Curriculum Intent
Curriculum Intent
At Fullwood Primary School we believe in providing a safe and stimulating environment which enables every child to achieve their best through varied learning experiences so that they can be confident children who feel the accomplishments of their achievements. This is our school’s vision and we believe that a positive partnership between teachers, parents and carers and children will help us to achieve our vision.
We believe in developing the ‘whole child’. We want our children to go onto secondary school and beyond with good maths and English skills but also the social and emotional skills to be able to navigate themselves successfully in the wider world.
Please read on to find out more about our curriculum Intent:
Our curriculum provides a broad range of experiences for our pupils and promotes Cultural Capital:
Bespoke, personalised termly learning journeys allow our children to have opportunities in a wide breadth of experiences and learning is set in context. Pupils enjoy a ‘full spectrum’ of academic, physical, spiritual, moral, social and cultural activities that enrich their lives. We use these experiences to build connections between all areas of the curriculum and applications in life. Through follow up work, discussions and comparisons, children can build their cultural capital, giving them every chance to succeed academically and engage in wider society. Our curriculum enables all of our children to have the confidence and skills they need to be happy, life-long learners.
We adopt a ‘blended approach’ to learning, building on the most effective strategies from our remote education experiences and embedding them into our policies, routines and practices to support effective learning.
Our curriculum provides appropriate balance:
Our curriculum therefore gives pupils an excellent mix of academic and personal development; it gives equal importance to core and foundation subjects; physical well-being and mental well-being are both valued, understood and prioritised by our careful consideration of curriculum design. Spiritual, moral, social and cultural development, along with a well-planned and structured programme of personal development, underpins every area of our school. It is embedded within our curriculum and is monitored as closely as academic subjects. We carefully balance the requirement for pupils to reach national expectations in core subjects with our wider curriculum aims of providing a full spectrum of thoughtful and enriching experiences to develop the ‘whole’ child. As a result our pupils thrive.
Our curriculum guarantees progression:
Our curriculum provides a balance between the skills and content that is taught due to the effective learning of skills alongside knowledge. We aim to set our lessons and activities in the context of ‘real life’ to ensure children enjoy their learning and can see how skills learned are used in everyday life. Our schemes of work are designed so that progression is based on the opportunities that the children have to reinforce and extend prior learning of content and skills each year. The skills that are taught in Year 1, in every subject, are built upon throughout the children’s time at Fullwood so that children leave us in Year 6 with the best possible chance of success at secondary school.
Our curriculum fosters a deep level of understanding:
Our schemes of work are designed, in each subject area, to allow for revisiting the ‘Key Indicators’ throughout a phase. This ensures that children have more than one opportunity to learn the objective and build upon a basic understanding. Lessons are planned to teach a Basic, Advanced or Deeper understanding of the skills and follow up activities are adapted and scaffolded to support this. Children have excellent opportunities to develop skills to a mastery level whilst new contexts add complexity to any tasks set.
How do we ensure our curriculum is inclusive?
We at Fullwood pride ourselves on our inclusive practice. As part of our duties in the Equality Act 2010 and the Special Educational Needs and Disability Regulations 2014, we ensure that our curriculum is accessible for those with disabilities or special educational needs by adapting our provision to meet all of our children’s needs.
Please also see our SEND/Inclusion page.