What does your child learn at school each day? Please find key information below, or speak to your child’s teacher for further information on how to support learning.
Our curriculum provides children with a rich, broad and balanced learning experience. It is based on The National Curriculum. Much of our curriculum is organised in topics. Each topic also has a specific trip or experience, such as a visitor coming into school to share their knowledge. The knowledge, skills and experiences that children acquire in the topics they study when younger are built on in later years using the progression documents and planning that you can see below. Our topic overview can be seen by clicking here. This topic overview is just that, an overview of our two year rolling topic programme. We write detailed topic plans each term and these can be seen below. Some of these plans refer to resources which we have bought and thus can’t be placed on our website.
The most important impact our curriculum can have is two fold:
We are able to measure aspects of this. For example, we use statutory assessments and the progress children make to measure the impact of our English and mathematics curriculum. We also measure the progress children make in other subjects, using our own tracking system.
For other aspects of our curriculum it is almost impossible to ‘measure with number’. The feedback from children, from parents and our own observations, show that children value the experiences we give them and that they help the children to learn and to grow in confidence, maturity and independence. For instance, our thorough RHSE curriculum enables our children to be ready for their next stage of life through understanding what it means to be a good citizen.
We keep the implementation and impact of our curriculum under constant review. We do this through our ongoing monitoring and evaluation work. The outcomes of this are used by us to adjust our curriculum.
Since September 2014, schools within England have had a duty to promote British Values which we incorporate as an important aspect of our curriculum. The Department For Education (DFE), define them as:
We gather every day for a time of collective worship. Most of our worship times together are of a broadly Christian nature and reflect our Christian foundation and Anglican basis. We plan our worship times carefully. Our vicar leads our Monday worship regularly, and our staff or worship leaders lead the other ones. In worship on a Friday we celebrate our achievements and thank God for his help in enabling us to do all that we can. The achievements celebrate all the different ways that our children grow and develop; including Religious Education – each week our School Council choose a Golden Award for a child to receive. As part of our worship we pray our thanks and our requests to God. We also pray for other schools in our trust.
Our times of worship supports the spiritual development of our children and the spirituality of our children. They are part of the worship that occurs within our parish.
Our Religious Education (RE) curriculum
The teaching of RE is important to us and to our children. We use the high quality resources such as Discovery RE. The majority of our RE curriculum is focused on Christianity. The other part of our curriculum enables our children to learn about a number of other world faiths. The whole of our RE curriculum supports our children to live successfully and in harmony in Britain as it is now and as it changes.
It is crucial that children improve their skills year-on-year. To support this, we use curriculum progression documents to ensure that each year, the children will know more, remember more, and do more as a result. You can view the documents our teachers use, below.
