Curriculum Design: what makes us special?
Knowledge, skills and wisdom
We recognise that 'knowledge' is available readily in this modern era; so whilst we do gather information and learn about key dates, people and places, our main focus is on the skills we develop and the wisdom gleaned from the best that has been thought and said across the globe.
The knowledge, skills and wisdom within reading and writing are recognised in all subjects.
Underpinning this are our golden threads that permeate our curriculum.
The golden threads of our curriculum development are:
- Cultural diversity - learning about and from other cultures, faiths and communities; whilst celebrating and nurturing our farming roots and our history as part of the village community.
- Reading - Putting reading the heart of the school and the curriculum: if children can read by age 6, they will have a more developed working memory and will therefore find following instructions and sequencing tasks much easier as they travel through school.
- Global citizenship. Working with our pupil‘s voices to take note of global issues and stand up for what they believe is right. In particular, addressing the plastic crisis. - using wisdom to inform action.
We also...
Ensure that all learners make good progress across the whole curriculum.
Provide children with opportunities to gain cultural capital - learning from the best that has been thought and said - across the globe; giving our pupils hope and aspiration.
1 Corinthians 16: 13-14. Love is our core value - we use nurture and natural consequences. We believe in helping as many children as we can to be in the right emotional place to access a curriculum that will set them up for the next stage.
Values
Our rules are simple: Think, Care, Seek, Build, Respect. These are reflected in our values - thoughtfulness, kindness, perseverance with courage, co-operation, respectfulness and love; and also in the identified British Values of tolerance, mutual respect, liberty, democracy and Rule of Law (see above).
As a Church School, we teach the children to respect others through a deepening of their understanding of other's opinions.
We operate a democratic system for electing Student Council each year across Key Stage One and Two.
Curriculum Policies
Curriculum Policies
Have a look at our policies on the teaching of the 2014 National Curriculum.