Curriculum Driver Details 24-25
What are Curriculum Drivers?
Termly learning journeys allow our children to have opportunities in a wide breadth of experiences. Our pupils’ backgrounds, our culture and our climate for learning provide additional drivers (additional to DFE expectations and the national curriculum) that underpin all areas of our curriculum. These drivers are renewed annually to ensure that our curriculum provision is malleable and responsive to the changing context of the local, national and global community that we live in as well as taking into account the specific needs of our children.
For 2024-2025, in consultation with children, parents / carers, staff and governors, we have selected:
The Great Outdoors
The Great Outdoors
The aim of this driver is to open children’s minds to all that our outside environment offers us in terms of health, well-being, excitement of new experiences and learning to overcome challenges that the natural world provides. We aim to extend our ‘outstanding’ provision beyond the classroom and into our school, local and national environments. This will be achieved through lessons being delivered outside to specific skills being taught through outdoor adventures activities and PE lessons.
We want our children to move away from screens and understand and embrace all that the great outdoors offers them.
Eloquent & Articulate
In an age of technology and changes in language used to simplify our communications, it is too easy to allow this shorthand to seep into everyday conversations and real life dialogue.
This driver aims to teach children the importance of clear and precise articulation and how to achieve it. We want our children to have a wide vocabulary base and use this to express their views and opinions, including their feelings and emotions. We also want our children to be interesting and thoughtful to engage with, knowing that the building of good relationships is fundamental to future success.
Eloquent & Articulate
Understanding 'Me' & Respecting 'Us'
Understanding ‘Me’ & Respecting ‘Us’
In recent years the increased focus on mental health and well-being, combined with the increased use of social media and ease of availability of most things, has tended to lead adults and children alike to think about their wants and needs as part of an overall picture of their own well-being. We know that well-being does not stop with our needs being met, it starts with our needs being met and the route to happiness is to be in service of something greater than ourselves, being part of a positive community and overcoming challenges to improve ourselves. Our children can only achieve this if they understand that life is not ‘Me! Me! Me!’ but ‘Me’ and then ‘we’!’ and this in turn can only happen if we understand who we are, how to regulate ourselves and learn to respect and support others to meet their needs too.