Curriculum
Our curriculum has been designed specifically to meet the needs of our local community, ensuring that we develop the whole child.
Our Curriculum Intent
Curriculum Overview
For each year group we map out how we will cover the National Curriculum for each subject along with which trips will support and enhance children's learning.
Click on the links at the bottom of the page to view our curriculum for each year group.
Our Learning and Life Experiences
At Purford Green we believe that every child should have amazing childhood experiences, ones they will remember for life. Throughout their time with us children at Purford Green are offered the chance to take part in our 65 learning and life experiences, these are:
- Jump in muddy puddles
- Receive a parcel
- Be transported to another world
- Bake a cake
- Make a mud pie
- Run through a garden bare foot
- Find treasure
- Have a picnic
- Work with a senior citizen
- Hunt for bugs
- Watch a chick hatch
- Bring up a butterfly
- Build a sand and shell sculpture
- Paddle in the sea
- Skim stones
- Visit a castle where real Kings and Queens have lived
- Make a house for an animal
- Be a weather reporter
- Watch a West End show
- Visit a zoo
- Feed an animal
- Hold a scary creature
- Learn a new language
- Learn a song in sign language
- Visit some ruins
- Be a film producer
- Be a book publisher
- Ride the train
- Discover the landmarks of London
- Experience life from a time in the past
- Discover what is in a pond
- Go birdwatching
- Visit a museum
- Visit an art gallery
- Experience 3D art
- Go star gazing
- Experience secondary school
- Camp out in the wild
- Sing songs around a camp fire
- Go on a nature walk at night
- Make and fly paper aeroplanes
- Visit a place of worship
- Float along a river (year 5 water based activities – rafting/kayaking
- Find your way with a map and compass
- Take part in a team building activity
- Have a speaking part in a play
- Eat a meal in a restaurant
- Navigate your way around London underground
- Be a geocacher
- Talk to professionals from a range of industries
- Visit the home of Shakespeare’s plays
- Go on a trip away for more than two nights
- Have a story published
- Be a photographer
- Ride a rollercoaster
- Hold a position of responsibility in the school
- Do something for charity
- Join a school club
- Perform at the O2
- Attend and watch a sporting event
- Take part in a talent show
- Spend time with other primary children from a different school
- Make something and sell it
- Plant it, grow it, eat it
- Try foods from around the world
Life Skills
At Purford Green we believe every child needs to have a set of core skills that will help them to be independent in every day life. To support this we have Life Skill Challenges which are:
Reception
- I can say please and thank you
- I can dress myself on my own and look after my own belongings
- I can use the toilet and wash my hands after
- I can blow my own nose
- I can use cutlery to eat
- I can show I am sorry
- I can write my own name
- I can name healthy foods
- I can resolve conflicts I have with my peers
Year 1
- I can use a knife and fork to cut up food
- I can brush my hair
- I know when my birthday is
- I can work in a team
- I can describe what makes a healthy meal
- I have fire safety awareness
- I know how to cross a road safely
- I can describe how someone else feels
- I can resolve conflicts I have with my peers
Year 2
- I know my left and right
- I know my address
- I know how to make an emergency phone call
- I can point to where I live on a world map
- I can pay someone a compliment
- I can use dining etiquette
- I can set myself a target
- I know what to do if I am lost
- I can resolve conflicts I have with my peers
Year 3
- I can tie shoelaces
- I can wrap a present
- I can check the weather forecast
- I know how many days there are in each month of the year
- I can carry out research using a search engine
- I can teach something to someone else
- I can make a sandwich
- I can measure, choosing the appropriate equipment
- I can resolve conflicts I have with my peers
Year 4
- I can read and follow a map
- I can calculate the change from £1.00, £5.00 and £10.00
- I can give directions
- I can write and post a letter
- I can swim a length
- I can read a bus timetable
- I can tell the time on an analogue and digital clock
- I can follow a simple recipe
- I can resolve conflicts I have with my peers
Year 5
- I can send an email
- I know how to behave appropriately on line and on social media
- I can fill in an application form
- I can prepare for an interview
- I can use a compass
- I can make a cup of tea
- I can give a presentation to an audience
- I understand the changes that happen during puberty
- I can resolve conflicts I have with my peers
Year 6
- I can prepare and cook a simple hot meal
- I can take part in a debate
- I have an awareness of basic first aid
- I can find out about a range of careers
- I have an understanding of drug and alcohol misuse
- I can tie a tie
- I can read a timetable and follow a schedule
- I know how to manage money
- I can resolve conflicts I have with my peers