Our approach to the curriculum is to provide the highest quality provision, utilising the skills of all our staff, to inspire all our pupils to achieve their full potential.
Our approach to the curriculum is to provide the highest quality provision, utilising the skills of all our staff, to inspire all our pupils to achieve their full potential.
This is achieved through the choice of resources, including the use of iPads, equipment in mathematics and a wide range of texts in English. Our positive and stimulating learning environments develop curious, confident learners and as a result provides excellent opportunities for all pupils to achieve high standards. There are strong links between the core and non-core subjects because of our close assessment of the skills that each academic discipline requires.
Mathematics is taught using the Mathematics Mastery program in Reception through to Year 5. These schemes are based on approaches from Singapore and the new National Curriculum. This allows all pupils not only to be fluent in the fundamentals but to reason and solve problems by applying mathematical skills with increasing sophistication.
Our curriculum is designed to meet and exceed the expectations set out in the National Curriculum. We teach each subject in its own right and have embedded opportunities for cross curricular learning throughout. Academic achievement and character development are at the heart of our curriculum design and we regularly review our curriculum offer to ensure that it is relevant, engaging and challenging.
English is taught through the use of Read, Write Inc. (RWI) for Reception and KS1 children and Success for All (SFA) for KS2 children. Children are grouped according to their reading ability from Monday until Thursday, this is to ensure all children make accelerated progress in English. The core writing skills are taught across the curriculum and a renewed focus on grammar, spelling, handwriting and punctuation is embedded across the school. Children are read to daily and are able to select home reading books at an appropriate level from their class libraries. This enhances our RWI and SFA programmes and challenges the children to be independent readers.
Please click on the links below for helpful leaflets which explain our approaches to the above schemes.
For more information on our curriculum and the ways we teach, please contact the school office.
