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Curriculum

Curriculum Statement

As a school we firmly believe that our curriculum should be broad, balanced and relevant to our pupils, our community and our setting.  It should meet the needs of all children whatever their ability.

We use the National Curriculum 2014 as a starting point to ensure curriculum coverage is in line with the statutory guidance and then plan to include content relevant to our pupils and our school.  As a result, we have a bespoke curriculum, specifically designed for the pupils at Paulerspury Primary School.

Details of the why we choose to teach what we do, how we teach it and the effect it has can be found in our intent, implementation and impact document.

We the structure our planning sequence through three phases:

Long Term

Our long term plans give an overview of the curriculum taught in each year class.  These plans include elements from both year groups in the class and are reviewed regularly to ensure they remain relevant and interesting:

Medium Term

Our teachers then plan in more detail the content of each term.  We follow a local, national, international format in each year group.  

Short Term

Short term plans have clear learning objectives and outcomes understood by the children. They include information about the tasks set, the resources needed, ideas to address different learning styles and evaluation/assessment. Lessons are planned by class teachers and the format and amount of detail may vary depending on the experience and needs of individual members of staff. We consider short term plans to be a working plan that may need adjusting in the light of ongoing assessment and maximising children’s outcomes.

We use Talk4Writing as our main vehicle for teaching English.  This focuses mainly on writing but also included grammar and punctuation.  Spelling and reading are taught separately.

Our school has recently introduced a mastery approach to the teaching of mathematics.  Mastery takes the view that every child can achieve in maths and through focused teaching and use of concrete apparatus, visual jottings and abstract representations, allows children to develop deep understanding of the concepts covered.  There is a strong emphasis on correct mathematical vocabulary and terminology which is supported by the use of stem sentences.  Our vision for mathematics can be found here

Mixed age classes

Due to the size of our school our pupils are usually taught in mixed age classes.  This is normal for us and our teachers are very skilled at planning to accommodate this.  When in a mixed class children are taught content from one of the year groups in that class but still develop the skills relevant for their own age group.

To see the content of our curriculum, please look at our class pages and newsletters.

If you would like to know more about our curriculum, please contact the school office on 01327 811674 and ask to speak to your child’s class teacher.