The National Curriculum - Key Stage 1
Music
We aim to develop children’s enjoyment and appreciation of music through dedicated weekly sessions delivered by the class teacher. Children also engage in year group or whole school singing sessions and the school choir is frequently asked to perform at local events. Children have opportunities to listen to music, work with visiting musicians from a variety of cultures and to explore instruments from many different countries. Musical activities are often linked to other curriculum areas in which the elements of listening, composing and performing are incorporated.
Children in Key Stage One have opportunities to learn how to play a musical instrument including the violin and recorder.
Art and Design
Art is a highly valued aspect of our curriculum. We try to develop each child’s confidence and pleasure in art and design through a range of activities and incorporate a rich variety of media and techniques through which children are encouraged to express their ideas, thoughts and feelings.
The school has strong links with the annual Sheffield Children’s Festival and a close association with several local artists who regularly work on projects with our children, both in and out of school.
Design and Technology
Children are offered a range of opportunity to develop the skills of Design and Technology throughout their time in the infant school.
They undertake projects in each year group which involve designing and making using a variety of materials, tools and techniques to produce such things as pop-up cards, puppets, musical instruments and moving models, toys or vehicles for instance. Food technology such as baking and cookery is also an element of design and technology.
The school has a dedicated children’s kitchen and all children have regular opportunities in which to make use of its facilities - often to prepare and cook the fruit and vegetables grown in the school’s own garden.
Read more about the curriculum for Key Stage 1.
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