Curriculum

The Brooklands Curriculum

The school is determined to ensure it continues to develop well-rounded, articulate, confident and high –achieving children. Our curriculum design develops and strengthens the generally high starting points that our children have when they enter school. The curriculum provides clear opportunities to develop the children’s knowledge and ensures that they apply this to deepen their understanding. The curriculum is very successful as our pupils leave Year 6 as articulate and well-rounded individuals where attainment at Greater Depth is often twice or sometimes almost three times the national average.

Our curriculum ensures that there is a much greater emphasis on the ‘powerful knowledge’ that children need in order to not only truly understand concepts, but also to enable them to apply the knowledge, offer informed explanations, make links and spot patterns. Crucially, it will also provide them with the essential foundations for the next part of their educational journey and beyond.

On this page you will find further details of the curriculum at Brooklands. In addition to the links below our Prospectus contains a significant amount of information about our curriculum, including reading scheme and phonics teaching information.

Phonics and Reading

Phonics lessons within the Foundation Stage and Key Stage 1 are delivered using the Little Wandle Programme –

https://www.littlewandlelettersandsounds.org.uk

A range of reading schemes are used throughout the school - Collins, Rigby Star and Pearson

British Values

The Department for Education has published guidance on the role of schools in promoting British Values. The link below indicates how Brooklands meets this requirement.

Promoting British Values

Our Curriculum

Our Intent, Implementation and Impact:

The Brooklands Curriculum

Knowledge Organiser letter for parents - July 2019

Six by Six -Our Curriculum Enrichment pledge can be accessed here

Cultural Capital at BPS

Early Years - Nursery and Reception

Curriculum Overview

Key Stage 1 & Key Stage 2

Mathematics:

Click on each term for full details:

Year 1

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	Summer	.pdf
	Autumn	.pdf

Year 2

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	Summer	.pdf
	Autumn	.pdf
	Spring	.pdf

Year 3

	Name	Format

	Autumn	.pdf
	Spring	.pdf
	Summer	.pdf

Year 4

	Name	Format

	Summer	.pdf
	Autumn	.pdf
	Spring	.pdf

Year 5

	Name	Format

	Spring	.pdf
	Summer	.pdf
	Autumn	.pdf

Year 6

	Name	Format

	Autumn	.pdf
	Summer	.pdf
	Spring	.pdf

Calculation Policy:

Mathematics - Calculation Policy

English:

We follow the National Curriculum objectives for English, with each year group teaching these objectives through a variety of different class novels and a range of different writing genres.

Key Stage One Long Term Plan

Lower Key Stage 2 Long Term Plan

Upper Key Stage 2 Long Term Plan

We teach pre-cursive handwriting from Reception onwards to enable the children to learn the correct letter formation and joins from the beginning. We aim for all children to be using cursive handwriting by the end of Year 2 and to begin to develop their own handwriting style throughout Key stage 2.

Handwriting script

Curriculum Overviews

Click the links below for detailed curriculum information:

Each topic has specific Geography and History enquiry questions that are focused on:

Enquiry Questions

Knowledge Organisers