Our Curriculum
Curriculum Intent
Our Curriculum meets the legal requirements of the Early Years Foundation Stage Curriculum and the Primary National Curriculum. It is delivered through high quality sequential, subject specific learning. The themes of Community, Global Learning and Christian Values weave throughout our curriculum. Each child's unique gifts are recognised and nurtured in order to prepare them to be educated with the knowledge to become successful citizens in a global world.
Curriculum Implementation
The principle of our curriculum is to teach all pupils through a mastery approach. This provides them with the opportunity to keep up with the pace of learning and gaps are addressed immediately. Teaching for mastery means that all pupils are taught together as a whole class through a high quality, inclusive teaching approach.
Our curriculum:
- Meets the needs of individual pupils.
- Ensures all our pupils are exposed to the whole curriculum.
- Is scaffolded and resourced in a way to make it accessible for all to learn.
- Allows retrieval of prior learning, exposure, production, then lots of practice.
- Allows our children the opportunity to record their work and externalise their thinking.
- Encourages the development of fluency over time.
- Encourages independence and resilience to deal with complexity and new contexts.
- Teaches all pupils the same objective through scaffolding and challenge.
- Allows all children to achieve some degree of mastery.
- Ensures children will work at broadly the same pace, with gaps being plugged immediately.
- Ensures oracy is key.
- Exposes pupils to an environment enriched with subject specific vocabulary.
- Ensures formative assessment is key.
Curriculum Impact
The impact of the curriculum is monitored though triangulation of outcomes: pupil voice, test/data outcomes, planning, monitoring of books and displays, learning visits, discussions with teaching staff, pupils and parents.
Pupils leave Stanford in the Vale CE Primary School with a secure understanding of the academic content; with the understanding of how to be socially, morally, spiritually and culturally responsible and aware; how to make positive contributions to the local community and how to endeavour to be the best that they can be. We aim for all of our children to leave Stanford respectful, knowledgeable, ambitious and with a thirst for life and all it has to offer.
Equality Duty Statement
The curriculum complies with the duties outlined in the Equality Act 2010. We are committed to ensuring that the approaches and methods used to teach a range of issues do not subject individual pupils to discrimination.
Our curriculum also complies with the Special Educational Needs and Disabilities Regulations 2014. Information about the school's policies for making provision for pupils with special educational needs (whether or not pupils have EHC Plans) is explained in more detail in the SEND Information report.
In our phonics teaching, we follow the accredited SSP programme: Twinkl Phonics.
Outdoor learning is a key feature in Foundation and KS1 and all children have weekly Nature School sessions.
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