A subject-specific curriculum

From September 2021, the St Michael's Curriculum moved away from a topic-based curriculum to a subject-specific curriculum. Each week, children from Year 1 will have lessons in the foundation subjects of Geography or History*, Art or DT*, Science, RE (Religious Education), Music, PE (Physical Education), PSHE (Personal Social, Health and Economic education), Computing and also French in KS2. There are also daily lessons for English writing, Reading and Mathematics. 

* In a given half term, children will be taught either geography or history, and either art of DT. 

Units of work

The foundation curriculum subjects are broken into units, which usually cover half a term, although some may run for the whole term. These have either been carefully designed by our subject leaders or follow a set scheme. Our current schemes are:

- Language Angels for French

- Get Set for PE for PE 

- Music Express for music 

- Understanding Christianity and Discovery RE in Religious Education

Lessons are often adapted from the set scheme to suit the needs of our pupils. 

More information

A detailed breakdown of each subject's implementation can be found in the subject pages linked from our Main Curriuclum Page.