Our Curriculum
Our curriculum is underpinned by the National Curriculum and Cornerstones Curriculum, which provide a rich and engaging framework designed to foster a lifelong love of learning. Our curriculum is tailored to meet the unique needs of each child in our local community. Recognising the backgrounds, strengths, and challenges specific to children from our area, we aim to inspire and motivate children through our learning values of Recalling Learning, Making Links, Staying Focused, Asking Questions, Persevering and Using Vocabulary
Through our Curriculum, we aim to:
- Inspire curiosity by connecting learning to real-world experiences and local contexts that are meaningful to the children in our area.
- Cultivate critical thinking, creativity, and problem-solving skills through thematic and cross-curricular projects that adapt to different learning styles and reflect the diverse backgrounds of our community.
- Foster values such as empathy, respect, and perseverance, creating a safe and supportive space where every child feels valued.
- Build an inclusive classroom culture that celebrates diversity, embracing each child’s unique strengths, cultural backgrounds, and perspectives.
- By adapting the curriculum to reflect the realities and resources of our local community, we seek to engage children academically, socially, emotionally, and creatively.
Our goal is to equip all students with the knowledge, skills, and confidence to thrive as responsible, compassionate members of their communities, prepared to face the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead. The most important element of our school curriculum is that pupils are challenged, supported, prepared and happy learners.
Cultural Capital
Every child and family who joins our school will have their own knowledge and experiences that will link to their culture and wider family. This might include: languages, beliefs, traditions, cultural and family heritage, interests, travel and work.
Cultural capital is the accumulation of knowledge, behaviours, and skills that a child can draw upon and which demonstrates their cultural awareness, knowledge and competence; it is one of the key ingredients a pupil will draw upon to be successful in society, their career and the world of work.
Cultural capital gives power. It helps children achieve goals, become successful, and rise up the social ladder without necessarily having wealth or financial capital. Cultural capital is having assets that give children the desire to aspire and achieve social mobility whatever their starting point.
Gradually widening children’s experiences as they progress through school is an important step in providing rich and engaging learning across the curriculum. We plan carefully for children to have progressively richer experiences from their first day at school to the end of this stage of their education.