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Our Curriculum

In September 2019 we launched our new ambitious foundation subject curriculum which aims to develop children’s knowledge and skills in a progressive way.  This is regularly reviewed and updated to ensure it is relevant to the children in our setting. 

As a maintained school we follow the 2014 National Curriculum but this has been adapted to meet the needs of our learners. A copy of the 2014 National Curriculum can be viewed here.

It is very important to us that parents are fully aware of what their child is learning. Each term we produce a curriculum newsletters which outlines the knowledge children will retain and the skills they will develop in each subject.

Market Rasen C of E Primary Curriculum Newsletters
Nettleton Community Primary Curriculum Newsletters

2 Year Cycle

As our classes are mixed age we have a two year cycle for learning. The content for each year group and year (A or B) can be found in the curriculum maps in this section of the website.


2024/25                Year B
2025/26                Year A
 

Subjects That We Teach

Each subject has a subject leader who is responsible for curriculum design, standards and  promotion of their subjects. Subject leaders work across both of our sites to share expertise and enhance capacity. At the North Wolds Federation children are taught the following subjects.
 

Subject Status	Subject	Subject Leader
Core	English (Including reading,  handwriting, spelling, punctuation and grammar .	Nichola Allerston  (Market Rasen Site)
Core	English (Phonics)	Sam Briston (Market Rasen Site)
Core	English (Writing)	Ben Kennedy  (Market Rasen Site)
Core	Mathematics	Angela Parry (Nettleton Site)
Core	Science	Michael Mullen (Market Rasen Site)
Foudation	Art and Design	Nichola Allerston (Market Rasen Site)
Foundation	Computing (Including e-safety)	Beth Marshall (Market Rasen Site)
Foundation	Design and Technology	Caroline Matthews (Market Rasen Site)
Foundation	Geography	Dena Jones (Nettleton Site)
Foundation	History	Molly Entwistle) (Market Rasen Site)
Foundation	Languages (French KS2 Only)	Danielle Callis (Market Rasen Site)
Foundation	Music	Lisa Crawford (Nettleton Site)
Foundation	Physical Education (Inc Swimming)	Daniel Toothill (Federation)
Foundation	Personal, Social and Health Education (Including Sex and Relationship Education)	Sam Watson (Nettleton Site)
Foundation	Religious Education	Sue Thompson (Market Rasen Site)

This document shows our overall theme and subject maps for our two year cycle in Key Stages One and Two. For the 2024/25 academic year we are on Year B of the cycle.

Long Term Planning Overview Year A & B

Intent, Implementation and Impact Statements

Market Rasen C of E Primary School
Nettleton Community Primary School

Ensuring the Curriculum Is Right For Our Learners

We have designed our curriculum to go beyond the expectations of the 2014 National Curriculum.  We has worked hard to ensure that it meets the needs of these learners in this community.  Throughout our curriculum we have a golden thread of school values, British values and context specific intent woven through our teaching and learning. This integral to the overall curriculum.

Context Specific Intent (Learning Themes Specific to Our Children)

As a Federation we considered what our children might need to learn due to the context in which they are growing up and learning in.  These aspects are:
 

1. Rural: Due to their environment children need to know the difference between rural and urban areas area.
2. Health: As West Lindsey has high rates of obesity children need to be taught how to be healthy now and in the future.
3. Aspiration: We want children to have high aspirations for themselves, for now and for the future.
4. Tolerance: Given the lack of diversity in West Lindsey and the high levels of anti-social behaviour in some parts of our catchment area we aim to develop children’s understanding of tolerance.
5. Diversity: As our communities are predominantly white British our children need to understand how Britain is a multi-cultural society and how this benefits and enriches society.

British Values

The British Values as defined by the Department for Education are:
 

• Respect for democracy and support or participation in the democratic process
• Respect for the basis on which the law is made and applies in England
• Support for equality of opportunity for all
• Support and respect for the liberties of all within the law
• Respect for and tolerance of different faiths and religious and other beliefs

 
These British values are threaded through our new curriculum. Whenever what is being taught can be linked to one of the values above it is as seen in the Mid Term plans.

School Values

Each of our schools has a set of key values that are important to them.  Read about those values and what they look like in real life by following the links below.

