British values and excellent moral behaviours are at the heart of our school ethos. We believe our core Christian values Loving and caring, Courage, Compassion, Honesty, Thankfulness, Generosity, Respect and Forgiveness are values for life which support British values. Our School community aims to inspire and nuture the love of learning and to develop the full potential of all. We encourage our children to be confident, tolerant and resilient. We have extremely high expectations that our children will be well behaved, well-mannered, empathetic and inclusive at all times.

Through our worship and PSCE curriculum the children explore issues linked to British values. We have worked with local JPs to foster the understanding of right and wrong on the ‘Think before you act’ program. We hold elections in school whenever there is a general election where pupils are encouraged to share their views and learn to be tolerant of the views of others. The children also learn about local, national and global issues and learn about diversity and opportunity.

The whole school community is encouraged to think about and help those less fortunate than ourselves. We support a range of charities which include, locally the Malton food bank and St, Martin’s Hospice, further afield we send shoes boxes to Romania through children in Distress and support Burundi school for the deaf in Kenya. We also take part in national days such as Christmas jumper day and Sport relief.

The children are strongly encouraged to draw from faith, whatever that may be, and understand that we all live in different ways.

Our children are also taught to be confident in their own views without falling out, an important skill to take through to adulthood.

Literacy

At Gillamoor CE school we make our literacy lessons exciting to ensure that our pupils are engaged and keen to make progress. Pupils in Years 1 – 6 follow the 2014 National Curriculum for Literacy. EYFS follow the Early learning goals. We do not use a published scheme of work, instead we use a range of resources to create bespoke lessons that target the individual needs of our pupils.

The children are given weekly spellings with a homework sheet that helps them with the definition of the word and gives them other useful information about word families and word structure.  A weekly spelling test is takes place most weeks.

Reading

Reading is really important at Gillamoor CE primary and children are encouraged to read at home with family members. This is then followed by guided reading and 1:1 reading with an adult in school

SPAG

Spelling, punctuation and grammar – this follows the National Curriculum and teaching of this is incorporated into literacy lessons. High standards of SPAG are expected in all curriculum lessons, regardless of the subject.

Phonics

Phonics starts from Reception (phase 2) and continues through the school until phase 6.

In the infant Class we use discrete phonic teaching as a starting point. Learning is linked to stories and texts wherever possible and ideas are formulated throughout the week using talk, reading and writing to improve the basic skills of all children. Our guided reading approach uses the best of many schemes.

Home readers are colour coded and draw from similar schemes and ORT primarily.

STEM Week Infants

Stem Week Tuesday

Stem Week Monday

Long Term Plan – Science

Based on NYCC Long Term Plan – Science

Where applicable some changes or single lessons on certain topics may be necessary to fill in gaps for some children and in co-ordination with other subjects, particularly class topics.

Swimming and Gym Awards 2019

January 2019 BAGA Gymnastics awards

Award 8 – Charlie, Anna, Leo, Ronnie

Award 7 – Chloe, Iris

Award 6 – Jack B, Rufus, Fern, Lucinda, Oscar, Nathan, Mollie, Nancy, Jack F, Seth, Darcey

Award 5 – Poppy, Simeon, Daithi, Connor, Ryan, Oliver J, Benjamin, Sebastian,

Award 4 – Elsie, Obie, Callum, Lewis, Georgia, Natalia, Laura, Reece, Jessie, Eve, Anja

Award 3 – Tyler, Tilly, Oliver B, Olivia Sempers, Abi

Award 2 Becky, Olivia Strickland

Swimming Awards 2018

100% of Gillamoor CE Year 6 pupils achieved the swimming standard

Pupils should be taught to:

• swim competently, confidently and proficiently over a distance of at least 25 metres
• use a range of strokes effectively [for example, front crawl, backstroke and breaststroke]
• perform safe self-rescue in different water-based situations

Honours – Ed

Gold – Archie, Olivia Sempers

Silver – Olivia Strickland

Bronze – Simeon

1000m – Elisabeth

Level 7 – Alice, Oliver J, Laura

Level 5 – Natalia, Lewis, Obie, Abi, Eve

Level 4 – Benjamin, Ryan, Becky, Georgia, Tyler, Connor, Seth, Lucinda, Jessie

Level 3 – Daithi, Oscar

Level 2 – Rufus, Jack B, Jack F

Level 1 – Nathan, Fern

Gillamoor PE curriculum starting September 2017

Infants

Juniors

The school regularly takes part in Ryedale cluster sports competitions at Ryedale School and also competitions with other small schools in the Howardian small schools alliance. This is usually in addition to timetabled PE lessons. These competitions are for Key stage 1 and 2.

Swimming 2016/17-

100% of Gillamoor CE Year 6 pupils achieved the swimming standard

Pupils should be taught to:

• swim competently, confidently and proficiently over a distance of at least 25 metres
• use a range of strokes effectively [for example, front crawl, backstroke and breaststroke]
• perform safe self-rescue in different water-based situations

2016/17 Gymnastics and swimming awards

BAGA gymnastics awards.Well done everyone

Award 8 Jack F, Rufus, Lucinda, Daithi, Connor, Eve

Award 7 Abi

Award 6 Lewis, Simeon, Oliver, Benjamin, Ryan

Award 5 Georgia, Becky, Olivia St, Olivia Se, Obie, Tyler, Natalia, Laura, Elisabeth, Alice, Ed

Award 4 Esme, Hannah, Mooie, Megan, Rosie

Award 1 Emilia, Jasmine

Swimming awards Well done everyone

Stage 1 Jack F, Jack B, Rufus

Stage 2 Jessie, Lucinda, Connor, Daithi

Stage 3 Tyler, Ryan, Benjamin, Georgia, Becky, Lewis

Stage 4 Natalia, Obie, Eve, Abi, Simeon

Stage 5 Mooie, Alice, Esme

Stage 6 Hannah

Stage 7 Jasmine, Emilia, Rosie, Elisabeth

Bronze challenge Olivia St

Silver challenge Laura, Megan, Olivia Se, Oliver

Gold challenge Ed

EYFS/KS1 2 year rolling program 2017-2020

RE topics may change within the academic year to fit better with termly class topics.

Spring 1 Whole school focus the religion for this will change each cycle. Islam, Judaism, Sikhism.

Key Stage 2 4 year rolling programme

Spring 1 Whole school focus the religion for this will change each cycle. Islam, Judaism, Sikhism.

Please click here to view our Arts and Technology curriculum.

Long Term Plan – Key Stage 2 Topic

Where applicable extra small topics may be included depending on current affairs.

Our French lessons work on a rolling two year programme that is split with years 3 and 4 together and years 5 and 6 together. This means that children will not do the same topic twice. Some lessons are taught split and others are taught with all four year groups together but differentiated activities if the topics are similar.

We teach a curriculum based on North Yorkshire’s Primary School Key Stage 2 programme.

Three core themes

Health and wellbeing (HW)                                    Relationships (R)                                         Living in the wider world (LWW)

Keeping safe runs throughout eg e safety ongoing through ICT. Cooking through cooking sessions with Mrs Turner. Sun safe throughout summer. Water safety through swimming and annual visits from RNLI. Fire service and Police visits. Annual childline/NSPCC assembly.

Additional activities

Year 6 Annual Crucial crew

Year 5 & 6 Biannual Bikeability, childline, IMPS Scarborough hospital.

Units may be moved around within the year to fit better with topics

Infants

Juniors