Curriculum Overview

Intent 

Our curriculum has been carefully crafted to ensure breadth, balance and depth for every learner as they move through school.  We provide the National Curriculum as a minimum with our curriculum being tailored to ensure that every child is engaged, inspired and challenged to become a confident learner.  We utilise the strengths and interests of our school community and locality to ensure the enhancement of our provision. This makes our curriculum unique to our school. Our curriculum is designed, organised and planned to ensure each child receives an appropriate mix of academic and personal development to prepare for their next stage in their education and become life-long learners.  Social, moral, spiritual and cultural development is an over-arching umbrella that encompasses personal development across our curriculum and provision in school.  It is the heart of what education is all about – helping pupils grow and develop as people.  We believe that happy, confident children learn best.

Children will become independent and collaborative learners. They will be provided with a broad and balanced curriculum that will enable each child to develop their knowledge and understanding.

The ability to learn is underpinned by the teaching of basic skills, knowledge, concepts and values.

Implementation 

Skills and knowledge are taught discreetly in subject areas so that our children gain a broad understanding of each subject. However, learning links are made wherever possible to help children to make connections and to deepen their understanding. 

Quality texts are integral to our curriculum approach. We recognise that reading is an essential tool and all children must leave our school as skilled and confident readers.  

Teaching staff use our curriculum progression maps to ensure that learning is sequenced so that children know more and remember more. Learning sequences build on and make connections with prior knowledge so that children build knowledge over time. 

Quality first teaching is essential to all of the above and to our curriculum design.  

Impact 

As a result of our carefully crafted curriculum we expect that our children will: 

• Achieve academically across our whole curriculum, meeting at least the national expectation by the end of their primary education. 

• Be confident and curious learners, with a thirst for knowledge and high aspirations for the future. 

The impact of our curriculum is monitored through pupil voice, data outcomes, monitoring of books and planning and learning.