Market Rasen C of E Primary Key Christian Values

Nettleton Community Primary Key Values

Ensuring Progression

To ensure progression, each subject has a progression document which outlines which skills, knowledge and volcabulary are taught and when. An example of a progression document can be found here.

Knowledge, Skill and Vocabulary Progression Document

The Early Years Foundation Stage

The Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) is taught in Reception.

This curriculum is divided into six areas of learning which are:

• Personal, social and emotional development
• Communication, language and literacy
• Problem solving, reasoning and numeracy
• Knowledge and understanding of the world
• Physical development
• Creative development 

All of the areas of learning are equally important and taught through a mixture of direct teaching and learning through play.

Our intent statement for the EYFS, including the links to the Market Rasen Church School Vision, can be found here.

Our curriculum planning for Reception follows the interests of the learners so the contexts are not rigidly planned however teachers plan from a "menu" of carefully considered contexts to ensure and broad and balanced coverage throughout the year which ensures all of the areas of learning are delivered incorporating knowledge, skills and vocabulary. 

Our progression document for EYFS can be found here.
Our Year A Mid Term Plan for EYFS can be found here.
Our Year B Mid Term Plan for EYFS can be found here.

Key Stages One and Two

Years One and Two are known as Key Stage One.  Years Three, Four, Five and Six are known as Key Stage Two.  In Key Stages One and Two we deliver the core and foundation subjects of the 2014 National Curriculum.

Core Subjects

The core subjects of the 2014 National Curriculum are English, Mathematics and Science.

English

English Phonics 

We aim to create a love for Reading, Writing and Spelling through the consistent approach of Phonics teaching. We want every child to leave our school fluent readers and writers. Therefore, we teach reading through Little Wandle Letters and Sounds Revised, which is a systematic and synthetic phonics programme.

We use phonics as the prime teaching and learning approach to early reading and writing skills in Early Years Foundation Stage and Key Stage One and where needed we continue the teaching of Phonics into Key Stage Two.

We start teaching phonics in Reception and follow the Little Wandle Letters and Sounds Revised progression, which ensures children build on their growing knowledge of the alphabetic code, mastering phonics to read and spell as they move through school.

Our phonics teaching is supplemented by reading practice sessions from the Little Wandle scheme. This helps promote fluency and comprehension skills to coincide with their secure Phonics knowledge. This is followed by daily guided reading lessons in Year Two. Information about these lessons can be found in th reading section of this page. 

Children are given carefully chosen, fully decodable phonic appropriate books to allow them to apply their new phonological knowledge at home in their reading.
 

Our phonics intent statement, including the links to the Market Rasen Church School Vision, can be found here.

English Reading

We believe that one of our most important jobs in school is to ensure all children can read and develop a love of reading that will stay with them beyond their time at our school.

Our Reading intent statement, including the links to the Market Rasen Church School Vision, can be found here.

Children in Reception and Year One have a daily shared reading lesson. Shared reading is an interactive reading experience which occurs when a small group of children join in or share the reading of a suitably challenging book or other text whilst guided and supported by a teacher. The teacher explicitly models the skills of proficient reading including reading with fluency and expression. Shared reading will be linked to the phonics children are learning at that time.

Children in Years Two to Six have a daily guided reading lesson of at least 30 minutes based on the different skills needed to be a confident, fluent reader. We use a wide range of texts to engage, motivate and enthuse learners.

The different skills we teach include

• Retrieval of specific information
• Word knowledge and word choice
• Deductive reasoning and inference
• Answering questions using the answer, prove and explain strategy. (APE) 

We use a wide range of texts to engage, motivate and enthuse learners.

This is our weekly guided reading cycle.

English Spelling

Children in Years One to Six follow the Read, Write Inc spelling scheme. 

Our spelling intent statement , including the links to the Market Rasen Church School Vision,can be found here.

This is our Federation spelling curriculum map.

English Writing

Children in Years One to Six are taught the writing skills of composition, vocabulary, grammar and punctuation. 

Our Writing intent statement, including the links to the Market Rasen Church School Vision, can be found here.

This is our Federation writing curriculum map.

English Handwriting

Children in Years One to Six are taught the handwriting through the Cambridge University Press PenPals scheme of work.

Our Handwriting intent statement, including the links to the Market Rasen Church School Vision, can be found here.

This is our Federation Handwriting curriculum map.

English Grammar, Vocabulary and Punctuation.

