Overview
On this page you will find our Curriculum plans for the Key Stage, which are a bank of overviews showing what our students will cover during the academic year ahead. Included in the Curriculum plans are a list of topics, assessments, timings and references to additional resources that teachers use. This helps create a transparent, long term overview of what students will be learning here at Nadeen School.
As your child moves into KS1, they will continue to experience play-based learning and, in addition, will be introduced to our more formal curriculum so that they can begin to understand their learning in more depth. We have a stimulating learning environment, both inside and outside, in order to encourage role play, problem solving, creative play and independent learning. We teach the English national curriculum, which we adapt to our needs and enrich with extra-curricular activities, trips and special days. We cater for the needs of all children through extensive programmes of learning support and English as an additional language alongside plenty of challenge and exciting extension activities.
Curriculum Plans
Year 1
Subject | Overview | Textbook/Resources link | Additional |
English | Year 1 English Overview | Babcock and Oxford Reading Tree | Age Related Expectations |
Mathematics | Year 1 Mathematics Overview | White Rose Mathematics | Age Related Expectations |
CCS | Year 1 CCS Overview | Education City | Age Related Expectations |
Music | Year 1 Music Overview | UK National Curriculum | Studying, Composing and Performing |
PE | Year 1 PE Overview | UK National Curriculum | PE Skills, Physically Active and Healthy |
Arabic | Year 1 Arabic Overview | MOE Curriculum | MOE Reading |
Year 2
Subject | Overview | Textbook/Resources link | Additional |
English | Year 2 English Overview | Babcock and Oxford Reading Tree | Age Related Expectations |
Mathematics | Year 2 Mathematics Overview | White Rose Mathematics | Age Related Expectations |
CCS | Year 2 CCS Overview | Education City | Age Related Expectations |
Music | Year 2 Music Overview | UK National Curriculum | Studying, Composing and Performing |
PE | Year 2 PE Overview | UK National Curriculum | PE Skills, Physically Active and Healthy |
Arabic | Year 2 Arabic Overview | MOE Curriculum | MOE Reading |
Curriculum in Blocks
We teach in three-week blocks, each centered around a Big Question that stimulates curiosity, excitement and challenge in an integrated and cross-curricular way, and around a core text that inspires and develops our reading and writing, and around a mathematical theme.
Examples of some of the Big Questions that KS1 have examined:
Can you paint a poem?
What are you made of?
Is there more land or more sea?
The age-related expectation (ARE) documents below indicate the expected standards for where children should be by the end of the year in Maths and English, set by the National Curriculum of England. The Learning Behaviours stem from The 8 Cs, the foundation of the educational journey that our children make at Nadeen School. At times there is a slight overlap between the year groups