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Valley Gardens Middle School

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  • Our school
    • Welcome
    • About Us
    • International Dimension
    • Information
      • Our Vision
      • Public Calendar
      • Governing Body
      • Admissions
      • School Prospectus
      • Important Policies
      • Achievements
      • Term Dates
      • Uniform
      • PE and Sport Premium
      • Public Sector Duty
      • Financial Information
      • Remote Learning
      • Personal Development at Valley Gardens Middle School
      • Young Carers
    • Core Values
      • Kindness
      • Resilience
      • Respect
    • British Values
    • SEN & Disability
    • Pastoral Structure
    • Ofsted Report
    • Pupil Premium
    • Staff
    • Performance Tables
    • School Council
    • Careers
    • Contact us
  • Curriculum
  • Safeguarding
    • Safeguarding
    • Digital Safeguarding
    • Report a safeguarding concern
    • Mental Health Support Pathway
    • Lockdown, evacuation and invacuation
    • Signposting & Resources
  • Extra Curricular
    • Clubs Timetable
    • School Trips
  • Parents
    • Events
    • Charity
    • Sustainable Travel
      • Travel Plan
      • Go Smarter For Parents
      • VGMS Go Smarter Map
    • Letters Home
    • Breakfast and After School Care
    • Year 4 Transition
    • Attendance and Absence
    • Homework
    • Rewards and Sanctions
    • School Day
    • School Meals
    • Term Dates
    • Useful Forms
    • Behaviour
  • Vacancies
  • Reading at VGM
    • Reading at Valley Gardens
    • Key Stage 2
    • Key Stage 3
    • Phonics Strategy
    • VGMS Reading Strategy Overview
  • Important Policies
Valley Gardens Middle School Logo
  • Our school
    • Welcome
    • About Us
    • International Dimension
    • Information
      • Our Vision
      • Public Calendar
      • Governing Body
      • Admissions
      • School Prospectus
      • Important Policies
      • Achievements
      • Term Dates
      • Uniform
      • PE and Sport Premium
      • Public Sector Duty
      • Financial Information
      • Remote Learning
      • Personal Development at Valley Gardens Middle School
      • Young Carers
    • Core Values
      • Kindness
      • Resilience
      • Respect
    • British Values
    • SEN & Disability
    • Pastoral Structure
    • Ofsted Report
    • Pupil Premium
    • Staff
    • Performance Tables
    • School Council
    • Careers
    • Contact us
  • Curriculum
  • Safeguarding
    • Safeguarding
    • Digital Safeguarding
    • Report a safeguarding concern
    • Mental Health Support Pathway
    • Lockdown, evacuation and invacuation
    • Signposting & Resources
  • Extra Curricular
    • Clubs Timetable
    • School Trips
  • Parents
    • Events
    • Charity
    • Sustainable Travel
      • Travel Plan
      • Go Smarter For Parents
      • VGMS Go Smarter Map
    • Letters Home
    • Breakfast and After School Care
    • Year 4 Transition
    • Attendance and Absence
    • Homework
    • Rewards and Sanctions
    • School Day
    • School Meals
    • Term Dates
    • Useful Forms
    • Behaviour
  • Vacancies
  • Reading at VGM
    • Reading at Valley Gardens
    • Key Stage 2
    • Key Stage 3
    • Phonics Strategy
    • VGMS Reading Strategy Overview
  • Important Policies
Valley Gardens Middle School Logo
  • Our school
    • Welcome
    • About Us
    • International Dimension
    • Information
      • Our Vision
      • Public Calendar
      • Governing Body
      • Admissions
      • School Prospectus
      • Important Policies
      • Achievements
      • Term Dates
      • Uniform
      • PE and Sport Premium
      • Public Sector Duty
      • Financial Information
      • Remote Learning
      • Personal Development at Valley Gardens Middle School
      • Young Carers
    • Core Values
      • Kindness
      • Resilience
      • Respect
    • British Values
    • SEN & Disability
    • Pastoral Structure
    • Ofsted Report
    • Pupil Premium
    • Staff
    • Performance Tables
    • School Council
    • Careers
    • Contact us
  • Curriculum
  • Safeguarding
    • Safeguarding
    • Digital Safeguarding
    • Report a safeguarding concern
    • Mental Health Support Pathway
    • Lockdown, evacuation and invacuation
    • Signposting & Resources
  • Extra Curricular
    • Clubs Timetable
    • School Trips
  • Parents
    • Events
    • Charity
    • Sustainable Travel
      • Travel Plan
      • Go Smarter For Parents
      • VGMS Go Smarter Map
    • Letters Home
    • Breakfast and After School Care
    • Year 4 Transition
    • Attendance and Absence
    • Homework
    • Rewards and Sanctions
    • School Day
    • School Meals
    • Term Dates
    • Useful Forms
    • Behaviour
  • Vacancies
  • Reading at VGM
    • Reading at Valley Gardens
    • Key Stage 2
    • Key Stage 3
    • Phonics Strategy
    • VGMS Reading Strategy Overview
  • Important Policies

