Curriculum Information

Our curriculum is applied by:

• ‘Levelling the playing field’. Providing a rich experience to capture children’s interest and narrow the gap for disadvantaged children. Trips and visitors are planned within a whole school overview and are balanced across the school and between subjects.
• Establishing a coherent, whole-school long term plan. This includes Curriculum Overviews for each year group which specify when curriculum areas are covered.
• Unit Journey Planning which details the national curriculum objectives taught, essential knowledge and skills to be learned (progressive throughout the school), key vocabulary and the intended outcomes of each unit.
• Giving topics a clear subject driver, high-quality text and allow blocked time to cover content in depth. A clear and progressive learning journey and responsive teaching ensure that children master the essential knowledge and skills in each subject area and achieve a high-quality outcome.
• Evaluating and reviewing curriculum overviews to feed into curriculum planning for the following year.
• Developing the confidence and capability of subject leaders through continued professional development. To ensure the curriculum is implemented effectively subject leaders will develop their understanding of how skills in their subject develop and their monitoring and evaluation skills to enable ‘meaningful discussions about how they know that the curriculum is having an impact.’