Curriculum
River Mill Curriculum Intent Statement
River Mill Nursery Curriculum Intent Statement
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Reading
Reading
At River Mill Primary School, we promote and encourage a love for reading. We see reading as an integral part of the curriculum that impacts on all learning. We aim to ensure that all children have the chance to follow an enriching curriculum by getting them reading early. We value the importance of being a confident reader and work hard to develop children’s reading skills. At River Mill, we want children to enjoy reading a wide range of different genres and be able to talk about books and authors with passion and confidence.
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Writing
Writing
At River Mill, our intent is to equip our children with the skills to be able to communicate clearly through their writing. Every opportunity is given for the children to base their writing on an experience and write for a specific audience and purpose. Our writing curriculum aims to immerse the children into engaging topics and texts to motivate them to becoming young authors.
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Science
Science
Our science curriculum aims to support children develop a secure understanding of and fascination with science and how it plays such a key part in their everyday lives. We provide high quality learning opportunities enabling children to gain knowledge through practical, first-hand experiences.
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IT
IT
ICT at River Mill Primary School will provide children with the fundamental skills to be confident and proficient in our ever-developing digital world. Through our STEM focused curriculum projects, children learn to use a range of technology that they apply to real life problems. From this, children learn the impact technology has in their lives and the lives of others.
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Forest School
Forest School
Forest Schools originated in Scandinavia in the 1950s as a way of learning about the natural world. Through play, children learn about the natural environment, how to handle risks and most importantly to use their own initiative to solve problems and co-operate with others. Sessions run throughout the year in all weathers. Children explore, play, learn boundaries of behaviour and grow in confidence, self-esteem and motivation.
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Geography
Geography
It is our intent that the geography curriculum at River Mill Primary School inspires our pupils to be curious and fascinated learners about the ever-changing world around them. Our curriculum intent allows our pupils to explore the diversities that exist within our world relating to both people and place. We want our pupils to have a good knowledge and understanding of where they live and use this to make comparisons with other parts of the world.
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History
History
At River Mill the history curriculum aims to ignite pupil’s curiosity and engagement with the past as well as develop a growing knowledge of the past of through local, national and global history. Through working as historians, we aim for our pupils to develop a keen interest in the past, beginning to appreciate how the past has a bearing on the present and the lives they are living.
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Art
Art
At River Mill, we value Art and Design as an important part of the children’s entitlement to a broad and balanced curriculum. Our Art curriculum develops creativity, sets challenges and provides the children with the opportunities to develop and extend skills whilst encouraging them to express their individual interests, thoughts and ideas.
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Design Technology
Design Technology
Technology is everywhere and will play a pivotal part in all our students’ lives. River Mill is a STEM school and we want to model and educate our pupils on how to use technology creatively, positively and safely. At River Mill, our DT curriculum introduces pupils to new experiences that develop their understanding of technology within the wider world and their own community.
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PE
PE
At River Mill we aim to develop a high-quality, engaging PE curriculum that inspires all children to take part in competitive sports or other demanding physical activity, securing a positive mind-set towards physical activity and therefore life-long sporting participation and a healthy, active lifestyle.
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Music
Music
At River Mill Primary School we ensure that our children experience a broad and balanced curriculum. An essential and extensive part of this curriculum is encompassed within the teaching of wider curriculum subjects, in addition to the core subjects. Our curriculum inspires our children to become inquisitive, critical thinkers and this is achieved through an enquiry-based approach in the foundation subjects. In addition, our curriculum is designed to be progressive and cohesive throughout the school, ensuring that children continuously build upon their prior knowledge and bridge back to what they already know to help them to know more and remember more. We provide opportunities so that everyone has the chance to enjoy music through singing, listening to a broad range of different music and through playing music (using tuned and un-tuned instruments).
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MFL
MFL
Our children live in a globally oriented and highly interconnected world, a world that is technology and information rich and characterised by increasing linguistic and cultural diversity and the growing interdependence of people, communities, and nations. Having the opportunity to learning a language helps develop children’s critical thinking skills, cultural understanding and communication skills.
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Religious Education
Religious Education
The RE curriculum at River Mill follows the Agreed Syllabus for Kent and aims to give all pupils the ability to develop an understanding of and the skills needed to learn about the religions and the community within which they live.
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PSHE
PSHE
Our PSHE curriculum is underpinned by our River Mill curriculum drivers and has been planned with the aim of supporting the development of the ‘whole child’, by helping them to understand how they are developing personally and socially as well as promoting their social, mental and physical wellbeing. PSHE and SRE underpin all that we do at River Mill and are embedded as part of our broad and balanced curriculum.
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