Year 5

CURRICULUM AREAS
  • Design Technology
  • Drama
  • PSHE
    • Relationship, Sex and Health Education
    • Year 5
    • Year 6
    • Year 7
    • Year 8
  • Project Based Learning
  • Art & Design
  • Science
  • Religious Education
  • Physical Education
  • Music
    • Extra-Curricular Music Activities
    • Instrumental Lessons
    • Music News
    • Concert Programmes
    • Singing
    • Music Development Plans
  • Modern Foreign Languages
  • Computing
  • History
  • Geography
  • English
  • Mathematics
    • Calculation Policy
    • Exemplification of NC Objectives
    • Mathematics Instructional Videos
  • Assessment
  • Metacognition
  • Oracy

Key Stage 2

During Year 5 and 6, PSHE education offers both explicit and implicit learning opportunities and experiences which reflect pupils’ increasing independence and physical and social awareness. Through close liaison with PSHE leads from our Whitley Bay First Schools, our spiral curriculum ensures  that we build on the skills that pupils started to acquire in Year 3 and 4. In Upper Key Stage 2, we also prepare pupils to cope with the changes at puberty, introduces them to a wider world and enables them to make an active contribution to their communities. 

The PSHE curriculum at Valley Gardens is inclusive of the objectives in the new statutory guidance for Relationships Education and Health Education (September 2020).

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/relationships-education-relationships-and-sex-education-rse-and-health-education

 

 

Year 5

Health and Wellbeing: Physical Health and Mental Wellbeing

Healthy sleep habits; sun safety; medicines and vaccines; immunisations and allergies

Relationships: Respecting Ourselves and Others 

Responding respectfully to a wide range of people; recognising prejudice and discrimination

Living in the Wider World: Belonging to a Community

Protecting the environment; compassion towards others

Health and Wellbeing: Keeping Safe

Keeping safe in different situations, including responding in emergencies and first aid

Relationships: Families and Friendships

Managing friendships and peer influence

Living in the Wider World: Media Literacy and Digital Resilience

How information online is targeted; different media types, their role and impact

Relationships: Safe Relationships

Physical contact and feeling safe

Health and Wellbeing: Growing and Changing

Physical and emotional changes in puberty; external genitalia; personal hygiene routines; appropriate and inappropriate contact and boundaries

Living in the Wider World: Money and Work

Identifying job interests and aspirations; what influences career choices; workplace stereotypes

 

CURRICULUM AREAS

  • Design Technology
  • Drama
  • PSHE
    • Relationship, Sex and Health Education
    • Year 5
    • Year 6
    • Year 7
    • Year 8
  • Project Based Learning
  • Art & Design
  • Science
  • Religious Education
  • Physical Education
  • Music
  • Modern Foreign Languages
  • Computing
  • History
  • Geography
  • English
  • Mathematics
  • Assessment
  • Metacognition
  • Oracy

School Address

Valley Gardens Middle School

Valley Gardens

Whitley Bay

NE25 9AQ

Contact Info

0191 9176667

[email protected]

Core Values – Kindness, Resilience, Respect
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