Curriculum Design
Our ‘school curriculum’ is the child’s whole experience at All Saints’ First School. Our curriculum ensures that every child is given the opportunity to flourish and develop confidence and independence, to enable them to be the best they can be and achieve their god given potential.
At All Saints’, we value the uniqueness of each individual child, recognising and nurturing their potential for learning. Our aim, through our tailor-made curriculum, is to ensure every child is inspired to be the best they can be, to instil Christian values that will be carried with them through life’s journey and to inspire them to make a positive contribution to the community.
We believe that our curriculum provides the right balance between understanding and using knowledge as well as developing and applying skills, leading to better understanding and progression for the pupils.
Intent
Our curriculum has been designed with the following intent:
♦ Safeguarding and promoting the well-being of both children and adults so that all know that they will be cared for.
♦ Celebrating diversity, recognise individual needs and provide fair opportunities for all.
♦ Ensuring that everyone is given the opportunity to flourish and develop confidence and independence, to enable them to be the best they can be and achieve their god given potential.
♦ Encouraging everyone to take responsibility for their own actions and develop the ability to persevere.
♦ Providing a Christian, caring community for all, where there are respectful relationships based on friendship, compassion, kindness, honesty and forgiveness, so that everyone lives well together.
♦ Ensuring RE and Worship is central to the life of the school, to encourage the spiritual development of all children and adults.
♦ Delivering a well-taught, creative, relevant, broad and balanced curriculum, which inspires the children to see God’s world as a place of wonder, and develops a love of learning.
♦ Working collaboratively with parents, learners, members of the community, the church, educational partners and other professionals to ensure all children receive the very best start to their learning journey.
Our School Curriculum
Our curriculum is comprised of three equally important elements:
All three elements are important to meet out curriculum intent. Our curriculum therefore places equal importance on each element. Our school values of:
Respect Kindness Confidence Independence Responsibility Creativity Love of Learning Perseverance
are entwined through the whole curriculum, and not just the personal and spiritual element.
National Curriculum
We strive for children to learn skills alongside knowledge, ensuring that both are developed and intertwined. We do this by having an emphasis on cross-curricular teaching, where purposeful and relevant, with a strong focus on sequential and progressive skills. We believe that this is important for making the curriculum relevant and meaningful to pupils and for putting knowledge into context.
We believe that it is our responsibility to develop the Literacy and Numeracy skills for all of our pupils. Using the Early Years Foundation Stage Strategy and National Curriculum as a basis, age-appropriate progression and knowledge for each core and foundation subject has been identified. This has been mapped out to ensure coverage of identified knowledge is secured across KS1 and KS2. We carefully select the sequence of when, what and how knowledge is taught and subject leaders work actively to review this regularly.
Enrichment Curriculum
We embed Enrichment opportunities to help us to meet many aspects of our curriculum intent, including:
♦ Ensuring that everyone is given the opportunity to flourish and develop confidence and independence, to enable them to be the best they can be and achieve their god given potential.
♦ Providing a Christian, caring community for all, where there are respectful relationships based on friendship, compassion, kindness, honesty and forgiveness, so that everyone lives well together.
♦ Delivering a well-taught, creative, relevant, broad and balanced curriculum, which inspires the children to see God’s world as a place of wonder, and develops a love of learning.
♦ Working collaboratively with parents, learners, members of the community, the church, educational partners and other professionals to ensure all children receive the very best start to their learning journey.
Personal and Spiritual
Our Personal and Spiritual curriculum opportunities help the children to develop respectful relationships based on friendship, compassion, kindness, honesty and forgiveness, so that everyone lives well together. It encourages the celebration of diversity, recognises individual needs and provides fair opportunities for all. RE and Worship is therefore central to the life of the school, and we encourage the spiritual development of all children.
Together the three parts of our curriculum, within the context of our school vision and values, aim to inspire all children to be the best they can be in order to flourish as children of God. It nurtures all those who learn and work in our school, and instils Christian values that will be carried with the children through life’s journey and will inspire them to make a positive contribution to the community.
Curriculum Design
As part of the curriculum design, we have addressed the following:
♦ Developing sequential learning, where pupils know more and can do more, building on what they have been previously taught
♦ Local context and enriching the lives of pupils
♦ Strong focus on subject-specific skills
♦ Considering depth, breadth and curriculum content
♦ Seeing the curriculum as a progressive model, by reviewing and evaluating curriculum design regularly, and taking opportunities to incorporate current events or local issues
♦ Having a clear purpose for assessment
♦ Listening to pupil’s voice so that this feeds into the curriculum
♦ Clear curriculum leadership and ownership for all
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