Our Curriculum
Pupils’ learning and development should be at the heart of every school’s curriculum; it should be broad and balanced and equip pupils with the skills necessary to succeed in life after school.
We offer our children a broad and balanced curriculum covering all National Curriculum subjects. From Year 1 onwards, children have daily maths and English lessons whilst, in Year R, children have daily opportunities to complete activities which will help them to develop their early reading, writing and maths skills. English is taught as a distinct subject but also across the whole curriculum in order for the children to practice their skills. Phonics is taught from Nursery, continuing throughout KS1 and into KS2 if necessarily for some children.
As well as the core subjects, we also teach the foundation subjects of: history, geography, computing, design technology, music, art, PE, RE, PHSE, French, Philosophy for Children and Mindfulness (KS2).
To find out more about our individual subjects, click the links below:
Extra Curricular Activities
We also offer a range of extra-curricular activities and clubs, such as; sports clubs including basketball, table tennis, tag rugby, cricket and football; music lessons using Medway Dynamics who teach recorders, samba and brass; and trips, such as a KS2 trip to a London theatre.
Topic Map
Teachers try to use a cross curricular approach when planning so that all lessons link to a common theme wherever possible. To aid this, we create a Topic Map each year, which outlines the theme for each term in each year group. Our current Topic Map is as follows:
Phonics and Spelling
Deanwood is a Read Write Inc school. We use the Read Write Inc (RWI) scheme to teach our children to read and spell. We assess all children accessing the scheme every term to determine which group they should be in. This ensures the teaching is closely targetted at their ability and supports them to make good progress. Each term, we put a sticker in your child's reading record so you know which group they will be in during the following term.
We use Oxford Owl to provide digital access to all of the books your child has previously read so you can revisit them at any time. There are also quizzes to support and assess your child's understanding of the books they have read. This can be accessed via:
https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/login?active-tab=students
The log in information for this website should be in your child's reading record. If you are unable to find this, please speak to your child's class teacher.
Reading Week
Please find a video showcasing the fantastic work which our children produced during Reading Week 2022.