The Key Stage 1 Curriculum Overview

This model illustrates how the Key Stage 1 curriculum at Headington Prep supports our aim to equip pupils to be future ready. At the heart of all we do, the pupils’ wellbeing is paramount. The curriculum supports the development of happy, healthy, well-balanced individuals for example through our PSHE programme, sport provision and dedicated library sessions. The development of Literacy, Numeracy and Digital literacy skills is a core part of pupils’ learning throughout Key Stage 1 with daily Literacy and Numeracy lessons. The Read Write Inc (RWInc) programme incorporates daily Phonics lessons in Year 1 and then in Year 2, the RWInc Spelling programme. The use of good quality books and texts supports and enables a love of reading and is the stimulus for developing children as writers. The 'My Mastery' Maths scheme ensures a secure and methodical development of understanding from pictorial through to abstract. It ensures depth of a conceptual understanding so pupils are able to apply their knowledge and skills to the most challenging of maths problems even at an early age. Digital literacy is about developing the skills, knowledge, and confidence to understand the digital world in which we live. In both their school and personal life, they will use technology to develop solutions to problems and critically evaluate emerging applications and technologies. This is why we have chosen to make this part of our future ready curriculum. The broader curriculum subjects are taught through a range of exciting and engaging topics drawn from The Cornerstones creative curriculum. This also provides rich opportunities for pupils to apply and deepen their core, essential skills. Cornerstones offers all children a memorable experience at the start of every topic, and promotes problem solving, creativity and communication. It then follows the stages Engage, Develop and Innovate, allowing children to learn within a coherent and progressive framework promoting innovation and entrepreneurialism and enabling children to reflect on and evaluate their learning. Our learning habits are drawn from an established model for creative thinking and our curriculum will provide rich opportunities for pupils to regularly practice the essential creative thinking skills of Imagining, Questioning, Collaborating, Persevering, and Reflecting. They will also afford opportunities to develop the quality of compassion, especially with kindness as one of our core values.