Our Curriculum
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English
At Exhall Junior School, it is our intention to provide pupils with a high-quality education in English that will develop pupils' ability to speak, read and write with great fluency, master the mechanics of both reading and writing and develop a love and a true interest for English so that they can communicate their thoughts, ideas and emotions effectively. Students have daily English lessons, as well as varied opportunities to apply their writing and reading skills to other areas of the curriculum such as in topic and science. There are also regular timetable slots to focus on grammar and spelling skills.
Every student has access to our rich reading scheme as well as a variety of good quality books in class reading corners. Teachers select high quality texts to study in English lessons, and other curriculum lessons too, to ensure students have the opportunity to read widely. For students who join us who haven't mastered phonics, our school has a dedicated phonics support assistant who uses Read Write Inc.
Students enjoy writing for a range of purposes such as composing diary entries, reports, stories and poems. They build-up their understanding of the writing process during their time at Exhall; being able to draft, edit and improve their work with increasing independency as they move through Key Stage Two. The teaching of accurate grammar and spelling skills also support our students in become confident writers.
At Exhall, students take a great deal of pride in the way their work is presented. When a student is fluently joining their handwriting, they may earn their pen licence and use handwriting pen.
Maths
The children take part in 4 maths lessons per week supported by the White Rose Small steps. Each lesson is carefully planned to allow each child to explore concepts using a range of resources so that concepts become fully embedded. The children have many opportunities within the maths lesson to work mentally, use a variety of practical materials, learn many strategies, record both informally and formally and then apply these skills to questions and real life problems. This helps our children to become logical thinkers, to be able to solve problems and think in more abstract ways and to challenge themselves.
At Exhall Junior School, we work to ensure that children are 'ready to progress' to the next year group by having the core skills required to access the next years content. In our fluency lessons and through continued assessment strategies, we secure these criteria for all children.
Our Calculation Policy is in line with White Rose's and can be provided on request.
Computing and Online Safety
At Exhall Juniors, it is our intention to enable our pupils to find, explore, analyse, exchange and present information. We want the children at Exhall Juniors to continuously develop so that they can leave our school being computer-literate.
Computing 3I's
Science
At Exhall Junior School, Science should be fully inclusive to every child. Our aims are to fulfil the requirements of the National Curriculum for Science; providing a broad, balanced and differentiated curriculum; ensuring the progressive development of knowledge, skills and vocabulary and for the children to develop a love of science.
History
At Exhall Junior School, we want our History curriculum to inspire a future generation of historians who develop a life-long love and appreciation for the subject. Through the teaching of History, our aim is that we stimulate and pique all children’s interest and curiosities about those who lived in the past and events that changed history. We aim to teach children a sense of chronology in order to develop a sense of identity and a cultural understanding based on their historical heritage. This enables our children to learn to value their own and other people’s cultures in modern, multicultural Britain.
Philosophy for Children
Philosophy for Children at Exhall Junior School is embedded into our curriculum with the aim to maximise the potential of all students through the opportunity to have collaborative discussions around topics that are socially, morally, emotionally and culturally important to them. We aim to take every opportunity to encourage a love for learning within all of our pupils, based around our values of being safe, ready and respectful.
Geography
At Exhall Junior School, we believe that Geography helps to provoke and provide answers to questions about the natural and human aspects of the world. We pride ourselves on our creative learning environment and classroom displays.
Art
At Exhall Junior School, we aim to provide an Art Curriculum that builds on a child’s early creative experiences whilst enabling them to express themselves in a practical and inspiring way. Through learning about a wide range of Art and Crafts, from various cultures, we hope to not only develop the children’s passion and love of the subject but also build a respect, natural inquisitiveness and an appreciation of art in all its forms which they may carry with them throughout their lives.
Music
At Exhall Junior School (EJS), we aim for all our students to have an appreciation of and an understanding of music from a musician’s perspective. With this as our aim, we have chosen to use Kapow as a scheme of work, which covers a range of different aspects, including composition and performance.
PSHRSE
At Exhall Junior School our personal, social, health, Relationships and Sex education (PSHRSE) curriculum supports our students into becoming healthy, independent and empathetic citizens ready to move into the next phase of their development. It aims to help them understand how they are developing personally, physically and socially, and tackles many of the moral, social and cultural issues that are part of growing up in a modern and diverse society.
We provide our students with opportunities for them to learn about rights and responsibilities and to understand what it means to be a member of a diverse and ever-changing community. Our students are encouraged to develop their sense of self-worth by playing a positive role in contributing to school life and the wider community.
All lessons are underpinned by our school’s core values of being ‘Safe, Ready and Respectful’ which fit perfectly with our curriculum offer and lesson themes.
RE
We aim for all students to experience a cohesive RE curriculum, rich in opportunities to explore their own beliefs as well as considering the beliefs of others in a respectful way. We aim for all children to explore and learn about a range of religions and worldviews in order to widen their experience and increase their curiosity about the world around them. Our key intentions are to learn about religion and also to learn from religion.
Parents and Carers do have the right to withdraw their child from all or part of RE.
Physical Education
At Exhall Junior School, we recognise the importance of Physical Education to a child’s physical, cognitive, social and emotional development as well as the role it can play in a child’s spiritual, moral and cultural development.
Design and Technology
At Exhall Junior School, we aim to equip pupils with the knowledge, skills and understanding as set out in the National Curriculum Design and Technology (DT) Programme of Study. It is our intention to offer the children the chance to use creative thinking and design within a defined purpose and tangible outcome.
Assemblies
Each week pupils have an assembly with a focus linked to the British Values, delivered either in class, as a key stage or as a whole school. There is an additional assembly each week to celebrate pupil's achievements. Throughout the year, each class will host an assembly to showcase their learning.
Homework
In each learning block, pupils are given a menu of tasks to complete, that link to the learning in the classroom. Pupils can earn rewards from completing these. See below our homework expectations.
MFL
At Exhall Junior school, we intend for children to develop an interest and thirst for learning other languages; our main focus is French. We use the Kapow scheme of work to embed the key skills of speaking, reading, writing and listening, and lay the foundations for future language learning in KS3 and beyond. We take pride in preparing children to be global citizens now and in their future roles.
If you would like to find out further information about the school's curriculum please contact the school office and ask to speak to Mrs Edwards, our school's curriculum lead.