our Curriculum Aims
●Broaden the children’s understanding of the world. (Be Caring)
●Spark their curiosity and imagination (Be Curious)
●Teach the children how to work collaboratively (Be Cooperative)
●Prepare them for life after Underhill (Be Confident)
●Make them lifelong readers
●Increase and improve their oracy skills
●Build on their physical and mental fitness
What are we learning at Underhill?
There is always lots of exciting learning happening each day at Underhill. In the morning, the children focus on English and Maths and in the afternoon, the children learn the other foundation subjects. There are also lots of trips and experiences to enrich the children's learning along with special days, where we celebrate or mark religious festivals and other important days and events. Below you can see our curriculum maps, which will give you an overview of what your child will be learning this year.
Subject Overviews
English
At Underhill School we want our children to love reading and this is at the heart of our reading curriculum. We want all our children to be enthusiastic readers who read widely and frequently and take true pleasure in reading.
Maths
Get guidance to help your child with addition, subtraction, multiplication and division and find National Curriculum objectives for each year group with prompt sheets to explain some of the objectives.
PSHE (Personal, Social, Health and Economic Education)
We deliver our comprehensive PSHE curriculum under three areas: relationships education, health education and living in the wider world. We aim to produce confident individuals who know and understand how to live safe, happy, healthy, fulfilling lives.
Language and Communication
Being a confident communicator is essential and at Underhill, we ensure that there are lots of opportunities for children to develop their speaking and listening skills through their play and learning.
Other subject areas
The long term curriculum maps for each year group can be found in the file section below. Here you find out what your child will be learning this year!
Home Learning
FRED - Families Reading Every Day
We want all children to be confident, fluent readers so reading everyday is a must. Our aim is for all our children to be reading for at least 15 minutes everyday.
When children are developing their reading skills and fluency, we ask them to read the book assigned to them by their teacher and as they develop their fluency, they can choose the books they want to read for pleasure. When your child has completed their reading each day, they tick their Fred Book mark and bring it to school each day to show their teacher.
Homework
Each week, your child will be assigned homework on a Friday to completed in their homework book and brought back to school on a Wednesday for the teacher to acknowledge. The homework tasks will be shared with you on either Seesaw (EYFS and KS1) or Google Classroom (KS2)
The homework will include weekly spellings, phonics, maths, reading comprehension and grammar, and are based on what your child has been learning in school that week.
Support Home Learning
Underhill School has been offered free KS2 learning and 11+ support to primary school children who are eligible for Pupil Premium. Eligible students will receive access to Atom Home for free (normally £575.90 a year).
What is Atom Home?
Atom Home is an online learning and exam preparation platform for ages 7-11.Covering English, maths, verbal reasoning and non-verbal reasoning, children can practise 11+ questions and explore learning resources, mock tests, video tutorials, and exam preparation materials.It is a viable, more child-centric alternative to private tuition that we believe is a non-stressful and enjoyable way of making progress at KS2 and, when relevant, preparing for exams.
Pupil Premium Eligibility: You can sign up for your free Atom account by clicking on the ATOM Learning image.
After completing the form on the website, the school will receive a notification to verify your pupil premium eligibility and once that is confirmed, your Atom Home account will be created.
Non- Pupil Premium: In addition, there is a 5-day free trial of Atom available for non-PP families and you can also use the discount code: Underhill20 to receive 20% off your first month’s payment.
Do you know someone who is eligible?
If you know someone whose child is preparing for the 11+, or is in need of extra Key Stage 2 learning support (they do not need to be attending Underhill), please do share the above link with them:
If you would like to find out more about Atom Learning or have any questions, please email pupilpremium@atomlearning.com and they will be happy to help you.