Curriculum Intent

CURRICULUM INTENT

To provide a broad and balanced, enquiry based curriculum for all children which enables skills and knowledge to be progressively built in each subject.

Curriculum Drivers

Our curriculum provides a broad range of experience for our pupils and is underpinned by curriculum drivers which are woven throughout all learning and experiences. These take into account our pupils’ backgrounds, our culture and our climate for learning.

• Possibilities- which helps the children to build aspirations and know available possibilities for their future lives.
• Diversity- which helps the children to understand the world is a diverse and interdependent place where disability, colour and religious beliefs and all of our differences, are to be celebrated.
• Community-within school, we build a positive community spirt using peer activities, pairing younger and older students. The wider community is encouraged to come into school through volunteering to support children in various activities. We also use the local area as often as possible to teach curriculum objectives and invite local services, such as the emergency services, or local adults to talk about their jobs to support children’s learning. We have strong links with Wingerworth Parish Church and often use the church facilities and have guest speakers from the church community.
• Initiative- which helps children to grow as independent learners with the ability to find out and enquire for themselves.

Our Curriculum Provides Appropriate Balance

We believe our children should develop both their academic, personal and social abilities whilst in our care. Therefore, our curriculum gives pupils an excellent mix of both academic and personal development; it gives equal importance to core and foundation subjects; physical and mental wellbeing are both equally valued. Our curriculum provides effective opportunities for pupils to develop their learning across a range of subjects. Pupils complete well-designed activities that enable them to become secure in their knowledge and understanding. Through this, pupils develop the skills necessary to be effective citizens in modern Britain.

Spiritual, moral, social and cultural development, along with a well-planned and structured programme of personal development, which meets the ever-changing needs of the children, underpins all of our work. Our pupils are ambitious, keen to do well and proud of their school.

We carefully balance the requirement for pupils to reach and exceed national expectations in core subjects with our wider curriculum aims of providing a full spectrum of thoughtful and enriching experiences, such as visits to places of historical or environmental interest, complement pupils’ learning across the curriculum. We offer a wide range of clubs and activities to enable pupils to develop interests outside the curriculum. Sports clubs, inter- school competitions, music lessons and curriculum based clubs encourage the pupils to explore their interests in full.