Our Curriculum

The curriculum is organised into discrete subjects with meaningful cross-curricular links to strengthen connections. There are opportunities to apply reading, writing and mathematics skills in other subjects. Each year, we have two whole school cross-curricular themed curriculum weeks to develop the Arts and Creativity. In the recent past, these have included an Arts week with the theme of ‘Environment and Recycling’, Coventry City of Culture celebration film festival event with the theme of Coventry’s transport heritage shared through the Arts and digital media, ‘The Lost Words’ with a focus on art, poetry and performance.  Throughout the year, we plan whole school specialist curriculum days such as Author Days, World Book Day, Science Day, Maths Day and International Day to provide children with inspirational experiences. Each History or Geography topic is introduced with a ‘Wow’ morning to inspire the children using story-telling, drama, resources, recap prior knowledge and share the learning journey. Specialist teachers who teach our Art, PE, Design + Technology, Computing and MFL have excellent subject knowledge and teaching skills to provide high quality teaching and learning for our pupils in these subjects. A range of after school clubs are offered to broaden children’s experiences.

High quality texts are at the heart of the curriculum and children are exposed to a wide, varied and diverse diet of texts across the life of the school. Reading supports writing and a high quality text is used as a stimulus for writing opportunities to enable children to learn and apply writing skills in context. We have a vocabulary spine across the school for all subjects and vocabulary is taught systematically. Oracy and the development of speaking is a priority: we use talk partners to share ideas and orally rehearse sentences, children are encouraged to speak in sentences and we are developing this area further.

To ensure that pupils develop secure knowledge, skills and understanding that they can build on, each subject is organised into a progression model that outlines the sticky knowledge, skills and vocabulary to be taught in a sequentially coherent way in each year group. Assessment of these skills takes place throughout, and includes reviews and a formal assessment at the end of each unit, allowing teachers, subject leaders and SLT to ensure that progression is clear and effective. All aspects of the curriculum are carefully mapped out to ensure that pupils build on secure prior knowledge, so that they can make meaningful connections within and across subjects. Clearly defined learning objectives and success criteria are implemented through the delivery of high-quality lessons, assessment for learning strategies are used to adjust the flow of the lesson. Opportunities for children to revisit knowledge such as quizzes and recall are planned into the teaching sequence

See our Teaching and Learning Policy for more detail.