The Cornerstones curriculum is a creative and thematic approach to learning which is linked to the current national curriculum. This, together with Anlaby’s detailed skills curriculum documents, which include essential age related skills to track pupil’s progress, ensures comprehensive coverage of national expectations.
We believe that children learn better when they are encouraged to use their imagination and apply their learning to engaging contexts. Our curriculum therefore provides lots of learning challenges throughout the academic year, which will require children to solve problems, apply themselves creatively and express their knowledge and understanding effectively across the curriculum.
The following links are available for further details:
https://cornerstoneseducation.co.uk/why-cornerstones/
https://www.gov.uk/national-curriculum/overview
Curriculum Overview 2020/21
To find a copy of our long and medium term plans click on the links below.
Termly Topic Outlines
Autumn
Year 1 - Moon Zoom. Paws, Claws and Whiskers.
Year 2 - Magnificent Monarchs. Movers and Shakers.
Year 3 - Tribal Tales. Tremors.
Year 4 - Burps, Bottoms and Bile. Misty Mountains, Winding River.
Year 5 - Stargazers. Alchemy Island.
Year 6 - A Child's War
Mathematics
Mathematics at Anlaby is taught as a discrete subject following the objectives of the National Curriculum. Where links between mathematics and the current topic are obvious maths is taught as part of the curriculum to reinforce skills and concepts already learned through our discrete lessons. For further details click on the link below.
English at Anlaby Primary School
At Anlaby Primary School we believe English has a pre-eminent place in education and in society. A high-quality education in English will teach pupils to speak and write fluently so that they can communicate their ideas and emotions to others and through their reading and listening, others can communicate with them. Through reading in particular, pupils have a chance to develop culturally, emotionally, intellectually, socially and spiritually. Literature, especially, plays a key role in such development. Reading also enables pupils both to acquire knowledge and to build on what they already know. All the skills of language are essential to participating fully as a member of society.
Aims within the English Curriculum
The teaching of English at Anlaby Primary School aims to help pupils become fluent in reading, writing and communicating through speaking and listening.
These aims will be met in the context of English lessons as well as through cross-curricular teaching and will involve children developing:
There are four aspects of study for English at key stage 1 and 2, these are:
Speaking and listening
By the end of the Foundation Stage children will have:
By the end of key stage 1 children will be able to:
By the end of key stage 2 children will be able to:
Reading
As a school, we have chosen the Read, Write Inc approach to early phonics development. For further information click here.
We are continuing to develop a system of whole class guided reading, with differentiated activities to meet the needs of all pupils within the class and wherever possible link good quality class texts to our writing genres. In earlier year groups, where sometimes whole class guided reading is not practicable, group guided reading is used to facilitate learning and progression. All year groups use a variety of different reciprocal reading activities linked to the appropriate content for individual year groups, for example prediction skills, summarising, retrieval and inference skills, context skills and dictionary skills etc. To support this, in each classroom we are continuing to develop the use of the ‘VIPERS’ reading skills prompts.
Vocabulary Find and explain the meanings of words in context.
Infer Make and justify inferences using evidence from the text.
Predict Predict what might happen from the details given and implied.
Explain Explain how content is related and contributes to the meaning as a whole. Explain how meaning is enhanced through choice of language. Explain the themes and patterns that develop across the text. Explain how information contributes to the overall experience.
Retrieve Retrieve and record information and identify key details from fiction and non-fiction
Summarise Summarise the main ideas from more than one paragraph.
All pupils across the school have the opportunity to change their own home reading books regularly and there are daily opportunities for whole class reading, either as individuals or by sharing a class text. Children in Foundation Stage have home reading books that are matched to their phonics ability. Children are also widely encouraged to read other books that they enjoy reading both at home and in school.
Children in Foundation Stage and Key Stage 1 follow the Read Write Ink programme to support their reading, with the Letters and Sounds programme being used as an additional resource.
Writing
Our curriculum is based around a topic based approach and therefore cross-curricular writing is embedded within the writing ethos at Anlaby Primary School. When writing, all pupils are encouraged to apply their knowledge of content, grammar, punctuation, spelling and handwriting across all areas of the curriculum, including science, history and geography.