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Curriculum
Curriculum Intent
At Talavera Infant School, our curriculum encompasses all learning experiences that take place within school life. This includes academic learning alongside children’s social, physical, spiritual and moral development. Every child is entitled to a broad, balanced and inclusive curriculum that ensures they are supported to achieve their very best.
We are committed to equality of opportunity for all pupils, regardless of gender, race or ability. Talavera Infant School actively promotes this entitlement and has adopted Hampshire’s Equal Opportunities Policy to ensure that every child can access high-quality learning experiences and feel valued within our school community.
Our curriculum has been carefully designed with a deep understanding of the unique context of our school and the needs of the children and families we serve. We recognise and address potential barriers to learning within our community and have developed both the taught and untaught curriculum to meet these needs effectively. Through this approach, we aim to prepare all children with the knowledge, skills and attitudes they need to succeed in the next stage of their education and beyond.
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Early Years Curriculum
Our Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) curriculum is based on seven areas of learning. The three Prime Areas of Communication and Language, Physical Development, and Personal, Social and Emotional Development and the four Specific Areas of Literacy, Mathematics, Understanding the World, and Expressive Arts and Design.
Children develop communication skills through rich language experiences, speaking, and listening in a variety of situations. Physical development encourages active play, coordination, movement, and healthy lifestyle choices. Personal, social and emotional development supports children in building confidence, forming positive relationships, managing their feelings, and developing social skills.
In the Specific Areas, children begin to develop early reading and writing skills through engaging literacy activities. Mathematics focuses on counting, numbers, simple calculations, and exploring shapes and measures. Understanding the World helps children learn about people, places, technology, and the environment. Expressive Arts and Design encourages creativity through art, music, movement, role play, and exploring different materials.
Year 1 and 2 Curriculum
In Years 1 and 2, children follow the National Curriculum, which includes the core subjects of English, Mathematics and Science, alongside foundation subjects such as Art and Design, Computing, Design and Technology, Geography, History, Music, Physical Education and PSHE (including RSE). Religious Education is also taught using the Hampshire agreed syllabus, Living Difference IV.
Through these subjects, pupils develop key skills including reading, writing and mathematics, scientific enquiry, creativity, digital skills, and an understanding of the world around them. They explore the past in History, learn about places and environments in Geography, express themselves through Art and Music, and develop teamwork, coordination and confidence in Physical Education.
You can view more information about what is taught in each subject through the subject buttons below, which include our medium-term planning.
Science – Pupils are taught to ask simple questions and recognise that they can be answered in different ways, observe closely, using simple equipment, perform simple test, identify and classify, use their observations and ideas to suggest answers to questions and gather and record data to help in answering questions.
Art and Design Pupils are taught to use a range of materials creatively to design and make products,to use drawing, painting and sculpture to develop and share their ideas, experiences and imagination,to develop a wide range of art and design techniques in using colour, pattern, texture, line, shape, form and space and about the work of a range of artists, craft makers and designers, describing the differences and similarities between different practices and disciplines, and making links to their own work.
Computing – Pupils are taught to understand what algorithms are; how they are implemented as programs on digital devices; and that programs execute by following precise and unambiguous instructions, create and debug simple programs, use logical reasoning to predict the behaviour of simple programs, use technology purposefully to create, organise, store, manipulate and retrieve digital content, recognise common uses of information technology beyond school and to use technology safely and respectfully, keeping personal information private; identify where to go for help and support when they have concerns about content or contact on the internet or other online technologies.
Design and Technology – Pupils are taught, through a variety of creative and practical activities, the knowledge, understanding and skills needed to engage in an iterative process of designing and making. They should work in a range of relevant contexts (for example, the home and school, garden).
Geography – Pupils will develop knowledge about the world, the United Kingdom and their locality. They should understand basic subject-specific vocabulary relating to human and physical geography and begin to use geographical skills, including first-hand observation, to enhance their locational awareness.
History – Pupils will develop an awareness of the past, using common words and phrases relating to the passing of time. They should know where the people and events they study fit within a chronological framework and identify similarities and differences between ways of life in different periods. They should use a wide vocabulary of everyday historical terms. They should ask and answer questions, choosing and using parts of stories and other sources to show that they know and understand key features of events. They should understand some of the ways in which we find out about the past and identify different ways in which it is represented.
Music – Pupils are taught to use their voices expressively and creatively by singing songs and speaking chants and rhymes, play tuned and untuned instruments musically, listen with concentration and understanding to a range of high-quality live and recorded music and to experiment with, create, select and combine sounds using the inter-related dimensions of music.
Physical Education – Pupils are taught to, master basic movements including running, jumping, throwing and catching, as well as developing balance, agility and co-ordination, and begin to apply these in a range of activities, participate in team games, developing simple tactics for attacking and defending and to perform dances using simple movement patterns.
Religious Education-Pupils are taught about Religious Education using ‘Living Difference IV’ an agreed syllabus developed by Hampshire County Council. Living Difference IV is an approach to enquiry in religious education. It takes its starting point as an exploration, with children, of what it means to exist in and with the world. Parents have the right to withdraw their child from all or any part of RE.
Further information about the schools’ curriculum can be found on the following page.