Welcome to our Curriculum page. Here you will find information about our curriculum at Brighstone. Each subject has an intent, implementation and impact statement (see below). These tell you how each subject is taught at Brighstone, and what our intended impact is.
If you would like to find out about the curriculum and topics in each class, please visit the class pages.
Below the curriculum statements, you will find information about our music provision and RE provision, as well as useful hints and tips for various subjects (these are added to regularly).
STOP PRESS – BIOSPHERE BIG SING!
Here you will find the PPTs and song music so you can practise with your song sheets ready for the Biosphere Big Sing concert on Friday 20th May.
A huge thanks to Martyn Stroud for producing this video of last year’s Year 3 pupils whole class brass music, as well as some Y5 pupils. Well done to all!
Curriculum statements
(please click on the pictures or PDF links to read the documents in full)
Whole Curriculum Intent, Implementation and Impact
English Curriculum Intent, Implementation and Impact
Mathematics Curriculum Intent, Implementation and Impact
Science Curriculum Intent, Implementation and Impact
RSE and PSHE Curriculum Intent, Implementation and Impact
RE Curriculum Intent, Implementation and Impact
DT Curriculum Intent, Implementation and Impact
Music Curriculum Intent, Implementation and Impact
History Curriculum Intent, Implementation and Impact
RE
Living Difference IV
The Agreed Syllabus for religious education (RE) in Hampshire, the Isle of Wight, Portsmouth and Southampton
Living Difference IV is the legal document to be followed for the teaching of religious education in Hampshire, the Isle of Wight, Portsmouth and Southampton schools.
Living Difference IV, rather than being a precise prescription, offers a set of principles for teachers to make their curriculum to ensure religious education is open to the plurality of ways in which people live in our local, national and international communities.
Living Difference IV describes an approach for teaching, seeking to explain the educational value not only of children engaging with new material intellectually, but also of them becoming better able to discern what is desirable for their own lives, and with others, for the world.
Living Difference IV seeks to introduce children and young people to what a religious way of looking at, and existing in, the world may offer in leading one’s life, individually and collectively.
It recognises and acknowledges that the question as to what it means to lead one’s life with such an orientation can be answered in a number of qualitatively different ways.
These include the idea that:
– to live a religious life means to subscribe to certain propositional beliefs (religion as truth)
– to live a religious life means to adhere to certain practices (religion as practice)
– to live a religious life is characterised by a particular way of being in and with the world: with a particular kind of awareness of, and faith in, the world and in other human beings (religion as existence).
Living Difference IV recognises the link between religious education and rights respecting education (RRE).
Schools are currently using Living Difference III, and Living Difference IV is required to be in place in September 2022. Our staff are undergoing training and curriculum plans are in the process of being created to be in line with this updated syllabus.
Please click on the links below to access the Living Difference syllabus documents as well as the Living Difference website:
Living Difference III – December 2016
Living Difference HIAS website
Peripatetic music lessons
WMT has now taken over the invoicing and full service. The advantage of this is that you can liaise directly with tutors and our business administrator/manager. Lesson plans/tuition videos can be sent directly to parents and any queries you may have can be answered quickly.
10x Group lessons (20mins) = £80
10x individual lessons (20mins) = £122
To sign up for music lessons please apply at www.iwmt.org.uk Lessons will continue to take place in school (as was the case before the Covid pandemic). On behalf of all WMT members we are looking forward to teaching in schools again.
If you would like an informal chat with Caroline, please feel free to phone or email as follows:
Caroline Hales – 07785778222
caroline@iwmt.org.uk
First Access Music Lessons
Year 3 and Year 4 currently take part in whole class First Access music lessons through Wight Music Tuition, as part of the school’s music curriculum.
Year 3 – Brass lessons with Mr Stroud
Year 4 – Ukulele lessons with Mrs Jackaman
Mr Stroud has also created some videos for the Y3 children that they can use to keep practising at home! These are available on the Y3/4 class page.
If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact the school office.
Useful documents
10 Tips on Hearing Your Child Read, with Questions to Ask
10 Tips on Helping Your Child Become a Keen Writer
PSHE, Relationships and Sex Education Policy – Parent Consultation