1. Parents Meeting 6th October 2014
St Christopher’s R.C.
Primary
2014 New
National Curriculum
Parents Meeting 6th October 2014

3. Biggest change in 20 years

4. The jigsaw model

5. English (not Literacy!)
SPAG (Spelling, punctuation and grammar).
Very detailed areas to be taught.
Phonics.
Spelling lists for year groups.
Reading for pleasure - author

6. Mathematics not Numeracy
Lot harder – Expectations higher for each group
Far East – Core number – heavy number focus
Fractions now has its own strand – starts earlier
As does Measure (With increased expectations)
Shape and Space is now Geometry
Formal written methods of calculation introduced earlier and tested – 4 rules of number
Tables – all by Year 4 (x12)
K MEASURE- TIME , temperature MoneyS1 Lower KS2 and Upper KS2: Use STRANDS loosely NC doesn’t use this term. Measures big part of ELG’s

7. Programmes of Study KS1
Year 1: Animals, including humans; everyday materials; seasonal changes. Year 2: Living things and their habitats; plants; animals including humans; uses of everyday materials. Asking ? Observing and Recording.

8. Year Groups: KS2
Year 3: Plants; animals including humans; rocks; light; forces and magnets. Year 4: Living things and their habitats; animals including humans; states of matter; sound; electricity. Year 5: Living things and their habitats; animals including humans; properties and changes in materials; earth and space; forces. Year 6: Living things and their habitats; animals including humans; evolution and inheritance; light; electricity. Making Predictions, fair tests and recording data

9. Foundation Subjects Religious Education is untouched
SMSC (Spirtual, moral, social and cultural)
Everything we do in school: Other religions and cultures, responsibility, charity work, British values, outside school interests and being a responsible person.
For those schools who do not have a teaching kitchen!

10. Key Changes: Primary Computing
Clear change of focus from digital literacy to programming and control
Coding
EXPENSIVE – WE ARE RESOURCING!
use logical reasoning to explain how some simple algorithms work and to detect and correct errors in algorithms and programs

11. Key Changes: Primary History
More remains the same than changes, esp. KS1
KS1 about developing language and awareness of the past
New units required: Eg Changes in Britain from Stone Age to Iron Age
Certain Year groups have changed and these are on the long term overviews.
KS1- In living memory or significant events beyond
Tudors etc could come in Local Study or a study of an aspect or theme in British history that extends pupils’ chronological knowledge beyond 1066

12. Key Changes: Foundation Subjects
D&T: expectation of food curriculum
Geography: change from investigative to knowledge-based.
Languages: Focused on pupils making progress in one (any!) modern language across key stage 2.
Specialist teachers
Languages- Reading great literature in original language, feminine, masculine and neuter forms and the conjugation of high-frequency verbs;