Our broad and balanced creative curriculum is driven by three principles:

Investigate the past,
Explore the present,
Create the future.

Our curriculum inspires a journey of life long learning

At Hindon School, we recognise that every pupil is on their own unique learning journey. We've developed a holistic approach that nurtures the whole child – academically, socially, emotionally and physically.

We support each child as they work towards key milestones and develop essential skills, preparing them not only for their next stage of education but for a lifetime of learning and opportunity.

English

Reading: We follow the Little Wandle Systematic Synthetic Phonics scheme to build strong phonics and early reading skills. Children are 'bench marked' termly to ensure that their reading and phonics levels match with the correct level of reading book. In Owls and Woodpecker classes (Years 2-6), fluency and a love of reading is further developed through our whole-class reading approach, inspired by Mary Myatt's 'A Faster Read' project. Children are immersed in high-quality, challenging literature and engage in rich discussion to develop their vocabulary and comprehension. We use VIPERS (Vocabulary, Inference, Prediction, Explain, Retrieve, Summarise) from Literacy Shed to structure our guided reading lessons, ensuring children develop a full range of reading skills. 

Children are also encouraged to read for pleasure by selecting a 'sharing book' to take home from our extensive school library and to select a Library Book from the Wiltshire Library Bus that visits the school every two weeks.

Spelling: We follow Spelling Zoo for national curriculum age-related spellings and children have their own individual spelling lists on their tables to support high frequency words and common exception words that they need to practise in free writing.

Writing: Writing at Hindon empowers children with the knowledge, skills and creativity to communicate with confidence and purpose. Writing skills are embedded through a carefully designed cycle of modelling, planning, drafting, revising and publishing, enabling children to make meaningful progress as authors. Language development sits at the heart of our approach, with ambitious vocabulary explicitly taught and used confidently by both staff and pupils to strengthen communication. Engaging, purposeful teaching ignites children's imagination and gives them real reasons to write.

The Hindon Writing Progression can be viewed below.

Maths

We teach maths using the White Rose Maths scheme of work. We use  Year Group WRM text books for children to record their workings of age related learning and mastery thinking questions as well as individual exercise books for children to show their workings when answering Deeper Learning reasoning questions. 

Pupils also apply their maths knowledge and skills to Topic subjects and STEM projects. 

Handwriting

At Hindon School, we believe in the importance of making handwriting automatic so that all the focus of the brain can be on writing content.

We follow the Kinetic Letters programme to develop the required physical skills for handwriting. From EYFS, every opportunity is taken to develop the required body strength to enable pupils to develop effective and sustained handwriting techniques, whether that be in the classroom, in PE lessons, swimming lessons or when moving through the school.

We teach our pupils how to pick up and hold the pencil in a specific way, consistent across the school. 

Religions and World Views

At Hindon CE VA Primary School we teach Religion and Worldviews in order to help prepare students to understand and confidently take their place in an increasingly complex world. Through a multi–disciplinary approach that promotes deep thinking and meaningful dialogue, we aim to teach children to think like a theologian, a social scientist and a philosopher and to ask big questions of themselves to help them develop their own worldview. As a result, RW at our school, is a vital part of our students’ journey towards becoming thoughtful, informed and respectful citizens.

We aim to:

• • Develop pupils’ knowledge and understanding of the beliefs and practices of a wide range of Christians and people of other principal world religions, and non-religious worldviews in our local, national and wider global community.
  • Enable pupils to explain how beliefs and practices can inform and change the way people see the world and the way they live and treat others.
  • Help pupils to develop their own sense of identity and belonging.
  • Help pupils to gain an understanding of differences held within a religious or non-religious worldview and of the similarities of beliefs and practices held in common by people within and across traditions.
  • Equip pupils to be sensitive to others’ beliefs, be able to express their own views well, be open-minded and respectful, show curiosity and have the skills to ask appropriate questions when meeting people different to themselves.
  • Recognise and build on children’s prior learning, opinions and experiences, provide first-hand learning experiences and encourage children to develop their thinking in the three key strands of RW (theology, philosophy and the social sciences) whilst exploring and enriching their own beliefs and values.
  • Develop spirituality.

Wider Curriculum

Please view Class Pages for Long Term and Medium Term Curriculum Plans.