Curriculum Implementation

At Haywards Farm Primary School, we understand the objectives and requirements of the national curriculum and our thematic, cross-curricular approach ensures that all students are able to access the curriculum at their level. Our curriculum is carefully planned over a two-year cycle for each phase in Key Stages 1 and 2 to engage and excite all our learners and ensure planned knowledge is delivered, and skills are both revisited and reinforced.

At Haywards Farm School we use Oak Academy as a curriculum scheme from KS1 to KS3 to ensure we cover all of the National Curriculum expectations for the teaching of History. We tailor this scheme to meet the individual learning needs of each young person through adaptations and scaffolding to provide the support for understanding of the subject.

History and geography is taught in discrete units of learning to deepen pupils’ knowledge and understanding. Knowledge is built over time as a child continues their learning journey at Haywards Farm School. In lessons, knowledge is assessed through a start of unit ‘quiz’ to assess children’s prior and current knowledge together with identification of any gaps in learning to inform planning. Teachers will then adapt lessons to extend the learning and provide an appropriate level of challenge for individual students. Following the completion of a History/Geography  unit, Children’s knowledge is reassessed using the same quiz questions where new knowledge learnt and individual progress can be measured and evaluated to inform future planning. Throughout each of the history/Geography  units, children learn new skills which are taught to enable children to develop their wider understanding of the world. These include skills such as:

• Communication and interaction- through discussion, reading and interpreting

• Understanding society and the wider world- debate and collaboration and presenting their findings to others.

All History and Geography lessons follow one of the historical threads in the Oak Academy Curriculum units lessons to allow children to build upon prior knowledge and deepen their knowledge further over time.

Our historical threads are:

• Empire, persecution and resistance
• Invasion, migration and settlement
• Power, government and religion
• Trade, ideas and communication
• Warfare and conflict

Our geography threads are:

• Americas and regions, diversity
• Climate and weather, mountains, volcanoes and earthquakes. Economic activity.
• Human Processes 
• Interconnection, land use and settlement, local area, natural resources ,land and river