Elementary Curriculum
- English
English is a central feature of everyday lessons and involves building on phonics and reading skills as well as developing comprehension and understanding of texts to support all areas of the curriculum.
Children in Grade 1, 2 and 3 gain skills to write in a variety of different genres such as story writing, poetry, letters, information texts and diary extracts; and spelling, punctuation and grammar are consolidated across all areas of work.
- Mathematics
Mathematics is a key feature across the curriculum at Lugard. Students work with manipulative and real-life situations to develop mathematical reasoning, conceptual understanding and fluency in counting, number, place value and operations.
Children begin to apply mathematical reasoning to solve problems and make estimates, and they develop their understanding of shape, space and measure.
- Literacy 1&2
Literacy 1&2 involves developing scientific knowledge and scientific thinking by providing opportunities for children to explore and investigate the world around them through observation, data collection, analysis, questioning, interpreting evidence, classification and developing vocabulary to explain and give reasons for their findings. Topics in Grade 1,2 and 3 include: Materials, Animals, The Human Body, Habitats, Electricity, Changes and Plants, developing locational knowledge, place knowledge, human and physical geography and beginning to use geographical skills like mapping.
- Researching different time periods and ways of living. Children, explore both their local environment and the wider world around them. Topics draw upon different cultures, allowing the children to understand that people have different beliefs, customs and traditions, encouraging understanding and tolerance of other people and their environment.
