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    Curriculum overview

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    School curriculum summary

    Remote education provision

    Year group curriculum overview

    Term period Curriculum overview
    Autumn Autumn year group curriculum (PDF)
    Spring Spring year group curriculum (PDF)
    Summer Summer year group curriculum (PDF)

    Curriculum Photos

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    We want everyone to be happy and ready to learn. We drew around our hands to show that we all agree with these rules and will follow them.
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    We’ve enjoyed exploring our outdoor learning environment, making friends and working cooperatively together.
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    Every Friday we enjoy learning to draw by watching a video of an artist and then drawing our own. We are also learning to master correct pencil grip.
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    We enjoyed creating our own Autumn Art.
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    We are using pegboards to strengthen our fingers, here we are creating repeating patterns.
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    Transient art, which promotes creativity and imagination.
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    We built a skate park.
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    Making letters.
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    Mastering number using jigsaws.
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    Building core muscles on scooter boards
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    Beginning to try to read books independently
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    We learn to investigate and explore, making new colours and changing them.
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    We work together to sort and group items, we compare size and quantities.
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    At forest school we work as a team to make a den.

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    There was great excitement when snow fell in November.
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    We all wrapped up in our coats, hats and gloves and put on our welly boots to go out and explore the snow.
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    We all enjoyed the snow.
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    Children had a go a junk modelling. Here they were making what ever they chose from spaceships to garages.
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    The children in Wales class have loved playing ‘office’ in their independent learning time. They would answer phones make appointments and chose their own managers.
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    As part of our journey to have the best possible handwriting, children used playdough to build strength in their hands.
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    As part of our learning journey for RE, Rev. Linda, came to visit us wearing her party hat to teach us that Christmas is a birthday celebration as well. 
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    It was great to see the excitement on their faces as they selected gifts during the SJSA Christmas shopping day.  Although what you might be unwrapping on Christmas morning remains a mystery, there’s sure to be some pleasant surprises!
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    We looked at different shapes and their properties. They also looked at shapes in the environment and saw what they could draw with different shapes.
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    At Christmas Santa’s workshop arrived in England class and we set about helping Santa to make presents. We learnt how to use our safe saws to cut triangles, to use a ruler to draw straight lines and to check our triangles had 3 sides.
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    In the garden our new Kitchen garden opened and we measured. Cut and made recipes to make pumpkin soup.
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    At Forest School we strengthened our arms muscles and found out how strong the wind was as we whirled our ribbons to create circles in the air.
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    The classroom transformed into a giant Zoo this term, we practiced our counting to complete a stock take of the animals and we wrote labels for each of the enclosures. We even made brochures for visitors to the Zoo and gave tours.
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    But disaster struck our Zoo, one night the Elephants escaped and we couldn’t find them. Before telling Mrs Marsh we had animals on the loose in the school, we worked in groups to devise a plan to catch them.
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    There are many TV quiz shows that pitch one team against another; obviously, those shows have different requirements for the teams’ general knowledge as well as different team sizes and demographics. However, here at Saint James Primary School, we have located a gap in the market; a quiz with teams of up to 32, an age range from 5 to 11 and a focus on children’s literature. We call it, ‘Battle of the books’! Here we are with Miss Achilles as quiz master. Scotland Class were so proud to be crowned the winners of the competition.

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