Curriculum Overview
Intent
Vision statement: “Learning to Love, Loving to Learn”
At St Mary’s CofE Primary School, our curriculum is designed to bring our vision statement to life, promoting a love of learning across the school.
We have high expectations for all our pupils and our curriculum is ambitious, inclusive and carefully sequenced, enabling the children to build on prior learning and deepen their understanding as they progress through the Key Stages. It is also designed to be engaging and fun!
As a proudly inclusive school, we ensure that learning is accessible by making considered adaptations for children with SEND and others who need extra support. Reflecting our Christian values, Love, Faith, Joy, Hope and Respect, we have a strong focus on equality, diversity, health, wellbeing and British values.
We regularly review the curriculum, listen to staff and pupil feedback, and make improvements to ensure that we continue to meet our children’s evolving needs.
Implementation
- Our curriculum is planned to ensure that the children build increasingly complex knowledge and skills over time, with clear cross-curricular links
- We run a two-year rolling programme in each Key Stage, so that the pupils in mixed- age classes learn the same content as their peers in other classes, with age-appropriate adaptations
- Assessment, using clear progression maps, informs our teaching so that pupils make the best possible progress
- Teachers provide pace and challenge in the classroom, whilst also adapting approaches to support those who need extra help
- High quality texts underpin our learning in the EYFS and all Key Stages
- We place a strong emphasis on vocabulary to develop oracy
- The curriculum is enhanced by an enrichment programme of trips, workshops, theme days, visits and clubs.
Impact
Our pupils make good progress from their starting points and at the end of Key Stage 2, their achievement in reading, writing, maths and spelling and grammar is well above the national average.
They develop into considerate, well-rounded individuals who value and celebrate diversity and equality; we are always proud of the highly positive feedback we receive about them from visitors to school.
Our curriculum maps for EYFS and our two-year rolling curriculum maps for each Key Stage are below.
You can find more detailed information about children’s learning in each subject on the individual subject pages.
A termly learning overview is posted each term on the Class pages. This includes helpful knowledge organisers, which contain the key facts and information that children need to have understanding of a topic.