Curriculum Overview
Curriculum Intent
Our curriculum is ambitious, inclusive and designed to meet the needs of all learners. It aims to develop confident, curious and articulate pupils who are well prepared for the next stage of education and life beyond school.
The curriculum is underpinned by three drivers: critical thinking, communication and collaboration and cultural experience. These are explicitly woven through all subjects to ensure pupils develop secure knowledge, deeper understanding and the ability to think, reason and engage with the wider world.
A low entry, high ceiling approach ensures that all pupils can access learning successfully while being appropriately challenged. Adaptation is central to our intent, enabling staff to respond precisely to individual needs and ensure equity of access to the full curriculum.
Curriculum Implementation
The curriculum is delivered through carefully sequenced pathways supported by high-quality schemes of work, including the Literacy Company, NCETM and Power Maths. Early reading is taught through Little Wandle Letters and Sounds Revised, providing a consistent and systematic approach to phonics, fluency and early reading. This ensures strong foundations in reading for all pupils.
Learning is designed through structured, enquiry-based journeys, particularly in science and humanities, where curriculum content is framed around key questions. These are brought to life through a narrative approach inspired by Hywel Roberts, often beginning with a “let’s say” moment that introduces a person, place and problem to engage learners and promote purposeful enquiry.
Teaching is characterised by clear modelling, explicit instruction, high-quality questioning and structured opportunities for talk and collaboration. Teachers adapt learning in response to ongoing assessment to ensure all pupils are supported and challenged appropriately.
Curriculum Impact
High expectations underpin all aspects of curriculum design and classroom practice. Pupils are supported to engage fully with an ambitious curriculum and are encouraged to achieve their full potential.
Through coherent sequencing, consistent teaching approaches and responsive adaptation, pupils are making increasingly secure progress and demonstrating growing depth of knowledge and understanding across the curriculum. Leaders maintain a precise and accurate understanding of performance, which is used to inform ongoing curriculum refinement and continuous improvement.
Outcomes continue to strengthen over time as consistency in teaching becomes more embedded and targeted support ensures pupils are well supported to secure key knowledge and close gaps in learning. Interventions, including Pathways to Progress and Little Wandle Rapid Catch Up, contribute to ensuring pupils can access and succeed within the full curriculum offer.
Pupils are developing as confident communicators who can articulate their thinking clearly, work collaboratively and engage with learning with increasing independence. They show curiosity, resilience and a positive attitude to learning across the curriculum.
Formative assessment is used effectively to identify next steps in learning and to ensure teaching is responsive, adaptive and focused on securing strong progress for all pupils.
Rationale
Our curriculum is underpinned by the belief that all children are entitled to a high-quality, knowledge-rich education. We combine national schemes with carefully adapted planning to ensure consistency alongside responsiveness to need.
We are proud to be part of the Cheshire and Wirral Maths Hub and the Childer Thornton English Hub, which support ongoing professional development and curriculum enhancement.
This approach ensures our curriculum is coherent, inclusive and ambitious, enabling all pupils to achieve well and develop a lifelong love of learning.
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