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Building the West Barns Curriculum

Our school is committed to improving the curriculum to provide the best learning opportunities for our students. This includes focused teaching of literacy and numeracy skills, cooperative learning, personal development, and inter-disciplinary learning. We aim to create confident individuals, responsible citizens, effective contributors, and successful learners.

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Building the West Barns Curriculum

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  1. Building the West Barns Curriculum

  2. We have been looking at how we can improve our school to help you learn and achieve.

  3. Our Learners are at the centre of everything we do

  4. You need good skills in these subjects to give you the best opportunities in life

  5. Literacy

  6. Focussed teaching of reading skills • Orkney Reading Guidelines • WB Pupil Reading Skills progression • Opportunities to apply reading skills in different contexts • Focused support where needed • Jolly Phonics programme • Pupils working in reading ability groups across classes • Muckle Reading • Accelerated Reader • Paired Reading Programme • Peer Reading • New reading resources • New school library • World Book Day • Teachers planning reading together • Teachers moderating reading together in our school and with other schools

  7. Focussed teaching of writing skills • Orkney Writing Guidelines • Write to the Top targets • Focused support where needed • Opportunities to apply writing skills in different contexts • Teachers planning writing together • Teachers moderating writing together across the school • Whole school approach to presentation and handwriting

  8. Orkney Listening and Talking Guidelines • Cooperative Learning • Focused support where needed • School Committees • Class presentations • School assemblies • School performances • Visitors to school • School trips • Rotary Quiz • Presentation to Education Committee • French and German lessons • Mandarin Project

  9. Numeracy

  10. WB pupil maths skills progression • Focussed support when needed • Heinemann Active Maths • Number Counts • Study Ladder • Opportunities to apply skills in other contexts • Spring Maths Challenge • New maths resources

  11. Health and Wellbeing

  12. Team West Barns • Personal targets • Wellbeing wheel survey • Cooperative Learning • Outdoor learning • Golden Rules and Golden Time • Playground Rules • Creating Confident Kids • Achievement Assemblies • E-profiles • Learning Journeys • Circle Time • Paired Reading • Team Tuesday • Acorn Group • Riding Therapy • Multisport • Transition activities • School Committees • Whole school approach to teaching HWB • Health Week • Class Topics • Keeping Myself Safe • Living and Growing • Child Line • Road Safety • School visitors • Risk Factory • House challenges • School performance • School assemblies • John Muir Award • 2 hours PE per week • Sports taster sessions • After schools clubs • Football team • Walk once a week • Outdoor education • Bikeability • Swimming lessons • Physical Friday • School Garden • Farm to Fork visits • Cooking activities • General school hygiene routines • Local Health Board checks • Eco Group • Burns Supper • Christmas Dinner • Festival celebrations • Diversity food tasting • First Aid • E-safety • World of Work Day

  13. Through your learning you will become…

  14. Confident Individuals

  15. Reading • Writing • Listening and Talking • Modern Foreign Languages

  16. Responsible Citizens

  17. Reading • Writing • Listening and Talking • Modern Foreign Languages

  18. EffectiveContributors

  19. Reading • Writing • Listening and Talking • Modern Foreign Languages

  20. Successful Learners

  21. Reading • Writing • Listening and Talking • Modern Foreign Languages

  22. You will also develop…

  23. Skills for Learning

  24. Skills for Life

  25. Skills for Work

  26. Scottish schools have their own special Curriculum for Excellence

  27. What is a curriculum?All the different learning experiences that we plan for you

  28. It includes…

  29. Ethos and life of the school as a community …

  30. How we all learn and behave in school

  31. Team West Barns – our new Vision Values and Aims developed by pupils, families and staff • Our Golden Rules and Golden Time • Playground Rules chosen by pupils • Encouraging parents to have greater involvement in the school • Stronger school and community links • Pupils committees • Cooperative Learning • Developing closer links with other cluster schools • School House events • School sports teams

  32. The curriculum areas

  33. The different areas of learning

  34. Languages and Literacy • Numeracy • Health and Wellbeing • Social Studies • Science • Religious and Moral Education • Expressive Arts • Technologies

  35. Inter-disciplinary Learning

  36. This gives you an opportunity to make links in your learning or use you knowledge and skills differently

  37. Based on your learning questions • Cooperative learning opportunities • Joint projects between classes • Use local community and environment • Makes relevant links between the different things you learn • Gives you the opportunity to apply literacy and numeracy skills in different situations

  38. Opportunities for Personal Achievement

  39. Learning Journeys • Personal targets • Achievement assemblies • Stars of the Week • Reading awards • School assemblies and performances • School committees • Golden Time • House events • Sports teams • Cooperative Learning • Transition activities • Paired Reading Project • Peer Reading project • Library monitors • House Captains • Accelerated Reader • House points/DoJo Points • Team Tuesday • Acorn Project • Riding Therapy

  40. ValuesWisdom, justice, compassion and integrity

  41. Our curriculum is underpinned by the values inscribed on the mace of the Scottish Parliament - wisdom, justice, compassion and integrity.

  42. We encourage these through our: • Golden Rules • Classroom Rules • Playground Rules • School Vision, Values and Aims

  43. Experiences and Outcomes

  44. These describe the knowledge, experiences and skills that you will develop in 8 different learning areas

  45. You will develop the knowledge and skills through: • Pupil learning questions and ideas • Carefully planned learning activities • Using the local environment and community • Opportunities to link areas of your learning together

  46. Expressive Arts

  47. Participation in Performances and Presentations • Art and Design • Dance • Music • Drama

  48. Languages andLiteracy

  49. Reading • Writing • Listening and Talking • Modern Foreign Languages

  50. Mathematics and Numeracy

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