knowledge Valley International School

Key Stage -2  Curriculum

Cambridge Primary starts learners on an exciting educational journey. Typically for 5- to 11-

year-olds, it provides a strong foundation for students at the beginning of their schooling

before progressing through the Cambridge Pathway in an age-appropriate way.

By offering Cambridge Primary, you can provide a broad and balanced education for your

learners, helping them to thrive throughout their schooling, work, and life. With ten subjects

to choose from, including English, mathematics, and science, you’ll find plenty of

opportunities to develop creativity, expression, and wellbeing in a variety of ways.

The curriculum is flexible, so you can shape it around how you want your students to learn.

Subjects can be offered in any combination and adapted to suit your context, culture, and

school ethos. Many of our schools offer Cambridge Primary alongside their national

curriculum, or as part of a bilingual program.

 

English Language

It helps them to develop the skills needed to respond to a range of information, media, and

texts. The program promotes active learning, develops thinking skills, and encourages

intellectual engagement.

This curriculum develops learners’ curiosity about other languages and cultures, and how

these shape our perceptions of the world. They will see themselves as successful language

learners, be able to communicate effectively and become confident in and enjoy reading a

range of texts as their skills develop.

This framework supports an integrated approach to planning and teaching to develop

effective communication skills in English. The five strands, and their respective learning

objectives, work together to support the development of knowledge, skills and

understanding in:

  • Reading
  • Writing
  • Use of English
  • Listening
  • Speaking.

 

Math

helps us to think analytically and have better reasoning abilities. Our primary mathematics

curriculum encourages life-long enthusiasm for analytical and rational thinking.

 

Learners develop a holistic understanding of the subject, focusing on principles, patterns,

systems, functions, and relationships. They will become mathematically competent and

fluent in computation, which they can apply to everyday situations.

‘Thinking and working mathematically’, a unique feature of our curriculum, encourages

learners to talk with others, challenge ideas and to provide evidence that validates

conjectures and solutions. When learners are thinking and working mathematically, they

actively seek to make sense of ideas and build connections between different facts,

procedures, and concepts. This supports higher order thinking that helps them to view the

world in a mathematical way.

We have divided this subject into three main areas called ‘strands’, which run through every

primary mathematics stage. Learners will develop skills in:

  • Number
  • Geometry and Measure
  • Statistics and Probability.

The strands work together to help students recognize connections of mathematical concepts

as they engage in creative mathematical thinking to generate and improve numerical fluency.

Science

Science curriculum helps learners develop a life-long curiosity about the natural world and

enables them to seek scientific explanations to the phenomena around them.

Students will think scientifically and develop practical skills alongside knowledge and

understanding, which is vital for explaining the world around us. Improving learners’

awareness of science in the world around them develops their sense that ‘science is for me’,

helping to connect themselves to the subject.

This approach provides them with the knowledge and skills they require to excel at science in

later stages of education and to make informed choices, including considering sustainability

issues and meeting the challenges facing our environment.

This curriculum covers six main areas called ‘strands’ that work together so that you can

teach science holistically:

  • Biology – living things and how they interact.
  • Chemistry – the study of matter.
  • Physics – the interaction of matter and energy.
  • Earth and Space – planet Earth, the wider Solar System and beyond.
  • Thinking and Working Scientifically – develops understanding and skills of scientific models and representations, scientific enquiry, and practical work.
  • Science in Context – helps teachers demonstrate the relevance of science to learners and unique to our science curriculum.