Curriculum Areas for Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2
English
Language provides the main instrument of communication and learning throughout the school. We build on children’s early experience giving them opportunities to develop their knowledge of English through speaking and listening, reading and writing. We have fiction and non-fiction books in the library, which the children are encouraged to use and enjoy.
Mathematics
Our school policy provides every child with a structured mathematical experience. It is formulated to extend understanding and awareness at an appropriate level within the National Curriculum.
Mathematical experiences will be wide and varied using a variety of resources. Methods of working include individual, group and class. Mathematics is an important part of everyday life. It is a powerful and meaningful method of communicating. We aim for our pupils to realise an enjoyment for mathematics and appreciate its practical value.
Science
Through first hand experiences and the exploration of science, children will develop investigative skills, knowledge and understanding. They will be encouraged to work with others and to communicate their ideas in a variety of ways: orally, written charts and diagrams.
Children will appreciate science in everyday life and develop a responsibility for the care of living things and the environment.
Art
Our pupils experience a balance of art, craft and design activities working with a variety of media. We aim for them to appreciate styles of art from both Western and non-Western cultures.
Geography
We aim to stimulate interest, foster wonder, develop informed concern and enhance a sense of responsibility for the earth and its peoples. Through project and topic work the children will develop some knowledge and understanding of their immediate locality, region, country, Europe and the wider world.
During their early years much of their knowledge and understanding, investigative and recording skills will be developed within the context provided by the school and immediate vicinity, but later the children will learn how their locality relates to the wider region. Map work, fieldwork, visits to places of geographical interest, using quantitative data and new technologies, plus the practical activities of model making will all feature in their acquisition of geographical skills.
History
Our aim is to arouse interest in the past, to give pupils a sense of identity, to learn about the origins and story of their family, of their community and country.
In the early stages, history will be based on the pupils' own personal histories and that of the localities and the adults around them. Pupils will be encouraged to acquire a sense of time, to look for visual clues to life in the past in their own local area and to learn about authenticity and how to make deductions from their clues.
As the children progress they will study history through topics or themes which stretch through centuries and so encourage chronological understanding. At this stage, by linking the themes to local, national and world history the pupils will have the opportunity to work with a wide variety of resources and so develop a wide range of skills.
Information Communication Technology
Computers enhance, enrich and extend learning throughout the curriculum. Children will develop skills, which will give them confidence and pleasure in using IT.
Sex Education
Sex education is part of the curriculum at Holy Trinity School and is taught with regard for moral consideration and the value of a caring family life. It is not taught as a separate subject. It is introduced from the first year by studying such related topics as families, myself, pets, homes, growth and development throughout the school. Material is presented to the children in a careful and sensitive manner, taking into account age and maturity.
Music
Our aim is to encourage every child to the fullest enjoyment and appreciation of music as possible. This involves developing an awareness of responsiveness to music. This can be seen to be operating in three specific areas: listening, composing and performing.
Listening skills are developed and enhanced through various musical activities, as are other musical skills and concepts. Composition includes the use of different sound sources, including percussion instruments. Performance can be sharing with a small group or with a large audience. We hope that music will offer each child another vehicle of expression and means of communication.
Extra-curricular music activities also take place in the school: choir, recorders, violin, cello, brass instrument and keyboard.
Physical Education
As part of the Healthy School initiative, Holy Trinity enables all pupils to experience challenging and enjoyable physical activities for a minimum of 2 hours per week. Class teachers and specialist sports coaches teach gymnastics, dance and indoor and outdoor games. Swimming is taught throughout Key Stage two. Further opportunities are provided as extra curricular activities led by the teaching staff and qualified coaches. We have very good links with our local secondary school, Charters, which has sports specialist status.
The school participates in many local sporting events. We also participate in dance festivals with RBWM schools. At Holy Trinity School all physical education activities support the general ethos of the school, through promoting enjoyment of sport and physical activities, fair play and teamwork with a healthy attitude towards competition.
Religious Education
Holy Trinity is a Church of England Aided school and Christian attitudes are reflected in the everyday life of the school. In religious Education children are helped to acquire a knowledge of the Bible and of the life of Jesus and an understanding if the Christian Faith as a way of life.
In addition, through the study of Hinduism, Judaism, And Islam, children develop an understanding and respect for the beliefs, traditions and cultures of three world religions.
Each day children participate in active worship that supports the Christian foundation of the school. At certain festivals and other times of the year, classes and sometimes the whole school actively participate in services at Holy Trinity Church.
Parents may choose to withdraw their children from part or all of religious education and collective worship by contacting the school. Children withdrawn will be given appropriate work and supervised by a member of staff. At present, no children are withdrawn.