Information about our curriculum is available below. Also please visit our class pages for even more information include long-term plans.
Curriculum Subjects
Computing Policy
Progression Document
Scheme of Work
Knowledge Organisers
Useful Links
Support for parents and carers to keep their children safe online includes:
- Internet matters – for support for parents and carers to keep their children safe online
- London Grid for Learning – for support for parents and carers to keep their children safe online
- Net-aware – for support for parents and careers from the NSPCC
- Parent info – for support for parents and carers to keep their children safe online
- Thinkuknow – for advice from the National Crime Agency to stay safe online
- UK Safer Internet Centre – advice for parents and carers
English Policy
Writing
Reading
SPAG
Useful Websites
Intent
At St Patrick’s RC Primary School we have adopted a mastery approach for the teaching of mathematics. Underpinning this pedagogy is the belief that all children can achieve in maths. We believe in promoting sustained and deepened understanding by employing a variety of mastery strategies, with teaching for conceptual understanding at the heart of everything we do. We aim to create independent mathematicians who are well equipped to apply their learning to the wider world.
Teaching for Mastery aims to provide all children with full access to the curriculum, enabling them to achieve confidence and competence – ‘mastery’ – in mathematics, rather than many failing to develop the maths skills they need for the future.
Key features of our Maths Mastery curriculum:
- High expectations for every child
- Fewer topics, greater depth
- Number sense and place value come first
- Research -based curriculum
- Objects and pictures always before numbers and letters
- Problem solving is central
- Calculate with confidence– understand why it works
Mathematics Mastery places emphasis on the cumulative mastery of essential knowledge and skills in mathematics. It embeds a deeper understanding of maths by utilising a concrete, pictorial, abstract approach so that pupils understand what they are doing rather than just learning to repeat routines without grasping what is happening. St Patrick’s mastery curriculum I taught using the ‘White rose Maths’ scheme of learning.
Maths Policy
Useful Documents
Helping Children with Mathematics Year 5 Year 6
T M 30758 Year 6 Percentages Maths Knowledge Organiser Ver 9
T2 M 254741 Year 5 Converting Units Maths Knowledge Organiser Ver 1
T2 M 254819 Year 6 Number And Place Value Maths Knowledge Organiser English Ver 3
T M 3728 Year 6 Four Operations Maths Knowledge Organiser Ver 5
T M 3835 Year 5 Perimeter And Area Maths Knowledge Organiser Ver 5
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Our Aims
Our aims for the teaching of Religious Education are to enrich the lives of our pupils in the:
- Love of God for everyone and everything He created
- Understanding of the ‘Good News’ of the Lord, to enable ourselves and others to respond to God’s love
- Teaching of the Catholic faith
- Growth of faith by relating the Gospels to their lives and levels of understanding, linked to our Mission Statement and the Come and See programme
- Development of prayer and worship
- Awareness and respect of other faiths and cultures
Curriculum
Since its introduction to the Diocese of Nottingham in 2012, we have been following the Come and See RE programme.
Topics covered across the school are:
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Themes |
Year Groups |
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E. Y. F1 & 2. |
YEAR 1 |
YEAR 2 |
YEAR 3 |
YEAR 4 |
YEAR 5 |
YEAR 6 |
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Domestic church family |
Myself God knows and loves each one |
Families God’s love and care for every family |
Beginnings God at every beginning |
Homes God’s dream for every family |
People The family of God in Scripture |
Ourselves Created in the image & likeness of God |
Loving God who never stops loving |
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Baptism/ Confirmation belonging |
Welcome Baptism; a welcome to God’s family |
Belonging Baptism an invitation to belong to God’s family |
Signs & symbols Sign & symbols in Baptism |
Promises Promises made at Baptism
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Called Confirmation a time to renew baptismal promises |
Initiation The call to a new way of life |
Vocation & commitment Christian life Marriage / ordination |
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Advent/ Christmas loving |
Birthday Looking forward to Jesus’ birthday |
Waiting Advent a time to look forward to Christmas |
Preparations Advent; preparing to celebrate Christmas |
Visitors The coming of Jesus |
Gift God’s gift of love & friendship in Jesus |
Hope Advent; waiting in joyful hope for Jesus; the promised one |
Expectations Jesus born to show God to the world |
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Local Church community |
Celebrating People celebrate in Church |
Special people People in the parish family |
Books The books used in Church |
Journeys Christian family’s journey with Jesus |
Community life in the local Christian community: ministries in the parish |
Mission Continuing Jesus’ mission in diocese. [ecumenism] |
Sources The Bible, the special book for the Church |
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Eucharist relating |
Gathering The parish family gathers to celebrate Eucharist |
Meals Mass; Jesus’ special meal |
Thanksgiving Mass a special time for saying thank you to God for everything, especially Jesus. |
Listening & Sharing Jesus gives himself to us in a special way |
Giving &receiving Living in communion |
Memories The Eucharist the living memorial of Jesus |
Unity Eucharist enables people to live in communion. |
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Lent/ Easter giving |
Growing Looking forward to Easter |
Change Lent a time for change |
Opportunities Lent; an opportunity to start anew in order to celebrate Jesus’ new life |
Giving all Lent a time to remember Jesus’ total giving |
Self discipline Celebrating growth to new life |
Sacrifice Lent a time of giving in order to celebrate the sacrifice of Jesus |
Death & new life Celebrating Jesus’ death & Resurrection |
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Pentecost serving |
Good News Passing on the Good news of Jesus |
Holidays & holydays Pentecost: the feast of the Holy Spirit |
Spread the word Pentecost a time to spread the Good News |
Energy Gifts of the Holy Spirit |
New life To hear & live the Easter message |
Transformation Celebration of the Spirit’s transforming power |
Witnesses The Holy Spirit enables people to become witnesses |
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Reconciliation Inter-relating |
Friends Friends of Jesus |
Being sorry God helps us to choose well Sacrament of Reconciliation |
Rules Reasons for rules in the Christian family Sacrament of Reconciliation |
Choices The importance of examination of conscience Sacrament of Reconciliation |
Building bridges Admitting wrong, being reconciled with God and each other Sacrament of Reconciliation |
Freedom & responsibility Commandments enable Christians to be free & responsible |
Healing Sacrament of the Sick |
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Universal Church world |
Our world God’s wonderful world |
Neighbours Neighbours share God’s world |
Treasures God’s treasure; the world |
Special places Holy places for Jesus and the Christian community |
Difference Different saints show people what God is like. |
Stewards The Church is called to stewardship of Creation |
Common good Work of the worldwide Christian family |
Collective Worship
All classes participate in a daily act of collective worship. This may take the form of class prayers, liturgies or assemblies. This is also linked to the Statements to Live By, which are an integral part of school life, and to the Ten:Ten resources, used by staff and pupils to promote and develop whole school and class-based collective worship in an innovative and reflective way.
We celebrate achievements for Heart of Gold, Special Effort, Presentation (of self and of work) and the use of our talents, through awards from home for sports, drama, etc. Children actively lead and participate in prayers, liturgies, Masses and House Meetings, where we teach them to be responsible, reflective, aware of others and aware of God’s world; in which we are children with a voice and all have a potential to strive for good, work for a better world and always see the best in ourselves and in others.
