1. Milton park primary school
Our Curriculum Vision
Milton park primary school

2. Milton Park primary school
Our vision at Milton park is to provide a memorable, ambitious and creative curriculum for all children. In partnership with the school community, we will provide children with exciting experiences and opportunities that will inspire a love of learning and allow children to challenge their thinking and learn together in order to become a future citizens of the world.
Curriculum Statement
Milton Park primary school

3. Our Curriculum Vision Our Curriculum is: Learning Together
Exciting Experiences
Memorable
Citizens of the Future
Love of Learning
Challenging
Our Curriculum Vision
Milton Park Primary School

4. Our Curriculum Vision Our Curriculum develops: Life Long Learners
Confident, caring young people
Resilience and Tolerance
Community links
Children’s interests and talents
Our Curriculum Vision
Milton Park Primary School

5. Our Curriculum Vision Our Curriculum includes:
Exciting, engaging topics
A strong emphasis on PSHE and emotional wellbeing to prepare children for life
A wide variety of sports activities
Dedicated arts weeks, which include range of activities linked to the arts and the community
Immersive hook days and celebrations of learning involving parents
Child-led Learning
Time for critical thinking and to deepen learning
Topic linked reading texts and exciting opportunities to develop the love of reading
Challenges linked to national events
Making use of outdoor opportunities to promote links within the wider community
Our Curriculum Vision
Milton Park Primary School

6. Our Curriculum Vision We aim for our pupils to become:
Happy, enthusiastic learners
Healthy, positive and active children both physically and mentally
Employable, resilient and knowledgeable pupils ready for our modern world
Well-rounded citizens with a clear understanding of values such as respect, responsibility and friendship.
Our Curriculum Vision
Milton Park Primary School

7. National Curriculum
What does the curriculum look like at Milton Park primary school?

8. The National Curriculum
Our National Curriculum is broken down into Core subjects and Foundation subjects:
English
Maths
Reading
Science
Foundation
English is taught daily and includes all writing skills. This is heavily linked with reading.
Maths is taught daily and develops children’s problem solving skills and well as their fluency and reasoning.
Reading is taught daily and includes all reading skills. In KS1 this is focussed on decoding and is KS2 reading is focussed on comprehension.
Science is taught on a weekly basis and includes how to work scientifically. Children complete investigations regularly.
This includes:
Art
Music
Computing
History
Geography RE
PSHE PE
If you wish to know more about each of these subjects in relation to your child’s year group, please visit the relevant area on the website.

9. Core Subjects
These are taught daily and are the basis for the Year 2 and Year 6 SATS papers. These subjects are given the more weighting when assessing children.
Reading
Maths
English
Reading includes both decoding (being able to read the words) and comprehension (being able to understand what has been read).
Maths includes both arithmetic (number problems) and reasoning (more complex maths problems). As a school, we follow the Maths Mastery approach.
English includes both writing and GPS (Grammar, punctuation and spelling).

10. Foundation Subjects
These are generally taught on a weekly basis and are not currently formally assessed by the Government. These subjects are vital to our broad and balanced curriculum.
Science
Foundation
RE & PSHE
Science includes a range of subject matter and teaches children how to work scientifically. Lessons are often practical and provide opportunity for experimentation.
These are taught weekly, depending on the current topic. Music, Computing and Art are taught as part of our PPA provision by specialist teachers who are experts in their subject.
RE is taught in a block at the end of each topic and helps to promote cultural knowledge and British Values. PSHE/SEAL is taught weekly and develops our children’s ability to be life long learners.

11. The Learning journey
What does the learning journey look like at Milton Park primary school?

12. Outcome Project/Celebration of Learning
Our Learning Journey
Hook
Teaching of Skills
Outcome Project/Celebration of Learning
At the beginning of each topic, each year group will have an immersive hook day. This could be a dress up day, a trip or a workshop in school. Our hook days are designed to inspire our children to be curious about their next topic subject and promote enthusiasm in the coming lessons.
During this time, teachers will plan memorable, challenging lesson to teach the national curriculum skills of this subject. Where applicable, these lessons will be linked to the overall topic subject. However, in some cases it will be more appropriate to teach these subjects discretely. Activities will give children the opportunity to express their creativity and will be recorded in their topic books.
Each topic will have a project that the children will be working towards over as number a weeks. In most cases, this will be cross-curricular and develop a number of skills in a range of subjects. This project will then be celebrated on display boards and through a special topic event which involves staff, children and parents.