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our Curriculum
Our curriculum vision is centred around ensuring all pupils achieve their very best and lays the foundations to prepare pupils for their role as lifelong learners and citizens of the future. It is built on a deep understanding of the children and the community we serve, and is structured to ensure that children leave our school with the knowledge, understanding and skills needed for the next stage of their learning journey.
Because of our drive to ensure all Hartley pupils have the chance to succeed regardless of their starting points, we’ve designed a curriculum that is:
Relevant - Subjects are taught in a way that relates to children’s lives and experiences both now and for the future.
Balanced - Our curriculum promotes intellectual, moral, spiritual, creative, emotional and physical development as equally important to traditional, academic subjects.
Broad - Children experience a wide range of knowledge, understanding and skills across the full primary curriculum, with no subject being minimised.
Memorable – Rich opportunities, including educational visits, that lead to high quality learning, and wider personal development and well-being are mapped out alongside the big ideas or key concepts within each subject area.
At Hartley, our curriculum is drawn from: the National Curriculum; expertise within the school and from across the Learning in Harmony Trust; and high quality published programmes such as Maths No Problem. We teach some subjects in a blocked format to allow all children to gain a greater depth of understanding with a knowledge-rich focus. Other subjects are taught weekly so that children benefit from access to subject specialist teachers and equipment, as well as enabling children to better recall and build on their learning. All subjects are vertically structured to secure a clear focus on progression through the careful sequencing of knowledge and skills. This provides clarity around what ‘getting better’ at a subject actually means.
Select a subject from the menu below to find out more!
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Art
Art
Art and design embody some of the highest forms of human creativity. At Hartley, we want our children to become lifelong artists. A high-quality art and design education should engage, inspire and challenge pupils, equipping them with the knowledge and skills to experiment, invent and create their own works of art and design. Children at Hartley will learn how art and design both reflect and shape our history, and contribute to the culture, creativity and wealth of our nation, which will shape their understanding of the world around them.
Art at Hartley focuses on the building of colour theory, along with the building of skills to create a final piece through experimental work and artist study. This so that children have the knowledge and the skills to create a piece of artwork. We encourage children to broaden their ideas and imagination through a variety of different artists and mediums to create a truly unique artistic learning experience.
Read more about our Art curriculum here.
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Computing
Computing
A high-quality computing education equips pupils to use computational thinking and creativity to understand and change the world. Computing has deep links with mathematics, science, and design and technology, and provides insights into both natural and artificial systems.
Read more about our Computing curriculum here.
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DT
DT
D&T gives children the opportunity to develop skills, knowledge, and understanding of designing and making functional products. We feel it is vital to nurture creativity and innovation through design, and by exploring the designed and made world in which we all live and work. Children at Hartley work collaboratively to improve their skills in problem-solving, and knowledge in design, materials, structures, and mechanisms. They are encouraged to be creative and innovative, and are actively encouraged to think about important issues such as sustainability and enterprise.
At Hartley, Children acquire and apply knowledge and understanding of materials and components, mechanisms, structures, existing products, quality, and health and safety to give a broad and balanced understanding of the made world around them. This understanding enables children to be nurtured and guided to become lifelong makers and campaigners in sustainability.
Read more about our DT curriculum here.
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English
English
A high-quality education in English will teach pupils to speak and write fluently so that they can communicate their ideas and emotions to others and through their reading and listening, others can communicate with them.
Read more about our English curriculum here.
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EYFS
EYFS
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French
French
All Key Stage 1 & 2 children at Hartley are given the opportunity to learn a language to support them in developing their communication skills and support language progression. Being able to learn another language opens doors for children, creating progressive thinkers who are prepared for an ever changing workforce. Our school is so diverse with children from all over the world; learning French helps to broaden their horizons by exposing them to a range of cultures. Here at Hartley, we use La Jolie Ronde scheme to support progression in French and children are provided with a range of visual and written materials to help support their language development.
Read more about our French curriculum here.
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Geography
Geography
A high-quality geography education should inspire in pupils a curiosity and fascination about the world and its people that will remain with them for the rest of their lives.
Read more about our Geography curriculum here.
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History
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Mathematics
Mathematics
A high-quality mathematics education therefore provides a foundation for understanding the world, the ability to reason mathematically, an appreciation of the beauty and power of mathematics, and a sense of enjoyment and curiosity about the subject.
Read more about our Maths curriculum here.
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Music
Music
At Hartley we follow the National Curriculum for music, providing a broad, balanced and differentiated curriculum, and ensuring the development of musical concepts, knowledge and skills.
Our mission is to ensure that music plays an integral role in helping children to feel part of a community, therefore we provide opportunities for all children to create, play, perform and enjoy music both in class and to an audience. Through engaging assemblies and key stage performances, children showcase their talent and their understanding of performing with awareness of others. Sequenced lessons enable children to develop their skills, appreciate a wide variety of music and begin to appraise a range of musical genres.
It is our intent that we make music an inspiring and enjoyable learning experience which develops the children’s musical skills and encourages all on their musical journey. We hope to foster a lifelong love of music by exposing children to diverse musical experiences through which to develop a love of music and develop their talent as musicians, and in turn increase their self-confidence, creativity and sense of achievement and enable them to grow up as kind, curious and open minded young people, sensitive and knowledgeable about music and arts in the World around them.
Read more about our Music curriculum here.
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PE
PE
A high-quality physical education curriculum inspires all pupils to succeed and excel in competitive sport and other physically-demanding activities.
Read more about our PE curriculum here.
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PHSE R(S)HE
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RE
RE
Our R.E curriculum provides opportunities for pupils to develop and demonstrate the skills and attitudes that will allow them to participate in, and contribute positively to, life in modern Britain.
Read more about our RE curriculum here.
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Science
Science
Science has changed our lives and is vital to the world's future prosperity, and all pupils should be taught essential aspects of the knowledge, methods, processes and uses of science.
Read more about our Science curriculum here.
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