CENTRAL PRIMARY SCHOOL
Our curriculum 2
Science This is the third of the Core National
English, Mathematics, History and Geography. evaluate their meaning. The children’s experience
Curriculum subjects and is taught in all year groups.
Children experience the multi-media aspects of ICT of the history curriculum is often enhanced through
Science can stimulate and excite children’s curiosity
by using digital cameras and creating PowerPoint
educational visits.
about phenomena and events in the world around
presentations.
them. Because science links direct practical experience
Geography Our teaching of geography enables
with ideas, it can engage learners at many levels.
Design Technology Technology, with an
children to understand and develop their fascination
Scientific method is about developing and evaluating
emphasis on problem solving, involves children in
for the world in which they live and the interaction
explanations through experimental evidence and
model making, finding solutions to practical issues,
between the physical and human environments. In the
modelling. At the end of the juniors the children
using appropriate materials and using tools correctly.
infants the children investigate their local area and
begin to understand how major scientific ideas
The children may also be required to evaluate their
a contrasting area in the United Kingdom or abroad,
contribute to technological change. They also begin
own work and to suggest possible modifications and
finding out about the environment in both areas and
to consider the cultural significance of science and
alterations. We give pupils the opportunities to use
the people who live there. They also begin to learn
trace its worldwide development. The children learn
paint, textiles, wood, card, paper, clay and cooking
about the wider world. They carry out geographical
to question and discuss science-based issues that may
ingredients. We are fortunate that we have access to a
enquiry inside and outside the classroom. In doing
affect their own lives, the direction of society and the
kitchen area in the Newton Price Centre.
this they ask geographical questions about people,
future of the world. At Central we aim to give children
places and environments, and use geographical skills
opportunities to develop knowledge and understanding
and resources such as maps and photographs. In the
of themselves, the world around them, materials they
History The study of the past is important to the
juniors pupils investigate a variety of people, places
can use and the cycle of life.
understanding of the present. Our aim is to arouse
and environments at different scales in the United
interest and enthusiasm in looking at the past, and
Kingdom and abroad, and start to make links between
Information and Communications
promote enquiry and curiosity. In the infants children
different places in the world. They find out how people
Technology ICT has a high priority at Central
learn about people’s lives and lifestyles. They find out
affect the environment and how they are affected by it.
Primary. We have excellent facilities that very few
about significant men, women, children and events
The children are also encouraged to ask geographical
primary schools are able to match. The children have
from the recent and more distant past, including those
questions, and use geographical skills and resources
access to two computer suites that are linked though
from both Britain and the wider world. They have
such as maps, atlases, aerial photographs and ICT.
the whole school network to their classrooms and
the opportunity to hear exciting stories from history
our interactive whiteboards. We have fast broadband
and use sources of information to help them ask and
Art We have excellent art facilities at Central. The
connection to the internet that is protected through
answer questions. In particular they learn how the
children have access to a specially equipped art room,
the Hertfordshire Herts grid firewall. The curriculum
past is different from the present. In the juniors this
a kiln, as well as a dedicated art gallery space on site
we teach enables children to use computers for word
is developed by learning about ancient Egypt, the
in the Newton Price Centre that we have developed
processing, accessing, editing and interrogating
Romans, the Tudors, ancient Greece, famous people,
with Watford Girls Grammar School. All the classes
data, working with simulations, control technology the Victorians, Britain since 1930 and about local have the opportunity to put on their own exhibition
as well as researching information. ICT is also history. The children also study different sources of in-between exhibitions from visiting artists who also
used in the broader school curriculum, such as evidence, primary and secondary and encouraged to work with the children.
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