We will implement our curriculum by providing a broad and balanced approach which will support each one of us to become successful learners, confident individuals and responsible citizens. We do this through:

• Offering a broad and balanced curriculum which develops the whole child. This is based upon the National Curriculum, our religious education curriculum and our school curriculum.
• Teaching subject specific knowledge, skills and concepts to ensure children master the content of each subject. We use the key areas of learning from the EYFS framework to feed into the National Curriculum objectives for the subject.
• Recognising the need for teaching substantive and disciplinary knowledge.
• Using a themed approach to planning that links learning in a purposeful way. This is used when appropriate to make links and connections between what children are learning.
• Motivating and giving children the opportunity to apply their knowledge across all subject areas to demonstrate a secure understanding, knowledge and skills.
• Creating an accessible curriculum with real life, first-hand experiences for children to apply their skills in a purposeful way.
• Utilising local resources, our rich heritage and local skills to enable children to see their learning as purposeful so they can become responsible citizens in their own locality.
• Utilising a range of stimuli and resources that are inclusive of the different learning styles, needs and interests of the children, enabling all children – regardless of background or ability – to succeed and achieve their ambitions.
• Developing children’s curiosity and teaching them the importance of asking their own questions and having the opportunity to answer them in a range of different ways to enable them to take risks and challenge existing stereotypes.
• Enabling our children to take risks, problem solve and aspire to be aspirational and successful learners.
• Creating a mutually supportive learning environment where children are ambitious and ask the big questions about their learning, using the correct vocabulary to support them.
• Promoting the fundamental British Values as part of spiritual, moral, social and cultural development, including the use of pupil voice as a tool for school improvement.
• Working closely with a number of partners who enhance our curriculum. For example, the Sport Partnership. See individual policies for details.
• Providing a range of extra-curricular activities for children to further develop interests.
• Supporting learning through the use of knowledge organisers that provide children with a scaffold to retain new facts and vocabulary in their long term memory. Knowledge organisers are used for pre-teaching, to support home learning and also as a part of a weekly review in lessons.
• Providing opportunities for children to learn about their health and the need to safeguard themselves from harm and to know what to do if this happens to them.
• Using CTMM strategies to support children to retain and build on prior learning. These may include: avoiding cognitive overload, asking hinge questions, including retrieval strategies, scaffolds and spaced learning. 

Also see individual curriculum subject policies as well as the safeguarding and RSE policies.

What is themed-based learning?

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