Curriculum

What does your child learn at school each day?

Find information about our curriculum subjects here.

Our curriculum immerses children in termly learning projects (TLP’s), which are designed to broaden their skills, knowledge and understanding, through a range of stimulating, challenging and memorable opportunities, encompassing each child’s individual skills and interests.

  We believe that learning should matter.

We believe that skills should be developed alongside knowledge.

We believe that learning should be inspirational

At the heart of our curriculum lie five key principles:

  Aspire:    To aim to achieve or be successful.

  Broaden:    To understand and learn more.

  Create:    To make something new or imaginative.

  Discover:    To find information, a place, or an object for the first time.

  Explore:    To find out more about something through enquiry.

There are twelve Core Skills that underpin all that we do. They are grouped into Active Learning, Basic Skills and Creative Thinking.
 

Active Learning

Basic Skills

Creative Thinking

We believe that all of our children should be entitled to a breadth and balance of experience, knowledge, skills and understanding in all areas of the national curriculum and beyond, which is carefully structured to ensure it:

• provides opportunities for skills to be developed independently, collaboratively and socially
• fosters perseverance, enthusiasm, independence, curiosity and the sharing of personal experience
• develops resilience, independence, responsibility and emotional intelligence
• develops the child’s unique identity in a supportive, personalised environment
• celebrates and promotes individual talents, interests and achievements
• promotes understanding of diversity and global awareness
• enriches each child’s experience at school through visits, visitors and outdoor learning opportunities
• equips them with life-skills which they can adapt to the world of work, community and global citizenship
• instils a strong understanding of British values
• embed Christian values to help make positive contributions to society

Reading Eggs and Fast Phonics

Every child in the Infant school has access to Reading Eggs and Fast Phonics to support reading development at home. Log ins for these can be found in the front of children's reading diaries. See the introduction videos below. We encourage all children to use Fast Phonics in the first instance, as this is closely aligned to our phonics scheme in school. 

Phonics Audio Guide

There are 26 letters of the alphabet but they make 44 sounds. Use the audio guide below to hear all 44 sounds, on their own and in example words.

https://cdn.oxfordowl.co.uk/2016/05/05/20/22/32/561/20097_content/index.html?id=ae

Learn to read with Phonics: a parent's guide

Find out how your child uses Phonics at school and how you can help at home. This webpage also includes useful videos on how to pronounce pure sounds and how to blend sounds to read words.

https://home.oxfordowl.co.uk/reading/learn-to-read-phonics/

Recommended Reading Lists

Here are a list of year group specific, high quality texts that we use in school to support our English curriculum. We encourage children to access these books at home, through the library service or online.

Supporting your Child read at home

Book Chat

Click below to read a document about what Book Chat involves and how to use it to support your child's reading.

Key phrases to use with your child:

Folllow the link below and scroll down the page to find videos of Book Chat in action:

Ben Harris (Teacher) reads One Fox by Kate Read for 5+

Richard Charlesworth (Teacher) reads A House that Once Was by Julia Fogliano and illus. by Lane Smith for 7+

Then have a go and try some of these ideas with your child. Enjoy reading together!