Responsibility – Respect – Teamwork - Reflection

Stoke Prior First School is committed to meeting the requirements of the Early Years Framework and the National Curriculum, where our schemes of work are designed to reflect the content and challenge, as well as developing our  values, in order to prepare each individual for the next stage in their lives.

Our curriculum is designed to be progressive, knowledge rich, engaging and inspiring to all children, to ensure we nurture a passion for learning. We offer a broad and balanced curriculum that builds on the knowledge, skills, and understanding of all children through teaching both substantive knowledge and disciplinary knowledge in all subjects.

We approach this through half-termly schemes of learning that make cross-curricular links where it is appropriate and useful to do so. We aim to foster creativity in our children and to help them become independent learners. Above all, we believe in making learning memorable. Our curriculum is the means by which we achieve our objective of educating children in the knowledge, skills, and understanding that they need in order to lead fulfilling lives.

We welcome and value all children, laying the foundations for life by offering a positive, rich experience for all, making learning memorable. We provide a nurturing, well-resourced, and stimulating environment where children are happy, feel safe, and are guided, challenged, and supported to achieve their very best. Children achieve high standards and are engaged by learning that meets their needs, is interesting, provides challenge, and develops and excites their imagination. All children will benefit from a rich, broad, balanced curriculum with opportunities for first-hand experience, practical work, investigation, creativity and physical activity.

The curriculum is enlivened and enriched by visits, visitors, use of the environment, and after-school learning opportunities. At the heart our curriculum is the development of independent learning skills enabling our children to successfully meet the personal and economic challenges of life in the 21st Century.

We ensure our curriculum is literature rich and place a love of reading at the heart of all we do also. We promote healthy choices and lifestyles, positive behaviour, equal opportunities, independence, respect, responsibility, spiritual development, appreciation, and value of cultural diversity, and contributing to the community.

We maintain high expectations and a commitment to excellence at all levels of learning, teaching, leadership, management, and governance. We work in a close and effective partnership with parents, carers, Children's Services, and the wider community.

 

Aims and Objectives:

The aims of our school curriculum are:

✓ To enable all children to learn and develop their skills to the best of their ability, regardless of age, gender, background, or ability.

✓ To promote a positive attitude towards learning, so that children enjoy coming to school and acquire a solid basis for lifelong learning. ✓ To teach children to read.

✓ To teach children the basic skills of English, mathematics, and science.

✓ To enable children to be creative and to develop their own thinking

✓ To teach children about the developing world, including how their environment and society have changed over time.

✓ To help children understand Britain's cultural heritage and have a full understanding of British values.

✓ To appreciate and value the contribution made by all ethnic groups in our multi-cultural society.

✓ To enable children to be positive citizens and fulfill all the requirements of the National Curriculum and the Locally Agreed Syllabus for Religious Education.

✓ To teach children to have an awareness of their own spiritual development and to distinguish right from wrong.

✓ To help children understand the importance of truth and fairness, so that they grow up committed to equal opportunities for all.

✓ To enable children to have respect for themselves and high self-esteem and to live and work cooperatively with others.

✓ To regularly review our curriculum provision to ensure that it continues to promote excellence.

If you would like further information about our curriculum, please contact the school at any time.