Whole School Curriculum

Curriculum Policy

​Curriculum Policy 2024 - 2025

​ Primary curriculum statement 2024

Curriculum:

Our ‘all-through’ curriculum aims to deliver on our vision to ‘Aspire for Excellence; we can, and we will’. We firmly believe that our students can and will succeed – as such, the curriculum offer aims to provide students with the skills, knowledge and experience to do so. To this end, we constantly strive to achieve the following in terms of our curriculum:

• Our curriculum is designed to inspire and engage all students, creating a thirst for learning;
• Our curriculum is designed to be coherent in its structure, ensuring key skills and knowledge are learnt, embedded and consolidated;
• Our curriculum is designed to expose students to challenging and difficult concepts, with the intention of creating independence and autonomy in their application of learning;
• Our curriculum is designed to prioritise reading, literacy and numeracy to allow students to cope with the demands of the 21^st Century;
• Our curriculum is designed to empower and enrich students with an understanding of the world around them, to enable success in their futures both professionally, and personally;
• Our curriculum and its ambition is designed to help students aspire for excellence, understanding that they can and they will succeed in being life-long learners.

Through the implementation of our curriculum, we instil the values and skills of ASPIRE:

Achievement -We believe in all of our students and their ability to exceed their expectations. Central to this is the drive to create students that are committed, resilient and inspired through self-directed learning, actively acquiring and mastering, the knowledge and skills required for future success. Lesson planning is carefully considered and adapted to ensure student achievement is at the forefront in activity design.

This will ensure that all students are not only prepared for adult life but that they will also have a love for learning beyond school.

Support – We believe that highly successful students are also highly reflective. They learn from their mistakes and make changes as a result. Students are frequently questioned and assessment for learning takes place regularly to check student understanding and to facilitate the correct layers of support.

Students will receive frequent feedback and support from their teachers and act upon this feedback accordingly. In addition to this, students will support each other within the classroom to ensure they are highly effective learners.

Perseverance – We know that success comes from hard work, high levels of engagement and determination. We operate a ‘no excuses’ culture which requires all students to ‘think big’ and believe that they can achieve beyond what they even considered possible. This is why we promote independent learning as frequently as possible within lessons.

We expect students to demonstrate the qualities of grit, determination and confidence in everything they do so that when they are faced with a significant challenge, they have the confidence and skills to overcome it.

Integrity – We understand that successful learning works synonymously with a positive classroom climate. The application of our behaviour for learning policy is prioritised within our implementation of the curriculum. We are committed to developing lessons which place learning as the number one priority and reinforces the need to teach, model and coach both good conduct and social/life skills.

We believe that a strong ethos of achievement and good conduct comes from us all working together within a clear framework to ensure our students act with honestly, responsibly and with kindness. When students do so, they are rewarded and praised accordingly.

Respect – We understand that a key part of learning comes from the excellent relationships that are established between the students and the teacher. As such, we promote that our curriculum implementation is underpinned by mutual respect within the classroom. We expect students to respect everybody within the classroom; peers, support staff and their teacher, in order to create an exceptional learning environment that caters for all.

Enrichment - We acknowledge that the best learning can be developed further from outside the classroom, which is why we organise enrichment opportunities that work alongside our curriculum implementation.

We expect our teachers to provide, where possible, additional learning opportunities that provide children with a more rounded, culturally rich education.