How does our curriculum work?

The objectives set in the National Curriculum ensure that children are working to the national standard and being continually supported and challenged. However, the National Curriculum is just one element in the education of every child. It provides a brief outline of objectives around which teachers and subject leaders base the core knowledge and create exciting and stimulating lessons, with the understanding they have the freedom to extend beyond the National Curriculum specifications in order to meet the needs of every child in our care.

Our curriculum is implemented through meaningfully linked topics, however we understand the importance of subject specific knowledge and skills, and where meaningful links cannot be made, subjects are taught discretely in order to maximise children’s learning.

Our curriculum is brought to life through; a range of teaching and learning styles, educational visits, visitors to school, role play activities, enhancement days and many more creative and imaginative activities which help deepen and strengthen learning throughout a topic, while building on skills and knowledge from previous years. We actively seek to overcome the barriers to learning that can hinder or exclude individual pupils or groups of pupils. We make this a reality through the attention we pay to adapting and tailoring the curriculums we deliver to individuals and groups of children within our schools

Our broad and balanced curriculum is complemented by a fun and vibrant range of extra-curricular clubs, which take place at lunchtime and after school. We always seek to discover and nurture special talents within each child. We believe there is something for everyone in our extra-curricular programme.