Curriculum Maps

English

• Literature, including story and poetry that explores human experience and response to life and death.
• Use of stillness and imagination in drama and other subjects to develop inner awareness.
• Expressing feeling and emotions through verbal and written communication, knowing that words can influence feelings.

Mathematics

• Enjoyment of and fascination by numbers, including the idea of infinity.
• Reflecting on pattern and order as well as a sense of mystery and space.
• Exploring the relationship of numbers, shape and objects and the possibility of inter-connectedness.
• Sense of achievement and self-worth at appropriate levels of understanding

Science

• Scientific links with a spiritual interpretation about the universe and life.
• Using the school grounds for reflection on relationships between people and their environment.
• Reflecting on the mystery of the natural world and physical worth, life cycles and growth.
• Awareness of physical self as wonderful.

Design Technology

• Sense of worth in human potential and achievement.
• Designing cards for religious festivals.
• Making holy books and other artefacts/special objects pleasure in physical constructions.
• Art in design: taking

Information Communications Technology

• Connectedness with people all over the world through the internet.
• Using programmes to create poems and pictures.
• Becoming independent and developing self-reliance.

History

• Ideas of change and development and re-creation.
• Understanding the importance of tradition to a community.
• Sense of time and awareness of personal place within it.

Geography

• How things came about, and a sense of wonder at the earth’s variety and order.
• Developing self-awareness and relationships with other cultures and environments.
• Appreciation of natural features e.g. lakes, woods

Art

• Idea of beauty in art.
• Appreciation of colour, shape and texture.
• Religious and spiritual ideas expressed in, e.g. stained glass windows. 
• Art as a means of expressing feelings, imagination and expressive thought.

Music

• Making music by singing together, songs and hymns with instruments.
• Listening to specific chosen pieces, and why people write music, e.g. Hallelujah chorus.
• Identifying feelings and emotions associated with different types of music.
• Using music as a background to times of quiet and reflection to develop awareness of the inner self.

Religious Education

• Knowledge of religious reflection, humanist ideas and spiritual practices, e.g. worship.
• Providing opportunities for experiencing space and silence to allow skills in reflection and awareness to develop.
• Meeting others who belong to other traditions.
• Providing opportunities for experiencing awe, wonder and transcendence.

Physical Education

• Spiritual awareness of body, its beauty and potential through activity and observation.
• Movement to express feelings and emotions including dancing for joy.
• Developing inner determination to do one’s best and recognise and develop one’s inner potential and strength.

Modern Foreign Languages

• Awareness of the beauty inherent in another language.
• The use of a different language to express thoughts slightly differently.

English

• Circle time skills in speaking and listening.
• Social interaction through play.
• Writing for and communicating with an audience.
• Group drama work, reading and discussion of social issues in literature.
• Stories to create awareness of a variety of life experiences, e.g. deafness.

Mathematics

• Maths games for social interaction, taking turns and sharing.
• Working in pairs and groups to gather information and solve problems.
• Recognising maths skills as a tool for society.

Science

• Investigation in groups, sharing skills and expertise.
• Science as a cooperative activity requiring communication and interaction.
• Science related to issues in society, e.g. alcohol abuse.

Design Technology

• Designing with others.
• Using technology to benefit others, e.g. handicapped.
• Information and Communications Technology
• Working co-operatively.
• Using data-handling skills to promote understanding of social issues.
• Poster design for safety.

History

• Exploring structures of society, including institutions, e.g. hospitals, hospices, work houses.
• Looking at children past and present.
• Understanding the influence of the past on the development of society today.

Geography

• Local studies to raise awareness of different homes, communities and family groupings.
• Local amenities: who are they for?
• Human influence on the landscape/local economy.
• Group fieldwork opportunities.

Art

• Art as a means of learning about people and society.
• Group collage.

Music

• Taking part in performances.
• Collaborative work and sharing resources.
• Group singing and composition.

Religious Education

• Knowing about and understanding the importance of family and traditions within religious faiths and social groups.
• Study of ideas of community in humanism religions.
• Researching charities and other religious and non-religious forms of social caring and responsibility.

Physical Education

• Participation in traditional and creative dance and pair and group work in gymnastics.
• Enjoyment of team games, showing co-operation, respect for others and their needs.

