Curriculum
Curriculum aims
In line with our Strategic Vision, our curriculum intends to:
- Provide a broad and balanced education for all pupils that’s coherently planned and sequenced towards enabling all pupils to achieve their potential.
- Enable pupils to develop knowledge, understand concepts and acquire skills through a love of learning with opportunities to choose and apply these in relevant situations.
- Promote the learning and development of our youngest children to ensure they are ready for their life-long learning journey.
- Ensure equal access to learning for all pupils, with high expectations for every pupil and appropriate levels of challenge and support.
- Develop our older pupils’ independent learning skills, resilience and adaptability using the school’s Learning Powers to equip them for their life-long learning journey and future employment.
- Support pupils’ well-being with careful planning and support of their spiritual, moral, social and cultural development.
- Support pupils’ physical development and responsibility for their own health.
- Support pupils’ to develop their social skills and develop positive relationships with adults and peers.
- Support pupils’ to succeed as confident, healthy and responsible members of the community.
Curriculum Policy 2020
Keeping in the loop - Mary Bassett Learning Themes
Over the course of this academic year we will guide all pupils through a rich and varied curriculum, designed specifically to meet their needs and represent the views of children, staff and parents & carers.
It is important to us that you feel involved and aware of the concepts and knowledge your child will be exploring. To help with this process we have designed a new ‘Curriculum Map’ that will provide you with a quick way of seeing what learning is happening and how all subject areas are woven into this experience.
If you feel you want more detail about the specific content of learning this year you will find available to you a document called “Weaving Knowledge & Skills”, which specifies more precisely the expectations for your child based on their Year group (Years 1 -4).
All documents for this academic year are already available for you to view within the Class Pages on the School Website, by following this link below:
How our Learning Theme Maps look:
The curriculum at The Mary Bassett Lower School is based around a number of learning themes. Each year group plans themes across the year that allow children to achieve skill and knowledge objectives in core and foundation subjects. Central to each theme are one or more high quality texts that serve as a significant learning point to not only develop reading and writings skills, but inspire curiosity to explore ideas and themes resulting from the key text. Learning provision supports children through a broad range of experiences in order to inspire their learning and promote understanding of the world beyond their current life experiences. This will include trips, events and experiences that enhance and inspire learning around the theme. In addition, each year group plans curriculum learning and experiences to support the specific needs of their current cohort, planning carefully for the developmental priorities of the children.
Subject leaders monitor the learning opportunities and outcomes children experience in their subject area. They support the development of their subject to ensure a progressive journey for children in core and foundation subjects during their time in our school.
Our curriculum design is enhanced with research-led practice that is supported by a number of external organisations. These include:
- National Centre for Excellence in Teaching for Maths (NCETM) MathsHUBs,
- The Centre for Literacy in Primary Education (CLPE) The Power of Reading,
- The National Children's Bureau (NCB) The Wellbeing Award for Schools
- Music Mark, School Music Mark
- Voice 21 (Supporting oracy across learning)
- The Cultural Learning Alliance (CLA)
- Jigsaw PSHE
- Discovery Education