At Yew Tree Community School, we use KAPOW as a motor for delivering an engaging, knowledge-rich and progressive curriculum for a range of foundation subjects: history, geography, art and design, design technology and music.
KAPOW develops pupils’ skills and knowledge throughout their time at Yew Tree, meaning that they are ready for their next step in education. It allows our pupils to build vital cultural capital through a wide range of experiences and develop a real love of learning in these discrete subjects. KAPOW’s sequencing means our learners re-visit learning so that it can be committed to long-term memory and build key schema between their learning.
In addition to KAPOW’s curriculum, history and geography and supplemented by carefully selected bespoke case studies, which act to further broaden a pupil’s cultural capital and knowledge of historical events, people and cultures we consider important to our pupils.
At Yew Tree Community School we buy into White Rose Education to support teachers with the delivery of Maths and Science. White Rose develops pupils’ skills and subject specific knowledge, meaning that they are ready for their next step in education. The schemes allow teachers to deliver an engaging curriculum in these subject areas, which fulfils the expectations of the national curriculum.
In maths, the curriculum has a C.P.A approach and allows pupils to develop their reasoning and problem solving abilities as they aim for mastery.
In science, it allows pupils to develop their substantive knowledge connected with the subject.
The sequencing of the White Rose curriculum means our learners re-visit learning so that it can be committed to long-term memory and build key schema between their learning. The scheme also contains robust assessment opportunities, which allow teachers to assess pupils progress and convene targeted interventions where needed
Modern foreign languages (French and Spanish)*, PE, spelling* and handwriting* use Twinkl’s sequenced planning, resources and assessment to deliver an engaging curriculum in these subject areas, which fulfils the expectations of the national curriculum.
Twinkl gives pupils at Yew Tree Community School a progressive whole-school offer with skills and knowledge continually built upon. This leave pupils with a wide range of experiences, love for learning and develops vital cultural capital in them so that they progress onto their next step in education fully prepared.
*KS2 only,
PSHE is delivered at Yew Tree Community School using the JIGSAW scheme.
Jigsaw is also a carefully thought-through progressive programme with a full set of attainment descriptors and an assessment process embedded throughout. It follows a progressive whole-school approach to PSHE with layers of understanding building upon each other year after year.
Over six topics, the curriculum supports children to feel a strong sense of belonging and community and to bring learning alive through the school community and in children’s lives outside of school.
The computing curriculum at Yew Tree Community School is delivered using Purple Mash.
The sequenced scheme of learning allows progression throughout the school from Year 1 to Year 6 and teaches all of the national curriculum areas required. On line safety is taught each half-term to pupils as stand-alone lessons.
In addition, expectations for pupils’ skills and programmes they are able to use are outlined in our computing progression document, which allows pupils to practise their skills in wider curriculum areas.
At Yew Tree Community School, RE is delivered using the Oldham agreed syllabus, which aims for our pupils to grow into well informed, reflective and open adults.
There are a range of purposes for RE at Yew Tree Community School:
- Respond to challenging questions.
- Offers opportunities for personal reflection and spiritual development.
- Encourages pupils to learn from other religions.
- Enables pupils to flourish within their local and world community.
Develops pupils’ knowledge and understanding of, and their ability to respond to, Christianity, other principal world religions (Buddhists, Hindus, Jewish people, Muslims, Sikhs), other religious traditions (such as the Baha’i faith or Jainism) and world-views (such as Humanism). By exploring issues within and across faiths, pupils learn to understand and respect different religions, beliefs, values and traditions (including ethical life stances such as Humanism), and their influence on individuals, societies, communities and cultures.
