At Lindsworth School, our aim as a KS2 team is to deliver a high quality curriculum that allows learners to both enjoy and achieve. Our key goals include:
In 2020-21, KS2 have achieved these goals. Pupils have flourished under our ethos; developing their social skills and confidence through appropriate challenges in lessons, positive promotion of respect and tolerance in school and opportunities for enrichment activities outside of school, including sledging, horse riding and water sports.
Curriculum
In KS2, our thematic cross curricular approach provides different challenges and learning opportunities for our pupils. Learning is interlinked, encouraging pupils to learn and apply different skills across a range of lessons and tasks. Our pupils also have the opportunity to take part in an educational trip each half term for each topic.
Below are our curriculum themes for 2021-22:
What you can do to help at home
Reading: It is vitally important that our pupils are reading as much as possible. Reading diaries will be sent home to encourage pupils to read and log the amount of time they have spent on this. An encouraging ear for this is so important. Further reading interventions that can be accessed at home include Bug Club; an online resource to support development of reading and spelling. Each week, pupils will be sent home with key spelling words for their age group; it is vital they practise these so that they can be successful in class!
Maths: As a school, we have access to multiple online platforms that allow learners to develop all aspects of their numeracy skills, including My Maths, Manga Maths and Times Tables Rockstars. Using these at home can only help your child progress further in Maths.
https://www.mangahigh.com/en-gb/
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk
https://www.educationumbrella.com/reading-schemes/bug-club-homepage
https://whiterosemaths.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/sols/primary/Year-5-2018-19-Autumn-Term_v3.pdf
In our KS2 unit we believe strongly about starting interventions as soon as possible so that the young people can learn about self-regulation, self-confidence, anger management, social skills and much more.
All pupils in KS2 participate in weekly circle time and social skills, anger management, Forest School therapy and celebration assemblies. We also offer individualised interventions such as mentoring, self-esteem, art therapy, Malachi mentoring and anger management.
In KS2 we offer a varied enrichment programme. Our aim is to help our young people build resilience, social skills and social awareness, as well as learning new skills and strategies to help self-regulate all whilst having fun and new experiences.
Our enrichment programme includes
Cooking
Gardening
Forest School
Horse riding and therapy
Rock climbing
Yoga
Cycling
Kayaking
A big aim of ours in KS2 is to recognise gaps in the young people’s learning history and build bridges to support that. Many of the pupils joining us have gaps in their educational knowledge and their curriculum knowledge, particularly in key skills. We run daily interventions to support this using Froggy Maths, Rapid Reader and Rapid Phonics as well as differentiated learning, interventions and support.
