Curriculum Statement
Curriculum Intent 2025-28
1 Corinthians 16:14
Do everything in love
Guided by God’s love, our courage, compassion and advocacy inspire others nurturing, self-belief, resilience and confidence. Together, as one community and one family, we flourish socially, morally academically, and spiritually achieving our dreams and showing the world just who we are.
Our children need opportunities to build meaningful relationships with themselves, each other and our community. We aim to develop strong foundational knowledge in Early Years and KS1 and build on this through an inspiring, broad, enjoyable and creative curriculum that engages, excites and ignites a love of learning. Our curriculum must celebrate our rich community and provide children with the opportunity to engage with the best of what has been thought, said and produced (cultural capital). The curriculum needs to be meaningful and will enable pupils to achieve fluency and mastery through coherent learning sequences that build on prior knowledge. Children must have opportunities to apply knowledge with increasing complexity to a range of contexts over time. Our curriculum must enable pupils to develop resilience, confidence, advocacy and their understanding of their place in the world at a time of significant societal change. The curriculum will teach social responsibility, enable pupils to act with compassion and moral purpose and will get them to think about beliefs and spirituality. Love is essential and never has the need been greater to ignite a lifelong love of learning.
The foundations: What are we trying to achieve?
1) Loving others: Strong inspiring respectful relationships, community identity, character education, cultural capital, citizenship and advocacy
2) Loving ourselves and something greater: Healthy, resilient, confident, communicators and problem solvers who value self-improvement and have self-belief. They develop morality through understanding of core Christian values and explore of belief and spirituality
3) Loving learning: Inspiring, meaningful and impactful learning with pupils achieving basic skills, mastery, fluency and a broad body of knowledge set out in the National Curriculum
Curriculum Implementation (Pedagogy)
Loving Others:
1) Opportunities to collaborate in oracy-based learning and to build knowledge over time. Staff will use questions and low stakes assessment to check for understanding and to deepen thinking and provide feedback
2) SMSC opportunities underpinned by peer advocacy groups, pupil leadership, peer tutoring, coaching and social action (advocacy)
3) Community projects, first hand experiences (including trips, visitors and workshops), enquiry, focus events and celebrations lead to a love of learning
4) Inclusivity in which pupils value diversity and teaching is adapted to meet the needs of all pupils and their cognitive capacity. Staff will use stages of practice to deliver content
5) A full range of clubs, enrichment activities and opportunities for pupils to be advocate
6) Celebrations and topic end points
Loving Ourselves:
1) Emotion coaching and zones of regulation developing courage, confidence and compassion
2) Growth Mindset and resilience with opportunities to work independently and collaboratively
3) Self-reflection, self-assessment and metacognition (learning to learn and loving learning)
4) Values-based worship allowing pupils to consider wider spiritual, social, cultural and moral questions
5) Cross-curricular opportunities to develop healthy lifestyle choices and emotional and mental well-being
6) Spiritual growth through planned and unplanned opportunities
Loving Learning:
1) An inspiring, rich and broad curriculum built on meaningful experiences and covers the full National Curriculum delivered through subject specific teaching and cross curricular links
2) Creative, cross-curricular themes/topics/projects rich in oracy (learning through and to talk), language (vocabulary) and literacy built on a clear progression framework for each subject
3) Pupils are able to link learning and build schemata with iterative learning opportunities that interrupt forgetting e.g. regular reviews. This enables pupils to achieve over time and demonstrate subject specific thinking
4) Reading widely to unlock learning. Reading is power
5) Skilled ongoing assessment leading to practise, support and challenge at the point of need. Staff identifying gaps and misconceptions and adapting the curriculum accordingly
Curriculum Impact (Outcomes)
Loving Others
1) Pupils develop character, build strong positive relationships built on respect, compassion and advocacy
2) Pupils appreciate cultural capital curated by staff. This is evident in a broad range of subjects
3) Pupils know their place in their communities (local, national and global)
4) Pupils make a positive contribution to society through advocacy.
5) Pupils are accepting of difference and value diversity and equality
6) Pupils are articulate and communicate well to a range of audiences
Loving Ourselves
1) Pupils are resilient, confident and have the courage to take on challenge
2) Pupils are physically, emotionally and mentally healthy and form positive relationships
3) Pupils understand the relevance of faith in today’s world ad explore spiritual and moral questions
4) Pupils have a strong personal sense of morality and spirituality. The build strong relationships and show forgiveness
5) Pupils know how they learn best and can apply this to new learning
Loving Learning
1) Pupils love learning
2) Pupils develop a deep body of knowledge. Pupils know more and remember more in each curriculum subject. They develop deeper learning and are able to apply subject knowledge and concepts e.g. thinking like a historian. They are well prepared for transition and achieve well
3) Pupils develop basic skills leading to fluency and mastery in each area of learning and have the oracy skills to communicate effectively
4) Pupils are able to re-apply knowledge and themes to new contexts
