Our Curriculum has been dynamically planned; every element is carefully considered enabling a shared vision of high quality teaching and learning to permeate through the school. It is designed to ensure that the children’s learning is progressive from EYFS to Year 2, which provides them with a strong and progressive foundation to prepare them for future learning. Our philosophy is to ensure:
- Planning is underpinned by carefully considered and progressively planned skills and knowledge.
- Planning is broken down into Medium Term and Short-Term planning which ensures the children are drawing upon their prior learning to help them move forward.
- Progress is measured by the level of independence, resilience and confidence in the application of skills, knowledge and vocabulary, this is called ‘learning autonomy’.
- Learning autonomy is defined by our team as ‘being able to use and apply skills and knowledge independently in a range of situations’. The autonomy enables us to strongly identify when learning has been committed to long term memory.
Our teachers plan and assess using our curriculum to ensure that children:
- Are provided time to make links through cross curricular teaching and purposeful discrete lessons
- Learning builds on what they have learnt before and provides them the confidence to tackle ‘new learning’
Our leaders ensure:
- Subject knowledge is monitored effectively to ensure all teachers are developing their expertise
- Pedagogical content knowledge is strong across the school to ensure that teachers know how to effectively deliver all subject areas they teach
- CPD is strong and linked to our school needs and journey
