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At Yarrow Primary School we are developing our teaching practice towards the new Curriculum for Excellence.  We do our best to provide a range of experiences for our young people which encourage active, independent and creative learning.  The purpose of the new Curriculum is to help the young people who join our school to become

  • Successful learners
  • Confident individuals
  • Responsible citizens
  • Effective contributors

The following information tells you about the topics which will be covered in each curriculum area this year.  Also attached are copies of the termly overviews which give more detail about individual topics being studied.  We hope that parents of our pupils might find this information useful when providing valuable encouragement and support to their children at home.

 

 Language                              

 

 

 

The language curriculum includes:

  • Extended Writing (Personal, Functional and Imaginative)
  • Reading
  • Listening and Talking
  • Comprehension
  • Spelling
  • Grammar and Technical Skills
  • Handwriting

  Maths

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ICT

 

 

The maths curriculum includes:

  • Addition, subtraction, multiplication, division
  • Weighing and measuring
  • Handling information
  • Working with shapes, position and movement
  • Problem solving

 

Pupils will focus on:

  • Keyboard skills
  • Creating and presenting
  • Using the internet to research and communicate
  • collecting and analysing data using software
  • controlling and modelling using technology and software

Environmental Studies

 

 

Our topics this year will be:

  • Plants
  • Ancient Egypt
  • Houses & Homes (P1-3)
  • Our Community (P4-7)
  • Energy (P1-3)
  • Electricity (P4-7)
  • Europe

 PSD & Health 

 

    Our topics this year will be:

  • Volunteers
  • Healthy Lifestyles
  • Personal Safety
  • First Aid
  • Differences and Discrimination

 R&ME

 

 

    Our topics this year will be:

  • What's new?  (P1-3)
  • Life as a journey (P4-7)
  • Hanukah (Judaism)
  • Christmas around the world.
  • Special Places (P1-3)
  • Places of Worship (P4-7)
  • Islam
  • Wesak (Buddhism)

 Art

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Music

 

 

 

Drama

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

P.E.

     This year our pupils will be studying the various techniques in art

     in the following order:

  • Fabric
  • Collage
  • Printing/Drawing
  • Painting
  • 3D

 

      Our pupils will be following the Scottish Borders Council music

      curriculum with the guidance of our specialist teacher Mrs McLelland.

 

 

 

      With the help of Miss Leisk, the pupils will be focusing on the different drama  

      techniques and linking these to their topics where possible:

  • Creating and Designing
  • Communicating and Presenting
  • Using Language
  • Using Movement and Mime
  • Evaluating and Appreciating

 

       In PE, the pupils will develop their skills in:

  • Games
  • Swimming
  • Social Dance
  • Creative Dance
  • Gymnastics
  • Athletics 

      

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