Curriculum

What does your child learn at school each day? Find information about our curriculum subjects here.

The National Curriculum is established by the government, and is followed by schools throughout the country. Then National Curriculum sets out
• the subjects that are taught in school
•   the knowledge, skills, and understanding required in each subject
•   the standards or attainment targets in each subject, which teachers use to measure progress and plan pupils’ next steps
• how progress is assessed and reported.

Within the National Curriculum framework, schools are free to plan the teaching and learning of pupils in whatever way best meets the needs of the pupils.

At Galley Hill, English; Maths; Computing; Religious Education (RE); Personal, Social, and Health Education (PSHE), and French are taught as separate subjects. Other subjects, such as History, Geography, Science, Art, Design and Technology, and Music, are taught using topic work.

Galley Hill provides a variety of reading schemes to suit the needs and interests of our pupils, we believe children need to experience a range and variety of books. Our schemes include: Project X Alien Adventures, Bug Club Comics for Phonics, Phonics Books Moon Dogs, Totem and Alba, Oxford Reading Tree and Wolf Hill.

Phonics are taught using letters and Sounds phonic programme including the use of Bug Club, Songbirds, Floppy's Phonics, Rapid and Rapid Phonics.

For more information on the curriculum see our prospectus or the Curriculum Policy.

Computing

The Galley Hill Primary School Computing scheme of work is based on the Primary Computing Scheme from Herts for Learning, this may be adapted to suit the needs of our pupils and to ensure appropriate progression.
The scheme has been written to fully align with the 2014 Computing curriculum. For more information on the scheme and Computing at Galley Hill, please see below.

Reproduced from the Herts for Learning Primary Computing Scheme with permission.

For subject policies please see our policies page.

Great Britain Day 

As part of our school priorities, we are working on developing reasoning across the curriculum. The staff have worked together to devise our own 'reasoning framework' which we will be using the develop the concept with the children. We used our Great Britain day themes to launch some of the ideas. The children came to school dressed in red, white and blue and a whole range of exciting activities took place in classes across the school...