Education at Halfway Juniors | Halfway Junior School

Curriculum

Our curriculum approach promotes mastery of basic skills alongside competency in thinking, decision making, organising information and problem solving. We strongly belive that the ability to interact with knowledge is hugely important in shaping competence, character and growth within our pupils, ensuring they are ready to move onto and succeed within the next phase of theur education. Alongside the academic outcomes within the National Curriculum, our curriculum approach puts a strong emphasis on social learning, personal growth and community cohesion.

At Halfway Junior School we follow the National Curriculum, a course of study formulated by the Department for Education, and delivered through the 'best practice' models available, with our community in mind.

Click here for a link to National Curriculum guidelines we follow.

Intent:

Our curriculum is designed to:

Engage, excite and challenge.
Be broad, balanced and ambitious.
Build a secure knowledge base
Deliver a progression of skills across the Key Stage.
Reflect the needs and interests of the children we teach.
Has the (unknown) future in mind
Broadens horizons, informs and equips children for the wider world.
Support emotional and social competence / wellbeing.
Develop short and long-term memory so our learning becomes embedded.
Develop Culture & Science Capital.
Lead children on an aspirational journey.

Personal Development

Though our curriculum, we promote the development of each individual.

Develop as communicators and speakers
Develop as leaders
Enjoy challenges
Understand the world and contribute towards society
Appreciate and similarities and differences within our society
Understand and empathise with other's circumstances and points of view
Understand how to develop themselves, keep themselves safe, and become a life-long learner.

Curriculum Overview

Our curriculum organisation and approach is designed to provide a depth and intensity of learning to devlop an effective base of knowledge and skills, alongside opportunity to interract with the curriculm content and apply learning. Our wider curriculm approach is split over 3 phases- Discover, Explore, Create- which focus upon our driver areas of learning; History, Geography, Art and Design and Technology. The organisation and vision is set out below:

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English and Maths

	Name	Format
Files

	KS2 writing progression Mastery in writing.docx	.docx
	Progression in Reading Skills.docx	.docx
	Progression in Writing Skills.docx	.docx
	Maths Curriculum Overview.docx	.docx

Early Reading Strategy

	Name	Format
Files

	Early Reading.pdf	.pdf

History Progression

	Name	Format
Files

	History Progression Map.pdf	.pdf

Geography Progression

	Name	Format
Files

	Geography Progression Map.pdf	.pdf

Art

	Name	Format
Files

	Artist Appreciation.pdf	.pdf
	Drawing.pdf	.pdf
	Painting.pdf	.pdf
	Printing.pdf	.pdf
	Watercolour.pdf	.pdf

DT

	Name	Format
Files

	DT PROGRESSION FRAMEWORK HJS.pdf	.pdf

Religious Education

At Halfway Junior School we use the Sheffield SACRE document to support our teaching of RE. Each half term we have an RE week, where each year group studies the same faith, but with a different focus, ensuring that RE knowledge and skills are progressive across KS2.

	Name	Format
Files

	Halfway RE Overview.pdf	.pdf
	SACRE 2019.pdf	.pdf

Computing

	Name	Format
Files

	Computing Curriculum.pdf	.pdf

P.E.

	Name	Format
Files

	Progression_Map.pdf	.pdf

Music

	Name	Format
Files

	Music Progression.pdf	.pdf

Personal Development

	Name	Format
Files

	Personal Development Intent.pdf	.pdf

Science

	Name	Format
Files

	Knowledge Matrices Y16.pdf	.pdf
	Science Overview.pdf	.pdf
	Working scientifically in Y3 and 4.pdf	.pdf
	Working scientifically in Y5 and 6.pdf	.pdf