Bransgore Church Of England Primary School

Our curriculum for English aims to ensure that all pupils:

• Develop the habit of reading widely and often, for both pleasure and information.

• Acquire a wide vocabulary, an understanding of grammar and knowledge of linguistic conventions for reading, writing and spoken language.

• Appreciate our rich and varied literary heritage.

• Write clearly, accurately and coherently, adapting their language and style in and for a range of contexts, purposes and audiences.

• Use discussion in order to learn; they should be able to elaborate and explain clearly their understanding and ideas

• are competent in the arts of speaking and listening, making formal presentations, demonstrating to others and participating in debate. Click here to find out more.

Maths

Our curriculum for mathematics aims to ensure that all pupils:

• Become fluent in the fundamentals of mathematics, including through varied and frequent practice with increasingly complex problems over time, so that pupils have conceptual understanding and are able to recall and apply their knowledge rapidly and accurately to problems.

• Reason mathematically by following a line of enquiry, conjecturing relationships and generalisations, and developing an argument, justification or proof using mathematical language.

• Can solve problems by applying their mathematics to a variety of routine and non-routine problems with increasing sophistication, including breaking down problems into a series of simpler steps and persevering in seeking solutions. Click here to find out more.  Here is a link to our Maths Calculation Policy which shows the calculation methods used at Bransgore School together with links to Hampshire County Council's Progression in Calculation - Addition & Subtraction & Progression in Calculation - Multiplication & Division booklets for further expansion.

  Click here to see the National Curriculum programme of study for Maths

Science 

At Bransgore Primary School, we teach science through ‘Big Questions’ which allows the children to make links and connections between the science that they study throughout their time at school, building a rich body of knowledge. Science is taught using an approach where the children are encouraged to use the substantive knowledge they acquire during their learning to develop their own scientific questions and use their disciplinary knowledge to help them collect and evaluate scientific evidence to help them answer these. In the Early Years we use our big ‘Why’ book and ask the children what they want to find out then give them the resources to try and find out the answers through exploration and investigation. In Key Stage 1, the topics are used to generate scientific questions and investigation. The children are encouraged to answer these in different ways:

• Experiencing and exploring the world around them

• Asking questions based on the exploration

• Considering how they could find the answers to their questions

• Collecting evidence to answer the questions

• Explaining their findings

In Key Stage 2 the children’s scientific knowledge of the world is broadened further by exploring, talking about, testing and developing ideas about everyday phenomena and the relationships between living things and familiar environments. They also start conducting a range of different types of scientific enquiries: 

• Observing changes over time

• Seeking patterns

• Identifying, classifying and grouping things

• Researching using secondary sources

• Comparative and fair testing

   

Click here to see the the Bransgore Science Curriculum Road Map

Click here to see the National Curriculum programme of study for Science