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St Mary's CE Primary School

Everyone learning, everyone succeeding.

Curriculum Offer

Our curriculum is fully inclusive, encouraging every child to engage and flourish.  It is broad, balanced, progressive and exciting, supporting all our children as they grow into independent, confident, articulate learners who are ready for the next stage of their education and life beyond in modern Britain.

 

We take the time to help children to develop their own, individual point of view. Our curriculum offers children the chance to develop and further their own interests in different subject areas, as we know this has a positive impact on their levels of confidence and engagement. Our children are empowered with extra responsibilities such as school leadership team, the worship crew and play leaders, making sure they are included in the running of the school and have a meaningful say in its future. 

 

Excellent outcomes for all will be planned using the national curriculum and early years foundation stage curriculum as a basis. From this all adults will deliver meaningful learning reflecting the needs of the community. Learning outcomes will demonstrate planned use of school grounds, the local community, and our society.  

 

Equality and diversity in our curriculum is of the highest priority as we work to decolonise and diversify our curriculum. Opportunities are planned to see learning from different perspectives and to learn and grow from this and create a sense of belonging for all. Safeguarding is threaded through all we do and everything we teach, supporting children to feel safe and have a sense of belonging.

 

We provide a solid foundation of literacy and numeracy skills from Early Years to Year 6, ensuring that all our children have the foundations for future learning. Learning across all curriculum areas promotes knowledge and the development of appropriate skills.

 

Developing a child's love for reading is incredibly beneficial for their development, well-being and academic achievement across the curriculum. All children, from EYFS up, are afforded time to discover new books, share their personal reading experiences and read with adults and their peers. Great readers go on to become creative writers, scientists, historians and succeed in all areas of learning. 

 

Oracy is a key driver for our curriculum, and we teach both the explicit skills of learning to talk and talking to learn through all subject areas. We know this has a huge impact on academic attainment, especially for those children who are disadvantaged.

 

We work in partnership with organisations that enrich our curriculum, driven by evidence-based research, such a the GLOW Maths Hub, Thrive, IQM, Voice 21 and Walk Thrus. Much of our curriculum is written by CUSP and planned by our teachers, using quality resources with our children in mind.