Curriculum Overview

CURRICULUM INTENT

At Neroche Community Primary School we are dedicated to excellence. This underpins our ambitious curriculum for all learners, which secures their retained knowledge.

As a school, we believe that both children and adults learn new things every day, building upon and retaining their existing knowledge. We are committed to ensuring that all children, including those from the most disadvantaged backgrounds and those living with identified special needs, are equipped for their next stage of their education.

We maintain that learning should be a rewarding and enjoyable experience for everyone, and that it should be fun and memorable. Through delivering high quality, coherently planned and sequenced learning opportunities, we endeavour to equip children with the skills, knowledge and understanding necessary to be able to make informed choices.

The aim of our curriculum is to develop a learner first approach that promotes our school values of ‘Shine Bright’, ‘Be the best that you can be’ and ‘Show that you care’. We aim for children to do more, remember more and ultimately learn more. Through our ambitious curriculum we aim to develop key learning virtues of perseverance; independence; determination; kindness; respect; compassion; courage; creativity and curiosity.

CURRICULUM IMPLEMENTATION

Through high quality teaching, we motivate children and build upon their existing skills, knowledge and understanding of the curriculum. We strongly believe that reading underpins every child’s successful educational journey, and we commit to ensuring this has a high priority within our curriculum.

We have high expectations of all our children and we are committed to ensuring that our school adults have strong subject knowledge to enable them to present subject matter clearly to the children.

We encourage children to be the best that they can be and work to their highest possible standard. We have high aspirations for our children and believe that our ambitious curriculum ensures that they are prepared for their next stage of their education. We constantly evaluate the impact on children’s continued learning journeys, ensuring that we modify and develop our future curriculum implementation.

All staff make a special effort to establish effective professional relationships with children, giving them the confidence to believe in themselves and take risks in their learning. We treat children with kindness and respect, reinforcing and modelling our school value of showing that we care, and we believe this has a significant impact on children’s potential to learn.

We praise children for their continued efforts in order to build on their ambition to be the best that they can be and develop positive attitudes towards being a lifelong learner.

We provide a stimulating environment, which enables and supports our curriculum implementation and helps children to focus on learning. We use display to support and celebrate children’s focused learning. This also evidences and shares the implementation of our curriculum with our wider community.

CURRICULUM IMPACT

At Neroche we ensure that the children are taught detailed knowledge and skills, which we reinforce at regular planned opportunities to impact on their retained knowledge.  Through our curriculum, we impact on children’s reading abilities and love of reading by providing regular opportunities for the children to read widely and often. This impacts on their knowledge and skills across the curriculum, along with impacting on children’s reading fluency and comprehension of texts.

To ensure impact on the children’s continued learning, subject leaders monitor their curriculum area, ensuring that progressive skills are built upon. This reinforces maximum curriculum impact and retention, preparing the children for the next stage of their learning journey.

Ultimately, thorough our learner first approach, we aim for our curriculum to have high impact on the children, enabling them to have high aspirations of themselves as learners and to achieve well.