Curriculum

We believe that children should be inspired and engaged by an ambitious and exciting curriculum.  We will take them on a journey to gain knowledge and practise and apply new skills, deepening their understanding and developing a lifelong love of learning.

We aim to develop the whole child helping them to become respectful and tolerant members of society with confidence and belief in their own ability.  We will teach them to become resilient and independent learners who learn from mistakes and know how to help themselves improve so they are ready for the next steps in their own learning journey.

We provide a curriculum that is inspiring, creative and challenging where key skills such as problem solving, thinking and working with others are fundamental to teaching and learning across the school. We often integrate subjects such as History, Geography, Science, Art and Design Technology with Maths, English and Computing, helping pupils to make meaningful connections between areas of study.

Our Curriculum Aims

Our curriculum has been designed to provide our children with all the skills, knowledge and experiences they need make good progress.

We aim to:

Growth Mind Set

The curriculum is adapted to meet the individual needs of our children, supporting and stretching them to achieve their best regardless of their ability level. Children are encouraged to consider their level of challenge in lessons and to use growth mind set principles to achieve their goals. This helps pupils to develop positive attitudes to their work, embracing challenge and understanding that over-coming setbacks and difficulties are the key to good learning. Integral to this are our school values of: respect, resilience, responsibility, creativity and aspiration.

We want all our children to become confident learners who are able to work both collaboratively and independently.  We plan with the individual needs of our pupils in mind. We recognise that children may learn best in different ways and at different speeds and this is reflected in our lesson planning, resources and development of the school environment in order to ensure every child is able to achieve success and make progress.

Curriculum Subjects


Y3-Y6 Curriculum Overview 2024-25

Religious Education

Children are encouraged to interpret and respond to a variety of concepts, beliefs and practices within different religions and to begin to explore their own cultural and life experiences. R.E. supports children’s spiritual, moral, social and cultural development. It recognises the Christian religious traditions in our country but takes account of the teachings and practices of other principal religions in order to build respect, tolerance and empathy.


Parental right to withdraw children from RE

A parent of a pupil at a maintained school can request that their child is wholly or partly excused from:

The school must grant such requests.

The right of parents to withdraw their children from religious education (RE) lessons is set out in section 71(1) of the School Standards and Framework Act 1998, in paragraph 1.

Assemblies and Collective Worship

All state schools are required to make provision for a daily act of collective worship which follows the requirements of the 1988 Education Reform Act.  Collective Worship takes place in the daily assembly which is non-denominational and broadly Christian.  Assemblies are special occasions when achievements are celebrated, values underlined and spiritual, moral, social and cultural development recognised.  The daily act of collective worship is a time of togetherness and reflection on values of importance to the school community.  This may take place as a whole school or year group in the hall or as class worship in the classroom.

Educational Visits

Both visits and visitors play an essential role in learning at school through inspiring and contextualising new knowledge and skills.  These vary from local walks to visits further afield by coach.