Curriculum
How Our Curriculum Is Structured
Our core curriculum is carefully planned to ensure that children develop strong foundations for learning. The wider curriculum is deliberately designed to help children make sense of themselves and the world around them. In every phase, learning moves simply from the local area to the region, then to the country and, finally, to the wider world. This clear structure begins with children’s lived experiences before gradually broadening their horizons.
Although this journey is consistent, the curriculum is also built around four recurring concepts. These are revisited and expanded as children grow:
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Locality and Immediate Experience: self, family, home, school and the local area
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Beyond Locality and Experience: the community, region and country
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New Experiences and the Wider World: other countries, peoples and cultures
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Increasingly Sophisticated Understanding Within Subjects: deeper knowledge and understanding as children move through the phases
Throughout all phases, the curriculum intentionally develops cultural capital by ensuring pupils encounter people, places, ideas, cultures and experiences beyond their immediate circumstances. Vocabulary is carefully sequenced and revisited across subjects, enabling children to acquire the language needed to think critically, communicate effectively and access future learning.
Knowledge is deliberately revisited and strengthened over time so that children remember more, understand more and make increasingly sophisticated connections between disciplines. This design aims to increase children’s developmental and conceptual understanding, whilst addressing the limited experiences and opportunities they enter school with.
Ultimately, the curriculum ensures that children leave primary school with a secure understanding of themselves, their locality, their region, their country and their place within a diverse and interconnected world. By beginning with children’s lived experiences and systematically broadening horizons through carefully sequenced knowledge, skills and experiences, the curriculum enables every child to be genuinely known, valued and championed.
You can find out more about our curriculum by contacting the school office.
RE is compulsory in schools up to the age of 18. Parents can ask to withdraw their child from parts or all of the lessons. This can be done through a letter to the headteacher.