Children in Years One to Six are taught grammar, vocabulary and punctuation.

Our GVP intent statement, including the links to the Market Rasen Church School Vision, can be found here.

This is our Federation GVP curriculum map.

Mathematics

The mathematics curriculum is carefully sequenced to ensure all of the following areas are covered in a progressive and coherent way.

Our Mathematics intent statement, including the links to the Market Rasen Church School Vision, can be found here.

This is our Federation Mathematics Curriculum Map for Years 1 & 2

This is our Federation Mathematics Curriculum Map for Years 3 & 4

This is our Federation Mathematics Curriculum Map for Years 5 & 6

Science

Science is taught weekly from Years One to Six.

Our Science intent statement, including the links to the Market Rasen Church School Vision, can be found here.

This is our Federation Science curriculum map.

 

Foundation Subjects

The Foundation subjects we deliver include Art and Design, Computing, Design and Technology, Geography, History, Languages, Music, PSHE including SRE and Religious Education.

Art and Design

Our Art and Design intent statement, including the links to the Market Rasen Church School Vision, can be found here.

This is our Federation Art and Design curriculum map.

Computing

We use a scheme from the National Centre for Computing Education (NCCE) to deliver high quality computing lessons. 

Our Computing intent statement, including the links to the Market Rasen Church School Vision, can be found here.

This is our Federation Computing curriculum map.

We have a comprehensive scheme of work for E-Safety that can be found here.

Design and Technology

Our Design and Technology intent statement, including the links to the Market Rasen Church School Vision, can be found here.

This is our Federation Design and Technology curriculum map.

Geography

Our Geography intent statement, including the links to the Market Rasen Church School Vision, can be found here.

This is our Federation Geography curriculum map.

History

Our History intent statement, including the links to the Market Rasen Church School Vision, can be found here.

This is our Federation History curriculum map.


Languages

Our Languages intent statement, including the links to the Market Rasen Church School Vision, can be found here.

This is our Federation Languages curriculum map


Music

We use the award winning Charanga music scheme as recommended by LCC Music Service.

Our Music intent statement, including the links to the Market Rasen Church School Vision, can be found here.

This is our Federation Music curriculum map.
 

Personal, Social and Health Education including Sex and Relationships Education

We use the Jigsaw PSHE and RSE Scheme however this is supplemented due to our context specific intent.

Our PSHE and SRE intent statement, including the links to the Market Rasen Church School Vision, can be found here.

This is our Federation PSHE and SRE curriculum map.

Within PSHE we teach children about the Protected Characteristics within 2010 Equalities Act. This document outlines how and when we teach these. 

Our teaching of S.R.E is fully compliant. This document outlines how we cover all aspects of S.R.E 

Physical Education

Our P.E intent statement, including the links to the Market Rasen Church School Vision,  Can be found here.

This is our Federation P.E curriculum map.
 

Religious Education
 

We follow the Lincolnshire Locally Agreed Syllabus however this is supplemented with additional units.

Our R.E intent statement, including the links to the Market Rasen Church School Vision, can be found here.

This is our Federation R.E curriculum map.
 

Social, Moral, Cultural and Spiritual Learning and Personal Development 
 

SMSC is carefully planned across the currciulum and developed thorugh the wider curriulum and thought the many roles and responsiblities our children enjoy.  The following document outlines all of the opportunities for SMSC and PD.

SMSC and PD at the North Wolds Federation

Other Learning Opportunities

Newsround

To develop children’s knowledge and understanding of the world and to help them keep up to date with important, age appropriate, world events the children watch Newsround regularly. After they have watched BBC Newsround the teacher will go through some of the new vocabulary that might have come up in that episode.  Children or teachers will locate where things are happening on the world maps that are in every classroom to develop geographical place awareness. This supports our context specific intent of tolerance and diversity. To see what our children watch visit BBC Newsround.
 

Active Mile

To improve physical and mental health benefits our children have the opportunity to run for ten minutes a few times a week. Over the year this provides children with many extra hours of aerobic exercise in addition to their twice weekly PE or swimming lesson. This supports our context specific intent of health.
 

Cooking in the Curriculum

Each term every child in the school learns to cook something that links with one of their foundation subjects.  This supports our context specific intent of health.

This is our Federation Cooking in the curriculum map.