Curriculum Info

 

Our priorities this year in our School Development plan (2024-25) are:

 

 

Priority 1 Planned Actions

Literacy

• Progression in writing, reading and speaking and listening skills – create a ‘ladder’ of progression (bookmarks) from school entry level to higher level MAT Year 6. This will help staff to plan and assess standards of all areas of literacy, indicating ways of feeding forward - next steps for learning and also an assessment of learning through PPM ensuring appropriate challenge.
• Staff will create a standardised portfolio which will be used to assess against each step.
• Ensure that in provision and Mission/Quests, activities are differentiated appropriately in order that all pupils are practising skills at the right level and that MAT pupils are further challenged to make the progress they are capable of.
• Teachers to ensure that they are maximising opportunities to apply skills taught in focus tasks across the curriculum throughout the school day.
• Reading and spelling carousels to be timetabled and take place regularly throughout the week in all PS. These carousels will include handwriting, individual reading, online reading and spelling, guided reading, spelling high frequency words practice.
• Opportunities to continue to read, write and recognise sounds in provision in PS1
• Introduce a structured progression through the use of high frequency words throughout the school. These will be used in the spelling and reading carousels, as homework etc. Trackers to be used where appropriate.

Mathematics

• Progression in mathematic skills – create a ‘ladder’ of progression (bookmarks) from school entry level to higher level MAT Year 6. This will help staff to plan and assess standards of mathematics, indicating ways of feeding forward - next steps for learning, including numeracy across the curriculum and reasoning and also an assessment of learning through PPM ensuring appropriate challenge.

 Digital

•  Implement use of Digiden across the school through systematic focus sessions

 

Priority 2 Planned Actions

• Redefine roles and responsibilities across the collaboration.
• Create a more distributive structure from SLT –  through to middle leaders 
• Monitoring format to be adapted, and Middle Leaders to be given non-contact time to monitor their subjects and to then disseminate and lead the actions for improvement.
• Support staff meetings to take place in both schools weekly in order that everyone has a voice.
• Clear expectations for Middle leaders and AOLE leads – document to be produced and shared amongst all staff
• Staff to attend training to support their Professional development in each AOLE.

Priority 3 Planned Actions

• Feedback policy to be reviewed and agreed with all staff (Inset day)
• Staff to ensure that pupils use feedback sentence starters for self and peer assessment.
• Time to be built into lessons in order that feedback can take place and be responded to in order that pupils know what they have done well and what they need to do to improve

 

 

Our Curriculum for Wales Statement

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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 Triad of 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/