National Curriculum Key Stage One

Mathematics
At Key Stage 1, children will be given opportunities to develop their knowledge and understanding of Mathematics through practical activity, exploration and discussion.  They are taught appropriate Mathematical language in context and encouraged to explain and compare the Mathematics they do.  Children represent their work in a variety of ways using objects, pictures, diagrams, words and symbols.  They will begin to recognise simple patterns and relationships, responding to and asking questions about them.  Children develop a range of flexible methods for working with number and use these to solve numerical problems in a variety of contexts.  They check answers in different ways and begin to use written methods of recording which reflect the mental strategies they use.  Work in Shape, Space and Measures extends children’s understanding and experience of their environment in meaningful ways.

We aim to give them opportunities to relate one aspect of their mathematical thinking to another by linking together different sections of the programme of study from the National Curriculum.

English
Children are taught to listen and respond appropriately and effectively to a range of stimuli, including audio-visual media, speaking audibly, with clear pronunciation and appropriate intonation.  They will have opportunities to structure their talk, using it to develop and clarify their thinking, whilst leading with a range of methods.  They are taught the basic conventions of print and books and given opportunities to enable them to enjoy reading.  They are also  taught effective techniques for using the sources of information available to them, and making sense of what they read.  Children are taught that writing communicates meaning, and are given opportunities to express themselves in writing so that they begin to develop as independent writers, both creatively and factually, using conventional spelling, punctuation, grammatical organisation, and handwriting which is legible.  Children’s knowledge, understanding and skills are developed within an integrated programme of speaking and listening, reading and writing.

They are given opportunities that interrelate the requirements of the Range, Skills and Language Development sections of the National Curriculum.

Science
Children are given opportunities to develop their knowledge and understanding of Science by exploring the familiar world around them in a safe, systematic and sensitive way.  They have opportunities to relate their scientific understanding to domestic contexts and to their local environment.  In doing so, they use simple conventions to describe their findings and to present their work.  Children are taught to explore and investigate and relate their observations to simple scientific ideas.

Technology
Children work with a limited range of tools and materials to make simple products.  They explore how familiar products work and communicate their ideas as they work.  They are taught to develop design and technology capability through combining their Designing and Making skills and Knowledge and Understanding in order to design and make products.

ICT
Children become familiar with Information and Communications Technology (ICT) hardware and software.  They learn to use ICT confidently and purposefully to achieve specific outcomes.  They start to use ICT to develop their ideas and record their creative work.

Music
Children are taught how to perform, compose and appraise music whilst focusing their listening (in all musical activities) on the musical elements.  The repertoire chosen for performing and listening comprises a range of music, including the music of Wales.

The activities of performing, composing and appraising are  interwoven so that the learning derived from each serves to reinforce learning in the others.  The term ‘compositions’ includes improvisations and arrangements.  We have an active school choir and orchestra and perform at local events and services.

Welsh
Welsh as a second language is taught in every class with a minimum of 15 minutes per day allocated, in addition to incidental Welsh during other various activities throughout the school day.  All teachers are able to teach Welsh competently.

Physical Education
Full use is made, dependent on weather, of the yard, dining hall, school field and nearby park.  Shorts, T-Shirt and slip-on pumps should be worn for PE associated activities.  Each class is time tabled 2/3 times per week for PE and movement.  Year 2 children all have the opportunity to learn to swim.

We aim to build on children’s enthusiasm and energy for movement and play, using indoor and outdoor environments.  Children are taught the skills associated with moving and playing creatively and safely.  They are taught to repeat movements and improve how these look or feel.  They are given opportunities to work with a partner, exploring and sharing ideas and helping each other to improve their work.  In this manner, children develop their knowledge, skills and understanding of physical education through the areas of activity when planning (composing), performing and evaluating (reviewing or appreciating) activity.  The greatest emphasis is on performing.

Art
Children are given opportunities to respond practically and imaginatively to the work of others, experiencing work in a range of media and from a variety of periods, cultures and contexts including local and Welsh examples.  They begin by exploring ways of making, using a variety of materials, tools and processes, in two and three dimensions and on a variety of scales.  They investigate the natural and man made environment and the imagined world from observation, experience and imagination using a variety of resources, including, where appropriate, ICT.  We have a kiln and each child has adequate opportunities to work in clay throughout their time at Bodnant Infants.

Religious Education and Collective Worship
Religious Education takes its place on the timetable like other subjects, the mainly Christian ethic being an integral part of the ethos of the school.  We endeavour at all times to transmit values and attitudes, displaying the need for children to care for one another and also about those less fortunate in the world.  Parents who wish to withdraw
their child from the school's Religious Education programme are asked to contact the Headteacher.  All classes include circle time  on the curriculum as part of our pastoral care.

History
Children have opportunities to develop an awareness of the ways in which the past is different from the present.  They are taught to develop an awareness of chronology, of different types of historical sources and to communicate their knowledge and understanding in a variety of ways.

Geography
Children are given opportunities to build on their awareness of the local areas and the wider world.  They will be taught to acquire and apply geographical enquiry skills and broaden their knowledge and understanding of similar and contrasting geographical features of places.  They are given opportunities to observe and describe these features and express their opinions about them.

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