Curriculum
At Harrington Junior School we use a challenge curriculum approach where pupils are encouraged to ask questions to shape their learning. The aim is to foster proactive learning, a love of learning and a chance to link learning and skills in order to achieve success.
Our curriculum is broad and balanced, designed to give our pupils a twenty-first century education and equipping them with skills and attributes such as resilience and independence in order to allow them to grow into becoming active, positive citizens.
Our pupils have:
- the opportunity to learn independently and with others
- opportunities to take on different roles for learning
- the right to participate in their learning and to ask questions to explore and guide their learning
- time to apply skills in literacy, maths and IT to other subjects
- the requirement to listen to others and to be respectful at all times
- the right to be safe, healthy and valued as individuals
We believe our curriculum should be progressive to build upon the skills the children acquire through their learning. We use a creative challenge curriculum approach encouraging pupils to ask questions to expand their interest and understanding. We overtly link learning - across the year group and as pupils move throughout the school. This provides a broad, deep and relevant learning process.
Our key learning skills are:
- communication
- listening
- teamwork and leadership
- creativity
- problem solving
- presenting our learning
- staying positive, aiming high
Our curriculum statement
What does your child learn at school each day? Find information about our curriculum subjects here.
You can find the objectives for Maths and English listed in under the 'Children' Tab, Class Page. It also includes home learning support, a gallery to show the lessons and ideas for creative and active learning. Why not have a go?
This term's curriculum overview
Curriculum overview
Curriculum booklets
PSHE and RSE
From September 2020, primary schools in England are required to teach Social, Relationships and Health Education as compulsory subjects and the Department for Education strongly recommends this should also include age-appropriate Sex Education – we will be teaching this following a variety of resources and materials. These materials will be available to view and discuss with staff should you have any concerns. We link this with our PSHE work.
Relationships & Sex Education
There are four main aims of teaching RSE:
• To enable children to understand and respect their bodies
• To help children develop positive and healthy relationships appropriate to their age and development
• To support children to have positive self-esteem and body image
• To empower them to be safe and safeguarded.
Each year group will be taught appropriate to their age and developmental stage. At no point will a child be taught something that is inappropriate; and if a question from a child arises and the teacher feels it would be inappropriate to answer, (for example, because of its mature or explicit nature), this information with be shared with you by your child’s class teacher. The question will not be answered to the child or class if it is outside the remit of that year group’s programme.
Below is a summary of RSE coverage within the Jigsaw scheme for each year group:
• Year 3 - How babies grow and how boys’ and girls’ bodies change as they grow older, body parts
• Year 4 - Body changes including menstruation
• Year 5 - Puberty for boys and girls, menstruation and conception
• Year 6 - Puberty for boys and girls and understanding conception to birth of a baby
The aim of our teaching is to help our children to learn to respect themselves and others and to move with confidence from childhood through adolescence into adulthood and to develop happy, healthy and safe relationships
PSHE and RSE
The curriculum in action!
Term 4
