Curriculum Statement
We are proud to provide an aspirational, well-balanced and broad curriculum that is:
Balanced
- Fosters the arts through dedicated music provision with a specialist teacher.
- Promotes British Values and Health and Relationships.
- Includes a modern foreign language.
- Prepares children for the opportunities, responsibilities and experiences of later life.
- Provides opportunities to develop computing skills using new technologies, coding and media.
- Visits and visitors enhance the curriculum and broaden children's wider social understanding and contexts.
Creative
- Through diverse and exciting projects such as Maafa, Misty Mountains and Winding Rivers and Magnificent Monarchs.
- Regular 'Look and Share' sessions allow parents to see a wealth of creativity and progressive outcomes across all subjects.
Supportive
- Is adapted to suit the needs of all our learners.
- Utilises features of our local community and the wider community.
- Helps children develop their sense of identity and belonging so they become ready to make a positive contribution to society.
- Promotes the spiritual, moral, cultural, mental and physical development of children.
- Access to specific programmes designed to develop emotional literacy and social skills.
Retrieval
- Regular opportunities for recall and practice built into sequences of lessons.
- Revisit concepts and themes to build progression and develop recall of learning.
- Teacher questioning to elicit current knowledge and establish next steps.
- Misconceptions addressed on a daily formative and summative basis.
Logically Sequenced
- A clear logical sequence of lessons (schema).
- Sequences built on current and prior substantive knowledge and disciplinary knowledge.
- Modelling and scaffolding learning, moving towards independence.
- Assessments for learning.