Aims & Intentions

We have 4 priority school improvement areas for 2024 – 2025 based on monitoring findings and the outcome of external visits to school.

Priority Area 1

To further develop behaviour across school to include: ongoing high-quality pastoral support; robust safeguarding procedures to include improving attendance

Priority Area 2

To further raise standards in writing, including presentation of work

Priority Area 3

To provide high-quality interventions

Priority Area 4

To further improve the EYFS environment and curriculum offer

 

We have 3 curriculum drivers:

Our Place in Our World

We want our pupils to grow up with a secure understanding of the local community, our national context and the wider world. Through a growing appreciation of different cultures and traditions, we want our children to develop respect; we want them to embrace and celebrate diversity and know what it takes to be a good citizen. We also want our pupils to have an awareness of global issues and to take responsibility for the environment. Our curriculum helps our pupils to improve their understanding of how the world works as well as appreciating the importance of their role in taking care of our planet. We recognise that trips and visiting speakers significantly enhance this aspect of the curriculum.

 

Oracy

Oracy and good communication skills are fundamental in being able to access the curriculum and able to develop as learners for life. Developing pupils understanding of vocabulary is key in being able to understand a subject.

Pupils will be exposed to vocabulary through the rich, high-quality texts we share will them. The principles of Talk for Writing are based upon pupils being able to talk a text before even attempting to write. We explicitly teach new vocabulary across the curriculum.

 Building Lasting Knowledge

 By developing a well-sequenced, progressive curriculum, we ensure that prior learning is revisited and built upon to build even deeper, stronger understanding. This is all based upon the principles of cognitive science, which all staff have had training in. Research base and evidence informed practice is used to carefully craft a curriculum that will ensure pupils have lasting knowledge, preparing them for the next stages of their education. Pupils will have opportunities to explore, question and reflect upon different concepts and ideas through an enquiry led curriculum.

Curriculum Drivers