Below is an overview of course content for Pre-school to Year 9.  Please click on the required link below:

Pre-school - Year 1
Year 2 - Year 3
Year 4 - Year 5
Year 6 - Year 7
Year 8 - Year 9

Reading Scheme and Materials for Pre-school to Year 5

OXFORD READING TREE - please click on this link for further information about this reading scheme: www.oxfordprimary.com

OXFORD JUNIOR WORKBOOKS - A series of colouring/learning to read books with progress tests and a variety of activities.

KEY COMPREHENSION - Reading material that includes poems, stories and factual reports.  Children are encouraged to develop their inferential, deductive and evaluative reading skills to help them read fluently, accurately and with greater understanding.  For further information please click on this link: www.ginn.co.uk

Pre-school - Year 1
We prepare for learning to read
How can I hold a pencil?
We form our first letters
We practise our first phonics
Colours
Numbers 1-20
Animals
Fruits
Family
My Alphabet Book
We say the letters of the alphabet
Christmas and Easter
Picture stories
We listen to stories and answer questions
We read books in a reading scheme
We learn and colour nursery rhymes

Year 2- Year 3
We read books in a reading scheme
We count from 1 - 1000
My body
My family
My neighbourhood
Feelings
Time - days, months, seasons
We practise telling the time
I am
I have
Christmas, Easter, Halloween
We listen to stories and answer questions
We learn to spell simple short words
We learn nursery rhymes

Year 4 - Year 5
We read simplified readers
We talk about what we read
We write about what we read
We practise spelling
We write stories to picture sequences
We present our work orally and in writing
We read a variety of poems, stories and non-fiction texts to develop our reading and understanding skills.
We do crosswords

Year 6 - 7
We read and analyze a book together
We discuss the plot and the characters in the book
We do quizes, crosswords, word searches based on the book
We write synopses
We practise spelling
We write profiles for a web page (see under IT Projects)
We practise basic IT skills
We read a variety of texts - poems, stories, factual reports
We present our work orally and in writing

Year 8 - 9
We read and analyze a book/play/poem together
We discuss the plot and the characters in the book
We do quizes, crosswords and vocabulary building exercise based on what we are reading
We carry out written assignments based on the book/play/poem
We discuss and critically analyze what we read or have seen on film
We study an historical period
We read about people who have been  important  in our cultures
We create a multimedia presentation of a theme in Photo Story or Movie Maker
We analyze a theme (see below)
We record poems we read

Here are a few of the themes we have explored:

The Tudors
We study and analyze the Tudor period and the events that transformed English society - the Reformation, the break with Rome, the six wives of Henry VIII, the Dissolution of the monasteries, the impact of new technology on social and political change.
Text based information is taken from the Internet. We also watch and discuss Professor David Starkey's Channel 4 production of "The Six Wives of Henry VIII".
http://www.channel4.com/history/microsites/S/sixwives/

Shakespeare
We study and analyse a Shakespeare play and write a synopsis of each act. We also watch and discuss a film version of the particular play.
Some of our studies will cover the life of Shakespeare the man and the times in which he lived.
Leading us will be Michael Wood who produced and directed the acclaimed BBC series "In Search of Shakespeare" http://www.mayavisionint.com/Catalogue/In_Search_of_Shakespeare/index.html

The Atlantic Slave Trade
We study and analyse the trade, the main players and the victims' journey to the New World. We discuss the causes and the responsibility.  We also watch and discuss the first 3 episodes of the TV series Roots http://www.museum.tv/archives/etv/R/htmlR/roots/roots.htm

Pupils will carry out assignments based on the term's studies or produce a multimedia presentation in Photo Story or Movie Maker

Other themes include:

The Great Plague
The Elephant Man
Animal Farm
The Titanic
The Bowden Murders
UFOs
The Maria Celeste Mystery
Loch Ness
Stonehenge
Julius Caesar
Macbeth