Curriculum Info

Our Priorities this year - 2025-2026 are:

 

 

 

1) To further raise standards in number across the school...

Planned Actions:

• Attend Winning with Numbers course at Fenton school
• Baseline to be taken with all pupils and pupils grouped according to the results of this
• Learning activities to be planned and delivered in line with the Winning with Numbers programme
• Monitoring to be undertaken in January to assess impact and any necessary changes to be made
• Staff to ensure all resources are labelled and accessible for learners to access independently
• Use of school progression steps for planning and assessment
• All classes to ensure that the Numeracy learning wall reflects the learning.
• Ensure that correct number formation is insisted upon and one digit one box approach is clearly understood for clear mathematical work.
• Ensure that marking/feedback should takes place in the moment e.g. during focussed tasks in order for pupils to be able to respond.
• Ensure each new maths focus begins with a find out of pupils’ skills to ensure that teaching is appropriate to stage of development.
• In class modelling of good teaching and effective use of support staff
• Reasoning using real life authentic experience is further developed by teachers taking all opportunities presented by themes to implement activities.
• Use of concrete resources needs to be used consistently across the school to support pupils learning.
• Take part in Primed for Success: Ensure improvement in the learning and teaching of the five mathematical proficiencies, securing a deeper understanding of conceptual development: basic theories in mathematical education, key competencies, elements of an effective maths lesson, high-level mathematical learning and its application in problem solving.

2) Continue to develop our approach to planning for the progression and challenge of skills in and across the curriculum. Ensure that our document is consistently used as the main driver for teaching and learning across both schools...

Planned Actions:

• Attend Winning with Numbers training and introduce from September.
• Add RVE progression overview to the skills cohort trackers
• Welsh INSET led by DD – remind staff off how to use the Welsh planning system in school
•  Add Welsh progression – attain Bronze award St A Gold in Cosh Siarter Iaith
•  Add Digiden overview to the skills cohort trackers
•  Review PS1 literacy overview to ensure that age and stage appropriate
•  Use the e-parenting website to further enhance current learning and link to local and global events and only use the ones connected to topics – connected learning
•  Monitor that teachers are using the cohort trackers and that these are completed fully throughout the term
•  Ensure that new staff understand planning expectations and that all staff understand how to use the document effectively – add clarification page – look above look below
•  AOLE leads (middle leaders) to jointly monitor all AOLEs across both schools to ensure challenge and progression across all PS
•  To introduce the Enabling Pathways document and ensure it is being used effectively to drive teaching and learning in BB (St Aidan’s) and the Nursery

3) To raise standards and opportunities for Physical Health (physical literacy and physical numeracy) including more effective use of the outdoors.

Planned Actions:

• INSET DAY – Cath Delve

Aims:

To explore new options for how you run things 

To ensure that the changes that you have invested in outdoors are being utilised effectively-

To ensure that you are doing the best with what you have got

To increase the amount of time that the children spend outdoors AND to ensure that the quality of teaching and learning in the outdoors in both schools is as good as it can be

To ensure than planning is not onerous and that workload for teachers is manageable and sustainable

Further develop outside area – Seren – flooring, storage, furniture, resources, stage

• Pod/pergola – Set up as outdoor classroom – wet weather gear – hooks around the pod wellies in ikea bags– number, outdoor learning activities – three activities numeracy, literacy, creative
• Use outdoor throughout the week for learning
• Consider the way we deliver planned outdoor learning following INSET
• Ensure learning is meaningful and purposeful in all areas directly outside the classrooms
• Review external provision of Physical health
• Review provision of Physical health in PS1
• Maximise opportunities for physical literacy and physical numeracy within daily learning
• Review continuous and enhanced provision planners/Mission/Quest with an aim to add outdoor learning within it across the school
• To further develop links with the wider school community/local area in order that there is a balanced approach to the real life experiences we give the children
• INSET  to self evaluate and reflect on current practice - community links
• Look at the gaps – what are we going to do about it – missed opps – link with eparenting as well
• Visit to Best Practice school – look at ways they invite the community in and raise vital additional income

Our priorities last year on our School Development plan (2024-25) were:

 

 

 

Our Curriculum for Wales Statemen 

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Curriculum Summary For Wales  

 

At Cosheston VC School we are making good progress with the new Curriculum for Wales.  Working as part of a successful collaboration of two schools we have developed a Statement of Intent: 

• Teachers plan for stage not age of pupils.
• Theme lessons are taught in a carousel which include 1 or 2 bubble groups taught by a teacher and/or TA and 1 or 2 groups will either be directed to an independent task and/or directed to continuous or enhanced provision (missions/quests).
• Discrete maths lessons are focused on Number and Algebra
• Focused bubble task – teacher/staff led group activity with a focus on developing skills
• Independent task – pupils work on a directed independent task where they are provided with success criteria
• Missions/Quests – an independent movement group that choose from a variety of cross curricular learning experiences which provide opportunities to develop the skills taught in focussed tasks. Some of these activities are planned by the pupils.
• During the focussed bubble task both teacher and/or TA are responsible for ‘checking in’ on the independent learners ensuring that they remain on task. This means that pupils will not always have an adult working directly with them.
• Pupils working outside of the focused bubble task are not expected to disturb the focus group, and should explore all other strategies (BLP/3B4Me), unless they feel it is essential.
• Topic maths – shape/ space / measure / data handling etc will be planned through meaningful activities in theme work bubble tasks and/or missions.
• It is expected that outdoor learning is planned regularly throughout the week where appropriate e.g. in maths and also on designated Messy Monday/Fresh Air Friday.
• Staff use a blended learning approach to ensure that the pupils are prepared for any possible future school closure.

As a small school with limited numbers of staff we have found working as a triad hugely beneficial as we have been able to work collaboratively on the changes occurring throughout education such as the ALN transformation. We are now able to call on the expertise of staff across the schools and this has made planning for the 6 Areas of Learning Experience AoLEs much more robust.

 

Subjects are grouped into six Areas of Learning and Experience but this doesn’t mean an end to traditional subjects. For example, in the Humanities Area of Learning and Experience, History will still be taught but perhaps with broader context by comparing its religious and societal impact to events happening today. 
The six Areas of Learning and Experience are: 

Expressive Arts

https://hwb.gov.wales/curriculum-for-wales/expressive-arts/

Health and Well-Being

https://hwb.gov.wales/curriculum-for-wales/health-and-well-being/

Humanities

https://hwb.gov.wales/curriculum-for-wales/humanities/

Languages, Literacy and Communication (including Welsh)

https://hwb.gov.wales/curriculum-for-wales/languages-literacy-and-communication/

Mathematics and Numeracy

https://hwb.gov.wales/curriculum-for-wales/mathematics-and-numeracy/

Science and Technology (STEM)

https://hwb.gov.wales/curriculum-for-wales/science-and-technology/