The Curriculum: 

Our aim is to provide our children with an engaging, exciting and empowering curriculum that equips them for today and tomorrow.

At Hartest Church of England Primary School the curriculum is designed to:

– recognise children’s prior learning,

– provide first hand learning experiences,

– allow the children to develop interpersonal skills,

– build resilience and become creative, critical thinkers.

Every child is recognised as a unique individual. We celebrate and welcome differences within our school community. The ability to learn is underpinned by the teaching of basic skills, knowledge, concepts and values with a vision to prepare them for life beyond primary school. We constantly provide enrichment opportunities to engage learning. We believe that childhood should be a fun, happy, investigative and enquiring time in our lives, where there are no limits to curiosity and there is a thirst for new experiences and knowledge.

Underpinning everything we do are our focus on vocabulary, BLP (Building Learning Power), our Christian and British Values, as well as life skills. Our aim is to ensure that our children have the resilience to overcome barriers, are equipped to be effective learners and have the social skills to be valuable and caring members of the community.

Our curriculum is driven by ‘Big Ideas’ that run through our skills progression and by ‘Curriculum Strands’ that show progression of concepts across our history and geography curriculums.  Our Curriculum Strands also enable links to be clearly made within learning across the school.

Children leave Hartest Church of England Primary School with a sense of belonging to a community where they have the confidence and skills to make decisions, self-evaluate, make connections and become lifelong learners.

To see the MAT principles underpinning the curriculum, click here.

To see our Curriculum Vision for 2024 – 2025, click here.

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 Working Curriculum

Each term our children have a Topic.  The drivers for the topics are Geography and History and can be seen on the Curriculum Overview.

To see the Curriculum Overview, click here.

Our curriculum plans are informed by Substantive Knowledge, the knowledge that the children learn during lessons, and Disciplinary Knowledge, the progression of subject specific skills.

Our Geography and History Learning Journeys are broken down into concepts and the concepts are tracked across the curriculum.  Click here to see an example.

Our Curriculum is a working document and is being developed.

SUBJECT	LEARNING JOURNEY	SKILLS PROGRESSION
Art – Taught as a discrete subject using the Suffolk Art Scheme.	Click here	Click here
Computing – Taught as a discrete subject using the Keychain Computing Curriculum	Click here	Click here
Design Technology – Taught as a discrete subject using the DT Association Projects on a Page	Click here	Click here
French – Taught using the MAT French Curriculum	Click here	Click here
Geography	Click here	Click here
History	Click here	Click here
Music – Taught as a discrete subject using the Music Express Curriculum	Click here	Click here
PE – Taught as a discrete curriculum using the Cambridge Scheme of Work	Click here	Click here
PSHE – Taught as a discrete subject using the PSHE Association Curriculum	Click here	Click here
RE – Taught as a discrete subject using the Emmanuel Project	Click here
Science – Taught as a discrete subject using Snap Science	Click here

RSHE – Taught as a discrete subject using the Christopher Winter Project Click here

EYFS Long Term Plan – Click here

Early Reading and Phonics

At Hartest we use Read Write Inc (RWI) as our Phonic programme.  Click here for an overview of Phonics at our school.

Click here for our Reading skills progression.

We work with the Myland English Hub.

Maths

At Hartest we are developing into a Maths Mastery School.  We are working with the Angles Maths Hub and are part of the NCETM Number Mastery Programme.

Click here for an overview of Maths at our school.

Curriculum Enrichment Passport

As part of our curriculum work across the MAT, we wanted to ensure that within our schools, all children had the same opportunity to take part in a range of common experiences.  Please Click Here for information about our MAT Curriculum Enrichment Passports.

The activities have been divided between the classes.  Click on the class names to see their Class Curriculum Enrichment Passports.

Hedgehog Class                                 Squirrel Class                                         Kestrel Class

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A Guide for Parents

The new national curriculum in English Primary schools Guide, to download – Click Here