Modern Foreign Languages

• Comparing lifestyles and attitudes.
• Recognising similarities and differences between cultures, in terms of language use as well as social behaviour and issues.
• The ability to communicate directly with someone who speaks a different language.

English

• Discussion of right and wrong – moral issues exemplified in children’s literature.
• Skills of listening and forming evaluative judgements in discussion.
• Circle time discussion of behaviour and relationships.
• Dramatising situations which raise moral questions.

Mathematics

• Encouraging a sense of personal responsibility for their own learning in class and through homework.
• Encouraging honesty, not cheating.
• Awareness of manipulation of data statistics.

Science

• Thinking about experiments and investigations and their outcomes for humans.
• Caring for living things.
• Discussing issues raised by scientific discovery and progress, e.g. genetic engineering.

Design Technology

• Learning co-operation with others through activities.
• Technology as helpful and constructive as well as potentially destructive.

Information and Communications Technology

• Independent working to develop a sense of integrity and trustworthiness.
• Discussion of moral issues, e.g. correct information, pornography.

History

• Developing awareness of local, national and world issues.
• Encounter with ideas and encouragement to think through  a moral stance on issues, e.g. war and peace.

Geography

• Developing moral responsibility to care for the environment.
• Awareness of human exploitation, e.g. child labour in developing countries. Poverty amid affluence.
• Awareness of misuse of earth’s resources and human responses, e.g. recycling and deforestation.

Art

• Interpreting pictures which put a moral point of view.

Music

• Appreciation of music and respecting the ideas and judgements of others.
• Learning about and from the lives of composers.

Religious Education

• Stories with a moral message from other world religions.
• Ideas of right and wrong behaviour in world religions.
• Individual and corporate  responsibility within religious and other communities.
• Developing skills of listening, respecting and evaluative judging.

Physical Education

• Taking part in team games and obeying rules.
• Awareness of others’ needs, particularly physical.
• Encouragement to cheer, celebrate achievement and shake hands at the end of a game.
• Developing a sense of fair play, not hurting anyone.

Modern Foreign Languages

• Stories with a moral message from other countries.
• Current affairs and human responses to them within different countries.
• Awareness and understanding of fellow human beings living different lifestyles in different countries.

English

• Stories and literature form other cultures.
• Awareness of issues such as stereotyping and equal opportunities in literature.
• Language and meanings in different cultures.

Mathematics

• Creating Islamic patterns, rangoli patterns and using Roman numerals.
• Careful choice of resources and examples to include references to other cultures.
• Counting in a different language.

Science

• Differences and similarities between groups of humans.
• Animals from different countries.
• Creation stories from different cultures alongside current scientific thinking.
• Role of science in different cultures and religions.
• Scientific development in relation to others – water supplies, new varieties of flowers and food crops.

Design Technology

• The effectiveness of very simple technology in some cultures.
• Instruments from different countries, e.g. cooking utensils.
• Designs for different climates, e.g. sun hats.

Information and Communications Technology

• Assessing information about cultures by using technology  etc.
• Direct contact with children in other cultures through internet.

History

• The story of development of other cultures.
• Stories of religious leaders and their influence on cultures, both positive and negative.
• History of contribution of other cultures to science and maths.

Geography

• Study of people – especially children living in different countries and comparison with own cultural context.
• Developing an awareness and appreciation of different styles of everyday life.
• The influence of environment on societies.

Art

• Pictures from different cultures, e.g. African art.
• Visiting galleries and exhibitions to view art from different cultures.
• Art as an expression of culture, e.g. Nativity pictures on Nativity cards.

Music

• Music from different cultures, e.g. Calypso songs.
• Listening to and using instruments from other cultures.

Religious Education

• The study of different religions as part of a cultural tradition.
• Meeting people from a variety of faiths and cultures, and visiting places of worship.
• Exploring how religious and humanist ideas are expressed in different cultures, e.g. food, dress, festivals.

Physical Education

• Dance as an expression of culture, e.g. Indian folk.

Modern Foreign Languages

• The study of different food and eating habits, literature, leisure pursuits, fashion and life styles as part of a cultural tradition.
• Comparisons of attitudes, e.g. to schools and schooling in different countries.