Skip to main content

Newsflash

The Heights, Burnley has recently been graded by OFSTED as a GOOD provider
All students must arrive to school in full school uniform. Daily checks will be taking place.
Our school day commences at 09:00. Students may arrive from 08:30

KS2

Subject Maths English Reading Science
Number of sessions 4 4 4 1

 

Subject Food Technology Art Outdoor Education  PE Topic Nurture Personal Development
Number of sessions 1 1 3 1 1 1 1

 

 

Additional sessions throughout the week
Physical activity sessions

Guided play sessions

Educational computer games

Social skills

Newsround

Class reader

Reading to an adult

 

 

National Curriculum Coverage at KS2
English
  • Develop positive attitudes to reading and an understanding of what they read
  • Increase familiarity with a wide range of books
  • Participate in discussions about books that are read to them and those they can read for themselves
  • Compose and rehearse sentences orally, building a varied and rich vocabulary
  • In narratives, create settings, characters and plot
  • In non-narrative material, using simple organisational devices
  • Write legibly, fluently and with increasing speed
Maths
  • Become increasingly fluent with whole numbers and the four operations
  • Become increasingly fluent in the order and place value of numbers beyond 1000
  • Read, write, order and compare numbers and determine the value of each digit
  • Solve number and practical problems with increasingly large positive numbers involving addition, subtraction, multiplication and division
  • Build confidence when working mathematically
Science
  • Ask relevant questions and use different types of scientific enquiries to answer them
  • Set up simple practical enquiries, comparative and fair tests
  • Gather, record, classify and present data in a variety of ways to help in answering questions
  • Use results to draw simple conclusions and make predictions

 

Food Technology
  • Understand and apply the principles of a healthy and varied diet
  • Prepare and cook a variety of predominantly savoury dishes using a range of cooking techniques
Art
  • Create sketch books to record their observations
  • Improve mastery of art and design techniques, including drawing, painting and sculpture with a range of materials
  • Know about the work of artists
Outdoor Education
  • Take part in outdoor and adventurous activity challenges both individually and within a team
PE
  • Use running, jumping, throwing and catching in isolation and in combination
  • Play competitive games and apply basic principles suitable for attacking and defending
Topic
  • Develop the appropriate use of historical terms
  • Construct informed responses that involve
  • Describe and understand key aspects of physical geography
Nurture
  • Recognise their worth as individuals by identifying positive things about themselves
  • Resolve differences by looking at alternatives, making decisions and explaining choices
  • Recognise that pressure to behave in an unacceptable or risky way can come from a variety of sources, including people they know, and how to ask for help and use basic techniques for resisting pressure to do wrong
  • Know that their actions affect themselves and others, to care about other people’s feelings and to try to see things from their points of view
  • Be aware of different types of relationship and to develop the skills to be effective in relationships;
Personal Development
  • Recognise, as they approach puberty, how people’s emotions change at that time and how to deal with their feelings towards themselves, their family and others in a positive way
  • What makes a healthy lifestyle, including the benefits of exercise and healthy eating, what affects mental health, and how to make informed choices
  • To realise the nature and consequences of racism, teasing, bullying and aggressive behaviours, and how to respond to them and ask for help

 

 

 

 

“We are passionate about making a difference, removing challenges to learning, having a positive impact, delivering high quality teaching and learning, and achievement for all.”