Information about Art & Design/Design & Technology at Castilion is currently being updated and will be available here soon.

Information about computing at Castilion is currently being updated and will be available here soon.

Castilion Primary School’s English Curriculum

At Castilion Primary School, Reading and Writing are prioritised to allow pupils to access and respond to the full curriculum offer. A rigorous and sequential approach to the reading and writing curriculum develops pupils’ fluency, confidence and enjoyment in reading and writing. The curriculum is successfully adapted to be ambitious and meet the needs of pupils with SEND. Through the use of the schools I do, We do, You do teaching strategy, teachers model new procedures and use resources and approaches that enable pupils to understand the English they are learning. At all stages, English is assessed and gaps are addressed quickly and effectively for all pupils. 

Information about geography at Castilion is currently being updated and will be available here soon.

Castilion Primary School’s Music Curriculum

At Castilion Primary School we teach music using the Charanga Music Programme. This programme is the UK’s leading scheme to teach the national curriculum for music at KS1–2. The aims of this scheme are to ensure all pupils:

• perform, listen to, review and evaluate music across a range of historical periods, genres, styles and traditions, including the works of the great composers and musicians
• learn to sing and to use their voices, to create and compose music on their own and with others, have the opportunity to learn a musical instrument, use technology appropriately and have the opportunity to progress to the next level of musical excellence
• understand and explore how music is created, produced and communicated, including through the inter-related dimensions: pitch, duration, dynamics, tempo, timbre, texture, structure and appropriate musical notations.

Additionally, all children across the school take part in a weekly singing lesson provided by a professional music teacher from the Bexley Music Hub.

Castilion Primary School’s French Language Curriculum

At Castilion Primary School we teach French using the Rigolo French Language Programme. This programme is the UK's number 1 Primary French programme and is a three-star winner of the Teach Primary Resource Awards. The scheme meets the requirements of the national curriculum for languages for KS2 and aims to ensure that all KS2 pupils:

• understand and respond to spoken and written language from a variety of authentic sources
• speak with increasing confidence, fluency and spontaneity, finding ways of communicating what they want to say, including through discussion and asking questions, and continually improving the accuracy of their pronunciation and intonation
• can write at varying length, for different purposes and audiences, using the variety of grammatical structures that they have learnt
• discover and develop an appreciation of a range of writing in the language studied

Castilion Primary School’s Mathematics Curriculum

At Castilion Primary School, curriculum planning for mathematics carefully sequences knowledge, concepts and procedures to build mathematical knowledge and skills systematically. The curriculum is successfully adapted to be ambitious and meet the needs of pupils with SEND. Pupils who may be behind age-related expectations are provided with the opportunities to learn the mathematical knowledge and skills necessary to catch up with their peers. Through the use of the schools I do, We do, You do teaching strategy, teachers model new procedures and use resources and approaches that enable pupils to understand the mathematics they are learning. At all stages, mathematics is assessed and gaps are addressed quickly and effectively for all pupils. 

Castilion Primary School’s Physical Education Curriculum

At Castilion Primary School, curriculum planning for physical education carefully sequences the skills and processes specified within each key stage. The curriculum is successfully adapted to be ambitious and meet the needs of pupils with SEND.  In line with the national curriculum for physical education,  physical education planning at Castilion Primary School aims to ensure that all pupils:

• develop competence to excel in a broad range of physical activities
• are physically active for sustained periods of time
• engage in competitive sports and activities
• lead healthy, active lives

DfE’s statutory guidance on relationships education, relationships and sex education and health education

The school has consulted with parents in relation to the DfE’s statutory guidance on relationships education, relationships and sex education and health education. 

Castilion Primary is teaching the requirements of the National Curriculum for Science:

The content set out in this guidance covers everything that primary schools should teach about relationships and health, including puberty. The national curriculum for science also includes subject content in related areas, such as the main external body parts, the human body as it grows from birth to old age (including puberty) and reproduction in some plants and animals.

Castilion Primary is teaching:

The fundamental characteristics of positive relationships, strengthening the understanding that children will be developing at home.

‘Primary schools should take account of the age limits in the secondary RSHE curriculum tables, to ensure that no inappropriate content is taught.’

Castilion Primary is not teaching sex education

The Relationships Education, RSE, and Health Education (England) Regulations 2019 have made Relationships Education compulsory in all primary schools. Sex education is not compulsory in primary schools.  

Information about R.E. at Castilion is currently being updated and will be available here soon.

Castilion Primary School’s Science Curriculum

At Castilion Primary School, curriculum planning for science carefully sequences knowledge, concepts and procedures to build scientific knowledge and skills systematically. The curriculum is successfully adapted to be ambitious and meet the needs of pupils with SEND.  In line with the national curriculum for science, science planning at Castilion Primary School aims to ensure that all pupils:

• develop scientific knowledge and conceptual understanding through the specific disciplines of biology, chemistry and physics
• develop understanding of the nature, processes and methods of science through different types of science enquiries that help them to answer scientific questions about the world around them
• are equipped with the scientific knowledge required to understand the uses and implications of science, today and for the future

Through the use of the schools I do, We do, You do teaching strategy, teachers model new procedures and use resources and approaches that enable pupils to understand the scientific concepts they are learning. At all stages, science is assessed and gaps are addressed quickly and effectively for all pupils.