Curriculum Intent

Our school aims to give pupils a broad, balanced, and ambitious curriculum that builds secure knowledge and skills across all subjects. We want children to leave us with strong foundational literacy and numeracy, a curiosity for learning, and a clear understanding of the world around them—socially, culturally, and morally.

We focus on deepening understanding, not just covering content.

There is a thoughtful, considered approach to the curriculum design that not only includes all necessary statutory requirements of the national curriculum but one that has been carefully designed with our pupils and their needs in mind. 

The curriculum has been designed around first order concepts that provide the driving force for the content that is delivered across year groups. The deliberate first order concepts provide a clear and coherent framework that helps children to make sense of the world around them. 

For example in Geography our first order concepts are: sustainability, scale and settlements. The concepts are broad, meaningful and interlinked. For example: settlements exist at different scales, all settlements face issues around sustainability and sustainability challenges differ depending on scales. Children build a structured and repeatable understanding of places and processes across year groups that enables progression and deepening understanding.

If you wish to withdraw your child from Religious Education (RE), please just let the school office know in writing.