Curriculum
Manor Infant and Nursery School strives to ensure every child has a happy time on their learning journey through the school, nurturing resilience and developing respectful future citizens.
Respectful, Happy, Resilient
At Manor we have 8 key areas that we feel give children the life skills to become successful future citizens. Each year group, from nursery to year 2, works towards an outcome to develop skills in each of these areas.
Manor Great 8
At Manor Infant School through our curriculum we want to give children the skills in order to:
| Nursery | Year R | Year 1 | Year 2 |
read | Make a story using pictures and read it back | Read a recipe in the mud kitchen | Read instructions to build models using Lego | Become confident readers to read and perform poetry |
write | Make marks that say something about me which are recognisable to an adult | Write a simple sentence to thank the farmer for letting us visit | Write a letter about the use of palm oil | Write a diary entry as Florence Nightingale using inference to understand different points of view |
communicate | Use story stones to tell a simple story | Tell a story using props and story language | Report what I found out about dinosaurs | Justify my answer to questions like ‘is it ever ok to take revenge’? |
stay healthy | Climb and jump Know how to brush teeth | Throw and catch a large ball with a friend to play hot potato | Play bench ball as part of a team | Take part in a range of team games and teach them to other year groups |
cook | Make biscuits by pouring and mixing the ingredients | Make a sandwich for a party by cutting and spreading | Make soup from vegetables we have grown | Make a pizza from scratch |
make | Make something from my imagination using wooden blocks and loose parts | Make a moving vehicle from junk modelling material | Make a bug hotel using wood | Learn to sew to make a money pouch |
be creative | Use natural resources to make a picture | Create own dance to a piece of classical music | Perform and compose a song about about our world | Perform in a country dance by following a sequence of movements |
use technology | Take a photo of something I made | Film a friend performing a talent | Program a beebot so it can get from one place to another | Make my own game using software on the computer understanding the code and the impact it has |
Ethical questions 2021-2022
At Manor Infant and Nursery School we use ethical questions to lead the children’s learning and provide them with the skills and opportunity to carry out the school’s vision:
Year R
The Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) is the statutory framework that sets the standards that we must meet to ensure that children learn and develop well and are kept healthy and safe. It gives children the broad range of skills that provide the foundation for future progress throughout school and life. These skills have been linked to topics to provide meaningful, relevant and memorable learning experiences for the children so they can apply their skills and knowledge to a range of experiences leading to a strong understanding of concepts. Where there is not a natural link to a topic, the learning will be taught discretely. Throughout Year R there is a balance between teacher directed activities and activities initiated by the children themselves.
Year 1
The National Curriculum programmes of study for each subject tell us the minimum requirement of what has to be taught in Key Stage 1 (Years 1 and 2). Like Year R we have linked these subject areas to topics to provide meaningful, relevant and memorable learning experiences to enable children to make links between different areas of learning. This allows them opportunities to apply their skills and knowledge to a range of different situations and problems. If there is not a natural link to a topic then the learning will be taught discretely.
Year 2
The National Curriculum programmes of study for each subject tell us the minimum requirement of what has to be taught in Key Stage 1 (Years 1 and 2). Like Year R we have linked these subject areas to topics to provide meaningful, relevant and memorable learning experiences to enable children to make links between different areas of learning. This allows them opportunities to apply their skills and knowledge to a range of different situations and problems. If there is not a natural link to a topic then the learning will be taught discretely.