East Craigs Primary School Curriculum Information Session Wednesday 19th September, 2018

Aims for the session Overview of the curriculum for session 2018-19 Introduce the Better Relationships, Better Behaviour, Better Learning Policy Introduce the “Building Resilience” programme Introduce the Homework Policy Opportunity to ask questions

Our Curriculum – How was it designed? Considered the importance of the progressive development of Core Skills in Literacy & English, Numeracy & Mathematics, Health & Wellbeing Considered the demographic of the East Craigs context Considered what topics work well at particular stages We created a rationale for our new curriculum A Curricular Framework for Inter-disciplinary learning (IDL) which ensures breadth, depth, progression, personalisation and choice, challenge and enjoyment, coherence, relevance Discrete progressions for:- Literacy & English, Numeracy & Mathematics, Health & Wellbeing (includes Physical Education), Music, Science & 1+2 Modern Languages (N-P7 French, P5-7 German)

Example of the Second Level Curricular Framework

IDL Topics for Primary 5 Space The Human Body My Scotland/France Mary Queen of Scots Robert Burns The Human Body

Events for Primary 5 Primary 5 Trip to Dynamic Earth Monday 8th October 2018 Primary 5 Space Assembly will take place on Friday 16th November 2018 in the Games Hall starting at 9am. All Welcome. Mary Queen of Scots Outing from Edinburgh Castle to Holyrood Palace on Thursday 28th March 2019.

Our Curricular Framework for Your Child’s Stage Ensures appropriate coverage of Curriculum for Excellence Experiences & Outcomes Allows opportunities for linear learning e.g. whole-school topics New Beginnings, Equalities, Financial Education, World of Work and Community Learning Teams Allows for teachers’ response to external context e.g. Global events, pupils’ interests More general topic headings e.g. Ancient Civilisations rather than “The Romans” The curriculum is equitable but not uniform

What next? Part of our School Improvement work for this year includes a review of our curriculum Staff will look at how to redesign the curriculum to ensure its fitness for purpose towards Developing the Young Workforce Staff will embed the Careers Standard 3-18 into the curriculum Staff will ensure that skills progressions are explicit and embedded in the curriculum Staff will ensure that the curriculum provides learners with everything they need to prepare them for their future careers

Better Relationships, Better Behaviour, Better Learning

Class Charters and Weekly Targets

Every day is a new day…keep track of your daily points Add them up at the end of the week and move your star up the mountain…

Have something to aim for… Work together to reach that goal…

Maybury Barnton Almond What are we still doing? Team EC Nominees House Points Barnton Almond

Already in use across many Edinburgh primary schools Launch of new CEC Health and Wellbeing Programme – “Building Resilience” Developed by CEC Growing Confidence Team based on current pedagogy and practice in the successful promotion of emotional wellbeing Already in use across many Edinburgh primary schools Three year programme launching in line with our Better Relationships, Better Behaviour, Better Learning policy Suggestion….Play ‘River’ by Emile Sande as the children enter assembly

The River of Life Sometimes we can describe the ups and downs of life as being like a river. The river of life takes everyone on a different journey, each one full of expeditions and adventures. You may want to explain the river concept further… It begins from a tiny pool in the mountains (just like a baby) The young river begins to flows quickly with lots of energy (imagine a tiny toddler off to discover the world) In the middle age of a river’s journey, it gets wider and slows down. It divides into branches (the river has grown up and has built up lots of knowledge and experiences) As it becomes an old river, it slows down and reaches the end of it’s journey

We can’t control what life throws at us Everyone will enjoy times in the calm waters Sometimes we will all find ourselves in difficult waters Do you know? This is a normal part of life Sometime things happen which leave us feeling up…. Discuss the pictures Sometimes other things happen which leave us feeling down…. Discuss the pictures

We are learning how to navigate the river of life I am resilient Hi, my name is Skipper Skipper is the captain of his boat sailing along the river of life. Just like you, Skipper experiences a range of ups and downs everyday. He is learning how to navigate his boat around the obstacles and has even got better at coping when his boat gets into difficulties. Introduce ‘Skipper’ – skipper is another name for captain! Skipper is resilient Skipper is going help us all to be more resilient

We can all learn ways to cope better with the river of life Together we are going to learn about the things that Skipper uses to help him to navigate the river of life The good news is…. Do you know? These things will help you the next time you hit a difficult patch of water

Skipper has found that these ten things help him to cope with the river of life These are tools that we can add to our boat, which we can used when we are in challenging times. Even if you are not going through any particular challenges at the moment, everyone of us can benefit from stocking up on more tools and techniques for coping. We can bank them until later when we will need them. Over time we will visit each of these tools separately and learn more about them and how we can use them to help us.

Homework Policy New policy was formed… Taking account of feedback from parent, pupil and staff surveys conducted last session To allow greater flexibility for the completion of homework given the increasing wider achievement agenda for pupils To allow greater choice in how pupils demonstrate their learning

New Approach to Homework Spelling and Maths – weekly Set reading for P1-3 Reading for Enjoyment for P4-7, recorded in a journal – weekly Choice element – additional activity from H&W, IDL or Science – every four weeks Homework will be issued mid-week i.e. Tuesday or Wednesday All Homework returned by the following Monday – but can be handed in any time before then

P5 Homework Grid Yellow tasks compulsory each week. One red or blue task each week. Any one green task over the 4 week period.