Curriculum

Our Curriculum: INSPIRE

Our Curriculum Rationale is based on the acronym INSPIRE:

Individual, Nurture, Spiritual, Progress, Independence, Resilience, Encourage

Intent

At St Anne’s Catholic Primary School we strive to develop the whole person. We believe each child is a unique individual with God-given dignity. Children who leave St Anne’s Catholic Primary School will have developed a love of learning and have been ‘INSPIRED’ to reach their God-given potential. We want our children to be happy, confident and respectful by the time they move on to the next stage in their education. They will have made a positive contribution in our community and developed the importance of becoming active and environmentally aware citizens.

At St Anne’s Catholic Primary School we have Jesus as our role model and all that we do centres around our mission statement,

“Living and working as Jesus taught us.”

At St Anne’s Catholic Primary School we aim to provide:

• A curriculum which is challenging, exciting, dynamic, fun and relevant to our children and the community we serve.
• An inclusive curriculum which encourages, curiosity and analytical thinking and develops creativity, independence and resilience.
• A curriculum which builds on the interests, strengths, talents and experiences of our pupils.
• A curriculum that motivates and inspires all learners to ‘know more’
• A curriculum which celebrates cultural diversity and through which our pupils recognise their role as global citizens of the world.
• A curriculum which develops confidence in working both independently and collaboratively as part of a team.

• A curriculum that is adaptive, meeting the needs of all of our learners enabling them to reach their full potential and push their limitations.
• A curriculum that is coherently planned, progressive and builds on prior learning whilst also providing pupils with sufficient knowledge and skills for future learning.
• A curriculum that promotes achievement, confidence, good behaviour and leads to children feeling safe to try new things and opportunities to share their achievements in assemblies and other whole school events.
• Curriculum leaders and teachers who will evaluate their practice in order to make their subjects and learning experiences the best that they can be.
• A curriculum that provides opportunities for parental involvement and support in working together to provide the best outcomes for our children.
• A curriculum that provides opportunities for meaningful enrichment experiences across the curriculum to strengthen and deepen learning.

Implementation

We aim to deliver a rich, relevant curriculum, from Nursery to Year 6 through the EYFS Framework and National Curriculum. The foundation of this will be high-quality teaching of basic skills in English and Maths: focussing on vocabulary, oracy and spoken language across all subjects. Vocabulary is at the heart of our curriculum; reading is an essential skill for learning. Our curriculum is also sequenced to ensure that pupils will be immersed in stories and learn to read fluently, they will know their times tables and number bonds. Enhanced learning experiences beyond the classroom instilling knowledge, concepts and values will be provided. These include investigative, real life, practical activities which will engage and enthuse our children’s minds whilst enabling them to be INSPIRED to experience success. We strive for all our children to have a sense of belonging and realisation of their own unique and distinctive talents. Our ethos is rooted in our Gospel values which permeate through our entire curriculum.

At St Anne’s Catholic Primary, we are ambitious for all pupils. They will build upon a secure knowledge and skills sequentially across all subjects, enabling them to grow and develop personally and academically. Our curriculum will ‘INSPIRE’ children to want to learn more and provoke children’s intellectual curiosity. We will ensure that pupils grow academically in terms of knowledge and skills but of equal importance is their wider development: socially, morally, spiritually and culturally. We have enhanced subject expertise supplementing staff strengths by using specialist Computing Teachers, Modern Foreign Language and PE coaches to deliver high quality lessons for pupils. They not only enhance the learning experiences of our pupils, but further develop our staff too.

We implement a knowledge and skills based curriculum which is sequenced.

Our curriculum will:

• Ensure relevant content is embedded in long term memory
• Include what pupils actually remember from lessons
• Avoid the overloading of the working memory
• Provide spaced repetition for ‘overlearning’
• Have subjects taught discretely (links and common themes are planned for between subjects)
• Broaden horizons and open experiences to find out knowledge of life in different times and places
• Ensure an experience to creative and artistic skills and knowledge
• Mean access to high quality experiences
• Provide our pupils with the access to the wider locality and beyond
• Enable independent research (projects and our classes linked to countries)

Leaders continually review curriculum provision for each subject to ensure knowledge is sequenced and progressive within subjects, but also across subjects, where meaningful and relevant.

Our curriculum extends beyond academic achievements and we educate the whole child.

Impact

St Anne’s Catholic Primary School leavers are lovers of learning, having reached their full potential. They are happy, confident and respectful having made positive contributions in the community. They understand the importance of being active and environmentally aware in a culturally diverse society.

We consistently evaluate the impact of the curriculum through a series of monitoring measures including:

• Reviewing the curriculum intent
• Book looks
• Display work
• Pupil voice
• Learning walks
• Lesson observations
• Assessment (attainment and progress)
• Discussions with staff
• Evaluation

More information

If you require any further information about our school curriculum then please just contact the school.