Curriculum

Learning in Our School

Our federation is a happy, vibrant place where our core values have become our mantra: Keep Me Safe, Make Me Happy and Help Me Learn. 

We believe in encouraging our pupils to embrace life-long learning and become active participants in society who care, support and contribute. We provide a broad, balanced, challenging and relevant education which involves children in active, personalised learning through a knowledge-based, creative curriculum.

Children are provided with a supportive and nurturing start to school in Early Years. Children begin to develop their knowledge, thinking and skills through child-initiated activities and focused sessions that develop children’s knowledge of phonics, reading, writing and number. Developing phonics, reading, writing and number continues into Key Stage 1.

In Key Stage 2, children build upon previous learning, applying their knowledge to solve problems through all subjects including the foundation subjects. Reading is at the heart of our approach and supports our vocabulary-rich curriculum. Children learn to read quickly so that they can read for meaning. They are read to frequently and read independently so they can acquire new knowledge; new vocabulary and can place their learning into context across a wide range of subjects.

Curriculum Design in Our Schools

We have worked hard to develop a highly structured, knowledge-rich spiral curriculum that is built around a core knowledge sequence, enabling children to acquire knowledge in small, sequential steps within each subject.

Clear, coherent and sequential learning is carefully planned for so that children know more and remember more, building their long term memory over time.

Planning differentiated lessons to meet the needs of our mixed age classes is a key principle. We provide opportunities for deep learning within each subject by utilising a two year rolling cycle. More time is taken on each element of knowledge so that it can be understood more deeply and connections can be made across different subjects. Once children have achieved age-related expectations, they can look into these areas in greater depth and with greater challenge.