The National Curriculum determines the content of our planning and sets attainment targets (goals) for pupils' learning. At iCAN, we base our Year 1 and Year 2 teaching programmes around the framework and guidelines of Key Stage 1, the curriculum designed for children of 5-7 years. The focus of the curriculum is to ensure that pupils develop the essential literacy and numeracy skills they need to learn; to provide them with a guaranteed, full and rounded entitlement to learning; to foster their creativity and to inspire in pupils a joy and commitment to learning that will last a lifetime. Our curriculum for Year 1 and Year 2 builds on the skills and concepts children have learned in the Early Years Foundation Stage and aims to reinforce children's previous learning, making sure they are fully prepared to move forward.

The programmes of study in the National Curriculum set out what children should be taught in each subject and provide the basis for our planning. Literacy and Mathematics are generally taught as discrete subjects on a daily basis, but classes also study 'topics' which allow a cross-curricular approach to planning and teaching. Class topics are based on a scientific, historical or geographical theme and usually last for a teaching block.

A list of the subjects taught in Key Stage One can be found in the earlier general information under the heading 'The Curriculum'. The table below gives details of the main content areas of the Literacy, Mathematics and Science curriculum at Key Stage One.

  Literacy

Speaking and Listening

·      Speaking

·      Listening

·      Group discussion and

·      Interaction

·      Drama

·      Language variation

Reading

·      Reading strategies: Phonemic awareness and phonic knowledge; word recognition and graphic knowledge; grammatical awareness; contextual understanding

·      Reading for information

·      Literature

·      Language structure

Writing

·      Composition

·      Planning and drafting

·      Punctuation

·      Spelling: spelling strategies; checking spelling

·      Handwriting and presentation

  Mathematics

Number

·      Using and applying number: Problem solving: communicating; reasoning

·      Numbers and the number system: Counting; number patterns and sequences; the    system

·       Calculations: Number operations and their relationships; mental methods

·       Solving numerical problems

·       Processing, representing and interpreting data

Shape, Space and Measures

 

·     Using and applying shape, space and measures: Problem solving; communicating; reasoning

·      Understanding patterns and properties of shape

·      Understanding properties of position and movement

·      Understanding measures

  Science

Scientific Enquiry

·     Ideas and evidence in science

·  Investigative skills: Planning; obtaining and presenting evidence; considering evidence and evaluating

Life Processes and Living Things

·       Life processes

·       Humans and other animals

·       Green plants

·       Variation and Classification

·       Living things in their environment

Materials and their Properties

·       Grouping materials

·       Changing materials

Physical Processes

·       Electricity

·       Forces and motion

·       Light and sound: Light and dark; making and detecting sounds