Curriculum Subjects

As a maintained school, we follow the statutory national curriculum, which is balanced and broadly based, and which:

• promotes the spiritual, moral, cultural, mental and physical development of pupils at the school and of society
• prepares pupils at the school for the opportunities, responsibilities and experiences of later life.

Throughout the school, much of the curriculum that the children follow and study is through a thematic and cross-curricular approach. Some subjects are taught discreetly, but where possible we try to connect and link learning. We believe in providing and maintaining a broad, balanced and varied curriculum, that gives equal value to all learning and all subject areas.  Integral to our approach to the curriculum is equality. Through careful consideration and planning of starting points, content, learning sequence and resources (including equipment, time, staffing and space), all pupils are able to access the curriculum. Running parallel with this is personal development, which is key: building resilience, embedding British values, promoting independence and learning from and out about each other. All of which are facilitated and enhanced by our deliberate and varied themes and questions, covered as part of our regular PSHE lessons.

 

A high priority is given to speaking and listening as part of language development, encouraging confident readers and writers.