About this curriculum

Through finding out about how and why the world, our country, cultures and local communities have developed overtime, our children leave Manadon Vale Primary School understanding how the past influences the present. This, we believe develops a context for their growing identities as they move thorough education and beyond. 

At Manadon Vale Primary School, we provide a comprehensive and engaging history curriculum that fosters a deep understanding of the past while nurturing our children’s curiosity and critical thinking skills. Our primary history curriculum is designed to incorporate an "Enquiry-Based Learning" approach, ensuring that substantive concepts run through the curriculum, building knowledge, and promoting a lifelong love for history.

The primary history curriculum focuses on substantive concepts that are fundamental to understanding the complexity and interconnectedness of historical events. These concepts are carefully integrated throughout the different year groups and topics, ensuring continuity and coherence in learning.

Teachers design lesson plans that encourage students to ask questions, investigate historical evidence, and draw conclusions. Enquiry-based activities, such as analysing primary sources and role-playing historical figures, are incorporated regularly. The history curriculum is integrated with other subjects, such as English, geography, and art, to reinforce substantive concepts and provide a holistic learning experience.

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If anyone is getting rid of their tinsel this Christmas, please could Foundation Stage have it for their Angel costume embellishments! 👼🎄
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🌍 Happy World Children’s Day! 🌟 Today, we celebrate the power, potential, and voices of children everywhere. It’s a day to remind ourselves of the importance of protecting and upholding children’s rights—every child deserves to feel safe, valued, and heard. At Manadon Vale Primary School, we are proud to champion the values of Rights Respecting Schools, empowering children to understand their rights and make their voices count.
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We were able to organise a last minute friendly for our girls' team. Thank you to the players that stepped up to play today! The girls were victorious 4-2. Well done all who played.
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🎼 🎄Music Club - Kickstart to Christmas 🎄🎼 I have sent an email out with a few reminders/updates to all grown-ups of children performing at the Kickstart event - please check your junk/spam folders! :) Many thanks - Miss Eastgate
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Unfortunately, we have just received news from Elburton that they have to cancel the girls' football match tomorrow due to unforeseen circumstances. Apologies for the late notice. I will be looking to reschedule, but also organise an in-house friendly at Manadon for the girls tomorrow afternoon. They should still come in kit for the friendly on our field.
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⭐️ REMINDER ⭐️ Foundation Stage and KS1 Christmas Nativity will be held on: 🎄Tuesday 10th December 2pm- 3pm 🎄Wednesday 11th December 9.30-10.30am Costume letters have gone out today!
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**Foundation Stage Parents and Carers** There are still a number of you who have not yet activated your Tapestry account. This means you may be missing important information. If you do not have a Tapestry account set up, please contact your child’s class teacher.
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🎄 KS2 Christmas Performance Dates 🎄 - Tuesday 17th December @ 9.30am - Thursday 19th December @ 2pm Booking seats will be available shortly :)
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Children in Need 2024! Featuring a few snippets from our PE session today. It was our first lesson learning how to safely play tag rugby!
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Today is Mufti Day⭐️ Every donation counts, no matter how small, for this amazing cause! 💛
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Reminder 'Open Reading Club' tonight in the school library 3:15-4pm. All year groups welcome. All children must be accompanied by an adult. Please sign up at the office on the way in as we can only take 15 families due to the size of the library. Hope to see you there. Thank you, Miss Harris. 🍵🍪
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Connect Academy Trust are running a competition across the eight schools in the Trust. They are asking children to design a Christmas card and will choose one lucky winner. The winning design will be printed and used as the Connect Academy Trust Christmas card for this year. If your child would like to enter they need to create a Christmas card design on A4 paper. They can use a variety of media (pens, colouring pencils, paint) and be creative as they like! They do not need to add any specific text or logo, this will be added to the winning design. Designs need to be given to the school office or class teachers by Thursday 21st November. We look forward to seeing lots of festive designs.
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How clever is our fabulous Mrs Richards for planning, organising and creating this huge wall display for all of our children and staff to see as they enter our hall? Each year group has their own tentacle; every child has their own loop 🌈🐙 Thank you, Mrs Richards, for this wonderful whole-school project! I think everyone can agree that it is utterly brilliant! 🌟
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Today, two of our school parliament members were selected to represent our school at a ‘Connect Council Meeting’ held at Eggbuckland Vale Primary School. They received their Connect Council badges and had the chance to meet and interact with other students their age representing schools from across the Connect Trust. During the meeting, a variety of ideas were shared, and the Council agreed on some common goals.📚✏️
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Orcas loved using iMotion to create animations during Computing today.
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Well done to Tamar house for winning the girls house football tournament. Second place went to Dart. all the girls who played in the house tournament have been fantastic. However, a special shout-out goes to the girls who stepped up to play for their house team despite not even liking football!
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❤️Year 2 have been working hard on creating acrostic poems in English. They have created a fabulous display to remember those who fought and died for our country. Well done year 2❤️
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