Welcome to our curriculum pages, we hope you enjoy reading about our exciting learning challenge curriculum!
Rationale
Our school is a community of faith where we believe, achieve and grow together; this is core to our curriculum. We are a caring community, whose values are built on mutual trust and respect. To maximise success and achievement, all pupils and staff are fully committed to our core Christian values. The curriculum we offer is bespoke to the needs of all our learners; it has evolved to support the way in which the members of the school can flourish together in a supportive way. We believe that our core Christian values are the key facilitators of effective teaching and learning.
Our Curriculum Aims
At Barwick-in-Elmet Church of England Primary School, we place a sharp focus on the delivery of a carefully crafted curriculum, which expands the potential of our learning community through:
Our rigorous, well-planned curriculum, combined with high quality teaching and resourcing, ensures that children are supported to be well-rounded, empathetic young people who have a genuine thirst for learning. Children develop a strong sense of moral purpose in addition to a respect for- and understanding of- people.
The curriculum encompasses the planned activities that we as a school organise in order to promote learning, personal growth and development. It includes not only the formal requirements of the National Curriculum, but also the range of extra- curricular activities that the school organises in order to enrich the experiences of our children. We also have a commitment ensuring all our children flourish through our Essential Learning Experiences a bank of exciting, challenging experiences to ensure children flourish and enjoy ‘life in all its fullness.’ Embedded on our hidden curriculum is the transmission of values and beliefs that the children learn from the way they are treated and expected to behave. We aim to teach children how to grow into positive, responsible people, who can work and co-operate with others, whilst developing knowledge, skills and attitudes to learning, in order to unlock their true potential.
Intent
It is our aim that the pupils of Barwick in Elmet Church of England Primary School will embrace new learning opportunities and, through these experiences. Pupils will be empowered to become responsible, resilient, open-minded, and well-rounded individuals who will have a positive impact on society. We have designed and implemented a curriculum specifically with this in mind. Through this, we aim to stimulate their imagination, develop empathy, critical thinking, creativity and open their minds to global issues.
Through a sequentially organised curriculum and high-quality teaching and learning, we aim to offer creative, challenging and inspiring opportunities to reflect our vision as a community of faith, where we believe, achieve and grow together. Raising aspirations and enabling our pupils to become the best version of themselves is central to who we are.
At the heart of all our learning is our focus as a reading school. Therefore, we have implemented a curriculum that will not only build their confidence as learners, but also provide relevant experiences to develop their fundamental reading skills.