Curriculum Rationale

‘The curriculum has been carefully designed to meet the needs of pupils and strengthen learning. Improving knowledge promotes academic growth and developing skills elevates pupils to a position of being able to make change.’

SIAMS report March 2024

Our curriculum is designed to give all of our children the very best opportunities to make our vision a reality. We have built it around the acronym R-A-I-S-E.

R - Retention of powerful knowledge and vocabulary

A - Application of powerful knowledge and vocabulary

I - Inspiration

S - Success for everyone

E - Elevating our children to a position where they can make a positive difference to the world.

We have carefully designed our own curriculum to ensure our children experience purposeful, exciting and inspirational learning opportunities. This will broaden their horizons and enrich their knowledge as required in the National Curriculum and beyond. We want our children to experience all of the joy and powerful knowledge a well thought- out and imaginative curriculum can provide. We are extremely passionate about achieving this. We have been brave and bold in the opportunities we have planned for our pupils as we want our curriculum to be exciting, challenging and adventurous!

When designing our curriculum, we held many things at the forefront of our minds including:

Our vision and Christian values which we hold dear;
The crucial knowledge we want our pupils to know, understand and apply;
Providing our pupils with exciting, inspirational and adventurous experiences;
Promoting the moral, social and spiritual development of our children;
Planning for the careful progression of knowledge year upon year to master and deepen;
Providing a relevant and meaningful curriculum for our children, which they can relate to, and feel pride towards;
Creating a curriculum that breaks boundaries and takes our children to unknown destinations and experiences!
Providing every child with a curriculum which is fun and enjoyable;
And above all else, creating a curriculum which provides them with the determination, passion and dedication to succeed in their future lives.

Click HERE to see our curriculum policy

Reading

Reading is a crucial part of a child’s development and intrinsic in our curriculum. We ensure the children have a rich and varied diet of literature through a range of teaching and resources. Click on the links below to get an insight into some of those resources and ways we assess.

How we teach reading How we assess reading

Click here to view our reading policy

Click here to view our book spine.

Phonics

We use Read Write Inc to teach our children to read. The children are taught in smaller groups and are assessed regularly. Below is a short clip explaining what the scheme is. There is also a link to the parents part of the Read Write Inc website which gives great demonstrations of how we teach it and how you can support them at home.

Read Write Inc Parents

Writing

Our aim is to ensure every child leaves our school as a competent, confident writer, knowing that the things they write can have the power to change their own lives and the lives of others!

Click HERE to view our writing policy

Click here to view our planning overview for English.

Click here to view our adventurous vocabulary policy.

Hand writing is a key part of improving standards. Please click HERE to see how we teach it and how you can help at home.

Here is our ENGLISH ACTION PLAN so you can find out the key areas for development.

Maths

Our aim is to ensure every child leaves our school competent and confident in their ability to calculate, reason and apply mathematics. We follow the ‘White Rose’ approach to this subject.

Click here to view our maths policy.

Click here for our MATHS ACTION PLAN which outlines the key areas of development in this subject.

All of the children have a log in for Sumdog. This is an online platform which is great for practising the essential maths teaching the children need.