The foundation curriculum subjects ensure a broad and balanced curriculum for children at Moorgate. To see what aspects of each subject are taught, and when please see the phase curriculum overviews on the EYFS, KS1 and KS2 pages.
Computing

The National Curriculum for Computing aims to ensure that all pupils:
- can understand and apply the fundamental principles and concepts of computer science, including abstraction, logic, algorithms and data representation
- can analyse problems in computational terms, and have repeated practical experience of writing computer programs in order to solve such problems
- can evaluate and apply information technology, including new or unfamiliar technologies, analytically to solve problems
- are responsible, competent, confident and creative users of information and communication technology.
At Moorgate, Computing is delivered as a stand alone subject weekly and the content of which is primarily taken from the Purple Mash Curriculum. To find out more, please click on the picture link.
Computing Progression for Vocabulary
Design Technology (DT)

The National Curriculum for Design & Technology aims to ensure that all pupils:
- develop the creative, technical and practical expertise needed to perform everyday tasks confidently and to participate successfully in an increasingly technological world
- build and apply a repertoire of knowledge, understanding and skills in order to design and make high-quality prototypes and products for a wide range of users
- critique, evaluate and test their ideas and products and the work of others
- understand and apply the principles of nutrition and learn how to cook.
At Moorgate, DT is delivered as a stand alone subject every other half term (on a rotation with Art) and the content of the curriculum is primarily taken from Plan Bee units. To find out more, please click on the picture link.
DT Progression for Vocabulary
History

The National Curriculum for History aims to ensure that all pupils:
- know and understand the history of these islands as a coherent, chronological narrative, from the earliest times to the present day: how people’s lives have shaped this nation and how Britain has influenced and been influenced by the wider world
- know and understand significant aspects of the history of the wider world: the nature of ancient civilisations; the expansion and dissolution of empires; characteristic features of past non-European societies; achievements and follies of mankind
- gain and deploy a historically grounded understanding of abstract terms such as ‘empire’, ‘civilisation’, ‘parliament’ and ‘peasantry’
- understand historical concepts such as continuity and change, cause and consequence, similarity, difference and significance, and use them to make connections, draw contrasts, analyse trends, frame historically-valid questions and create their own structured accounts, including written narratives and analyses
- understand the methods of historical enquiry, including how evidence is used rigorously to make historical claims, and discern how and why contrasting arguments and interpretations of the past have been constructed
At Moorgate, History is delivered as a stand alone subject and is delivered every other half term (on a rotation with Geography). The content of the curriculum is primarily taken from Plan Bee. To find out more, please click on the picture link.
History Progression for Vocabulary
Geography

The National Curriculum for Geography aims to ensure that all pupils:
- develop contextual knowledge of the location of globally significant places – both terrestrial and marine – including their defining physical and human characteristics and how these provide a geographical context for understanding the actions of processes
- understand the processes that give rise to key physical and human geographical features of the world, how these are interdependent and how they bring about spatial variation and change over time
- are competent in the geographical skills needed to:
- collect, analyse and communicate with a range of data gathered through experiences of fieldwork that deepen their understanding of geographical processes
- interpret a range of sources of geographical information, including maps, diagrams, globes, aerial photographs and Geographical Information Systems (GIS)
- communicate geographical information in a variety of ways, including through maps, numerical and quantitative skills and writing at length.
At Moorgate, Geography is delivered as a stand alone subject and is delivered every other half term (on a rotation with History). The content of the curriculum is primarily taken from Plan Bee. To find out more, please click on the picture link.
Geography Progression for Vocabulary
Personal, Social and Health Education (PSHE)

The aim for PSHE education is to provide pupils with:
- accurate, balanced and relevant knowledge
- opportunities to turn that knowledge into personal understanding
- opportunities to explore, clarify and if necessary challenge, their own and others’ values, attitudes, beliefs, rights and responsibilities
- the skills, language and strategies they need in order to live healthy, safe, fulfilling, responsible and balanced lives
- opportunities to develop positive personal attributes such as resilience, self-confidence, self-esteem, and empathy
At Moorgate, PSHE is delivered weekly and uses the foundations of the PSHE Association. To find out more, please click on the picture link.
PSHE Progression for Vocabulary
Music

The National Curriculum for Music aims to ensure that all pupils:
- perform, listen to, review and evaluate music across a range of historical periods, genres, styles and traditions, including the works of the great composers and musicians
- learn to sing and to use their voices, to create and compose music on their own and with others, have the opportunity to learn a musical instrument, use technology appropriately and have the opportunity to progress to the next level of musical excellence
- understand and explore how music is created, produced and communicated, including through the inter-related dimensions: pitch, duration, dynamics, tempo, timbre, texture, structure and appropriate musical notations.
At Moorgate, Music is delivered as a stand alone subject every other half term (on a rotation with MFL) and the content of the curriculum is primarily taken from Charanga. To find out more, please click on the picture link.
Music Progression for Vocabulary
Art

The National Curriculum for Art & Design aims to ensure that all pupils:
- produce creative work, exploring their ideas and recording their experiences
- become proficient in drawing, painting, sculpture and other art, craft and design techniques
- evaluate and analyse creative works using the language of art, craft and design
- know about great artists, craft makers and designers, and understand the historical and cultural development of their art forms.
At Moorgate, Art is delivered as a stand alone subject every other half term (on a rotation with DT) and the content of the curriculum is primarily taken from Plan Bee units. To find out more, please click on the picture link.
Art Progression for Vocabulary
Physical Education (PE)

The National Curriculum for Physical Education aims to ensure that all pupils:
- develop competence to excel in a broad range of physical activities
- are physically active for sustained periods of time
- engage in competitive sports and activities
- lead healthy, active lives.
At Moorgate, PE is delivered as a stand alone subject and is primarily taken from the Primary PE Planning scheme. To find out more, please click on the picture link.
PE Vocabulary Progression Document
Religious Education (RE)

RE is a statutory subject of the school curriculum of maintained schools and therefore religious education shall be provided for all registered pupils. Parents have the right to withdraw their child from religious education lessons.
Religious education actively promotes the values of truth, justice, respect for all and care of the environment. It places specific emphasis on:
- pupils valuing themselves and others,
- the role of family and the community in religious belief and activity,
- the celebration of diversity in society through understanding similarities and differences,
- sustainable development of the earth and care for creation
At Moorgate, RE is delivered every week as per the foundations set out in the Staffordshire Agreed Syllabus (SACRE). To find out more, please click on the picture link.
RE Progression for Vocabulary
Languages

At Moorgate Primary Academy, pupils learn French. The National Curriculum for Languages aims to ensure that all pupils:
- understand and respond to spoken and written language from a variety of authentic sources
- speak with increasing confidence, fluency and spontaneity, finding ways of communicating what they want to say, including through discussion and asking questions, and continually improving the accuracy of their pronunciation and intonation
- can write at varying length, for different purposes and audiences, using the variety of grammatical structures that they have learnt
- discover and develop an appreciation of a range of writing in the language studied.
At Moorgate, MFL is delivered as a stand alone subject every other half term (on a rotation with Music) and the content of the curriculum is primarily taken from Twinkl. To find out more, please click on the picture link.
French Progression for Vocabulary