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Starks Field Primary School

Be The Best You Can Be helps our pupils learn the importance of our six core values: kindness, respect, tolerance, resilience, honesty and self-responsibility.

  1. Curriculum
  2. Humanities

Humanities

History Curriculum

The history curriculum at Starks Field allows children to learn about the past and how it relates to us today. They are able to explore and develop an understanding of Britain’s past and that of the wider world.

Across the school, children are taught a series of skills which they learn to apply to different contexts. The skills that are covered include areas such as asking perceptive questions, thinking critically, weighing evidence, sifting arguments and developing perspective and judgement. Teachers carefully plan lessons to enthuse children and give them opportunities to develop their understanding of our history.

In EYFS and KS1 the children are learning history through the Cornerstones curriculum, being immersed in a topic across a half term with a subject focus. The history-focused topics are:

EYFS: Our Reception curriculum focuses on questions to help the children in building their understanding of the world, with the topics like 'Why do leaves go crispy?', 'Where does snow go?' and 'Are eggs alive?'.

Year 1: Dinosaur Planet, where children develop their knowledge of prehistory. Children will learn about dinosaurs and fossils and the amazing discoveries of palaeontologists, such as Mary Anning.

Year 2: Street Detectives, where children learn about their local area. This project develops children’s knowledge of key landmarks, services and the community, how these have changed over the years and what they, as the younger generation, can do for their local area.

In Years 3-6 the children learn history through the Opening Worlds curriculum. One of the main ideas underpinning the Opening World’s curriculum is the idea of building schemata over the four years of the curriculum, creating readiness for new learning. With continuous links made to previous learning, children can more rapidly understand new content and make historical comparisons to previous knowledge. This curriculum focuses on a rich and broad understanding of theme and vocabulary. This links well to our whole-school intentions around increasing children’s vocabulary.

Year 3's topics are Ancient Egypt, Cradles of Civilization, the Indus Valley, Persia and Greece, Ancient Greece and Alexander the Great.

Year 4-6's topics are Ancient Greece, Alexander the Great, the Roman Republic, the Roman Empire, Roman Britain and Christianity Across Three Empires (300 – 600CE).


We also try to supplement our curriculum with educational visits and speakers. Some of our recent trips include the British Museum, the Imperial War Museum, the Golden Hinde and the Natural History Museum.

Geography Curriculum

The geography curriculum at our school allows pupils to build on their curiosity and fascination about the world. Through teaching a progressive series of key geography skills pupils will learn about diverse places, people, resources and natural and human environments. As pupils progress their growing knowledge about the world this should help them to deepen their understanding of the interaction between physical and human processes.  In the units of study we focus on map work and first-hand observations to enhance their locational awareness.  In EYFS and KS1 the children are learning geography through the Cornerstones curriculum, being immersed in a topic across a half term with a subject focus, such as:

 

  • Bright Lights, Big City – pupils learn about the physical and human characteristics of the United Kingdom, including a detailed exploration of the characteristics and features of the capital city, London.
  • Rocks, Relics and Rumbles - this project teaches the features and characteristics of the Earth's layers, including a detailed exploration of volcanic, tectonic and seismic activity.

 

In Years 3-6, the children learn geography through the Opening Worlds curriculum. One of the main ideas underpinning the Opening Worlds curriculum is the idea of building schemata over the four years of the curriculum, creating readiness for new learning. With continuous links made to previous learning, children can more rapidly understand new content and make historical comparisons to previous knowledge. This curriculum focuses on a rich and broad understanding of theme and vocabulary. This links well to our whole-school intentions around increasing children’s vocabulary. 

Year 3's topics are Rivers, Mountains, Settlements, Agriculture, Volcanoes and Climate and Biomes.

Year 4-6's topics are Volcanoes, Climate and Biomes, Rhine and Mediterranean, Coastal Processes and Tourism.

Religious Education

RE is taught across the school and the units of study are taken from the Enfield Agreed Syllabus. Within RE, we learn about the different communities and faiths.  The syllabus introduces them at each key stage to specific programmes of study relating to Christianity, Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism and Sikhism. Each unit focuses on an aspect or festival of the religion and children are encouraged to share their personal experiences where appropriate. Our RE curriculum teaches children to be respectful of peoples’ beliefs and faiths – in line with our British Values – and to reflect on what we can learn from religions. While we are learning about these religions, we also feel it is important to visit each place of worship in order to enrich children’s learning and provide first-hand experiences, such as a church, mosque or temple.