in creative ways. We also understand the accessibility opportunities technology can provide for our children. Our knowledge-engaged curriculum has to be balanced with the opportunity for children to apply their knowledge creatively which will in turn help our children become skilful computer scientists. We encourage staff to try and embed computing across the whole curriculum to make learning creative and accessible. We want our children to be fluent with a range of tools to best express their understanding so that children have the independence and confidence to choose the best tool to fulfil the task, effectively preparing children for life in the twenty-first century.
Computing Curriculum Statement Computing Progression
Design and Technology
“Enjoy failure and learn from it. You can never learn from success.” James Dyson
Within the Exe Valley and Moorsway Federation, we believe that Design Technology (DT) encourages inquisition and imagination, and promotes an engagement of children who may not ordinarily enjoy practical, hands-on activities. Design Technology teaches children to be aware of the world around them, and to make rational, economic and ecological based decisions, and to understand how their decisions affect people and the environment.
In lessons, pupils explore different questions that life presents them, and develop skills and attitudes to tackle, investigate and find answers to these questions. Pupils will also work as part of a team to solve problems, and take part in class and group discussion, working through different roles, and taking on board constructive criticism. Children look at different situations around the world and consider ways in which Design and Technology could provide positive contributions and improve the quality of life.
D&T Curriculum Statement D&T Progression
English and Phonics
“THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE IS A WORK IN PROGRESS, HAVE FUN WITH IT.” JONATHAN CULVER
The Exe Valley and Moorsway Federation believes that English is at the heart of all children’s learning. Reading, writing, speaking and listening enable children to communicate purposely and creatively. English is central to children’s emotional, social and intellectual development and is crucial in underpinning life skills and all aspects of the curriculum. We believe that reading is a life skill that every child should be entitled to. We want to inspire children through books, promoting a love of reading and empowering our children to become lifelong readers. We believe that teaching a high quality English curriculum will enable our children to communicate effectively throughout their lives, accessing information and sustaining personal and professional lives with fulfilment.
Y 1/2 Writing Overview Y 3/4 Writing OverviewY 5/6 Writing Overview
Phonics
At the Exe Valley and Moorsway Federation we use Little Wandle Letters and Sounds Revised to teach phonics.
It is a complete phonics programme that draws on the latest research into how children learn best; how to ensure learning stays in children’s long term memory and how best to enable children to apply their learning to become highly competent readers.
Ofsted have identified how the Little Wandle programme has supported schools to develop a love of reading, ensure decodable texts are well-matched to children’s developing phonics knowledge and to ensure that early reading is prioritised, amongst other things!
We selected this validated scheme as we believe that it gives ALL of our pupils the best chance of success in learning to read.
We hold regular parent meetings to give you a chance to become more familiar with how we teach phonics and early reading. Look out for the dates on your school's newsletter.
There are lots of really helpful videos and resources available to you on the Little Wandle website. Please take a look.
Reception Phonics Overview Year 1 Phonics Overview
Understanding how to help with phonics
How can I support my child at home?
10 Top tips to enourage your child to read
Phonics: How to pronounce pure sounds Oxford Owl
Learn how to pronounce all 44 phonics sounds, or phonemes, used in the English language with these helpful examples from Suzy Ditchburn and her daughter. Find more phonics help on Oxford Owl
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Reading
At Exe Valley and Moorsway Federation, reading is interwoven throughout all English lessons.
In EYFS and Year 1, children are taught to read using Little Wandle Letters and Sounds Revised. Once children have completed the phonics programme, they progress on to the Little Wandle Fluency books in Year 2 until they are confident readers. From here, children are able to choose their own reading book from our school library with the support of their teacher.
In Years 2-6, children are taught reading through a Whole Class Reading Approach, using resources from Fred's Teaching. This involves reading a variety of extracts and whole texts to develop children's comprehension skills. Any children who have not successfully completed the phonics programme are taught using Little Wandle's Rapid Catch Up scheme.
Children are also exposed to a range of 'Texts That Teach' through our Book Writes programme for writing, and enjoy sharing a class story for pleasure with their teacher.
All of this is reflected in our reading progression documents.
Reading Progression EYFS Reading Progression Y1 - 6
Reading for Meaning
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