Curriculum

Intent

Our curriculum is designed to be ambitious, coherent and progressive, providing all pupils with the knowledge, skills and understanding they need for life in modern Britain. Informed by the National Curriculum, it offers clear progression across subjects and ensures that learning is engaging, challenging and inclusive. We aim to equip every child to achieve highly, think critically and develop the confidence and resilience needed to succeed in the twenty-first century.

Implementation

Our curriculum is implemented through a pedagogical model rooted in metacognitive research. Teachers explicitly connect new learning to prior knowledge, provide clear explanations and examples, and give pupils guided practice to attempt new learning before applying skills independently. Knowledge and skills are deliberately sequenced to broaden understanding, strengthen prior learning and build secure, transferable schema as pupils move through school.

Foundation subjects are taught in blocks, with PSHE, Music, PE and MFL taught weekly. This structure allows pupils to immerse themselves in each subject and sustain progress without disruption. Because some subjects are revisited after longer intervals, we use daily, weekly and monthly retrieval to secure key knowledge in long-term memory. Regular opportunities to revisit and connect learning enable pupils to show increasing depth, make meaningful links and apply their understanding with confidence.

Champion Moments—such as trips, visitors and extra-curricula opportunities as well as creative text choices and parental involvement are integral to our curriculum. They enhance cultural capital, deepen understanding and motivate pupils. Performances and real-world experiences help pupils consolidate learning and celebrate success.

Through effective teaching, coherent sequencing, purposeful retrieval and rich enrichment, we ensure that all pupils access a curriculum that is consistent, ambitious and designed for strong long-term outcomes.

Impact

Assessment is used purposefully across the curriculum to ensure that pupils know more and remember more. In core subjects, termly assessments identify pupils’ attainment and inform timely interventions. In science and foundation subjects, teachers use assessment to support pupils in building increasingly complex schemas of knowledge and skills.

Pupils record their learning in age-appropriate ways, helping staff to identify gaps and plan effective retrieval and review sessions. Knowledge and skills are all assessed, with opportunities for pupils to show deeper understanding by making connections across subjects.

Our ‘Retrieval Curriculum’ ensures systematic revisiting of key knowledge, strengthening long-term memory and enabling pupils to apply their learning with growing confidence and depth.