Curriculum

Charlton Mackrell C of E Primary School
‘The one who gets wisdom loves life.’ Proverbs 19:8
The documents below show our school curriculum. We operate a two year rolling programme (Year A and Year B) to successfully accommodate the needs of our mixed aged classes. This ensures the entire National Curriculum is covered in a sequential way throughout a pupils’ time at our school. Our class structure is currently Reception and Year 1 in Rainbow Class, Year 2 and Year 3 in Hurricane Class, Year 4 and 5 in Wildfire Class and Year 6 in Tornado Class.
Due to numbers the split of year groups can alter from year to year, however our curriculum and the professionalism of the teachers ensures all children engage in the highest quality teaching and curriculum experience.
Each curriculum area consists of key concepts which are made explicit within each topic and taught across the whole school.
History - Democracy, Conflict, Empire and Invasion
Geography - Environment, Scale, Pace and Processes
Art - Experiment, Creativity, Reflect and Develop
PE - Physical competence, Sportsmanship, Health and Fitness
Design and Technology - Design, Make, Evaluate and Technical Knowledge
Charlton Mackrell Curriculum Intent:
As a school, we have set our curriculum intent with the children at the centre. Our school curriculum is underpinned by our Christian ethos and school vision.
'It is important to view knowledge as sort of a semantic tree - make sure you understand the fundamental principes, i.e the trunk and big branches, before you get into the leaves/details or there is nothing for them to hang to.' Elon Musk
'Every human is an artist.' Don miguel Ruiz
'Geography underpins a lifelong 'conversation' about the earth as the home of humankind'. Geography Association
'Physically educated persons are those who have learned to arrange their lives in such a way that they habitual physical activities they freely engage in make a distinctive contribution to their wider flourishing.' James MacAllister
'When I read literature, great drama, speeches, or sermons, I feel that the human mind has not achieved anything greater than the ability to share feelings and thoughts through language.' James Earl Jones
Genre and writing skills progression
Take a look at some writing from Wildfire Class:
'Computers are like bicycles for the mind'. Steve Jobs
'Good buildings come from good people, and all problems are solved by good design.' Stephen Gardiner
'A people without knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.' Marcus Mosiah Garvey
At Charlton Mackrell Primary School we use the SCARF scheme of work. The outline plans can be found below.
'Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.' Albert Einstein
'You live a new life for every language you speak. If you only know know language, you only live once.' Czech proverb
'Without music, life would be a mistake.' Friedrich Nietzsche
We follow the 'Sing Up' planning for music. This is supplemented by support from a specialist music teacher for our Wildfire Class. This enables us to follow the National Curriculum and also provides enhanced musical opportunities with the ukulele group and choir.
HEALTH AND WELLBEING:
Please click here to see a presentation from Huish Federation on wellbeing and mental health in children and young people.