Our Curriculum
This section is focused on the curriculum and provides an overview of the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) Framework and the National Curriculum offer for children in Years 1 to 6.
English
Oracy
Mathematics
Religious Education
Science
Art and Design
Computing
Design and Technology
Geography
History
MFL
Music
Physical Education
PRSHE
Reading and Phonics
Our curriculum promotes ‘life in all its fullness’ through access to a high quality, broad and balanced curriculum that is enriched with enjoyable and engaging experiences. These experiences are carefully planned to support the development of knowledge, skills and enriched cultural capital. This will include the provision of an ambitious body of procedural and semantic knowledge to develop long term memory.
Our curriculum design is based on principles derived from evidence through cognitive science:
- Learning is most effective with spaced repetition.
- Retrieval of previously learnt content is frequent and regular, which increases both storage and retrieval strength.
In addition to the principles, we also understand that learning is invisible in the short term and that sustained mastery takes time.
Our content is subject specific. We make intra-curricular links to strengthen schema.
Continuous provision, in the form of daily routines, quizzing and starters to lessons, provides retrieval practice for previously learnt content.
The long term planning in the school sets out when and what component is taught for each curriculum subject to ensure full coverage. Foundation subjects are planned over a two-year cycle to accommodate mixed age group classes. The content is coherently planned to allow for a progressive, well-developed curriculum that builds on skills to develop strong procedural and semantic knowledge, providing a deeper, more sustainable understanding of the curriculum content where children are active in making connections to everyday life and the world they live in.
Our weekly timetable is bespoke for each class to provide full coverage of each subject whilst efficiently using curriculum time to retrieve previously taught knowledge and skills from long term memory. The school day itself has been revised to better match Curriculum 2014 and to assist in a creative yet balanced delivery of the curriculum subjects.
Curriculum Leads
| Staff | Role | Responsibilities |
| Mrs S. Rand | Headteacher | DSL SENDCO Team Behaviour Team Lead Weekly Newsletter LAC DT Team Teach Trainer Health and Safety Attendance Champion |
| Ms E Wilson | Deputy Headteacher | PPA cover teacher SENDCO Team Lead Deputy DSL Assessment English Lead Behaviour Team Team Teach Trainer |
| Mrs L Connor | Assistant Headteacher | Y6 Teacher DSL Curriculum Lead PPA and Cover Behaviour Team |
| Mrs H Edinboro | Nursery Teacher | ELKLAN Lead |
| Mrs L Worrall | Nursery Teacher | RWi Nursery Lead Communication Friendly Setting Lead Rights Respecting Schools Lead |
| Mrs N Clapton | Reception Teacher | DT Lead |
| Mrs N Clapton | Reception Teacher | DT Lead |
| Miss H Morgan | Reception Teacher | Art Lead |
| Miss E Kemp | Y1 Teacher | Early Reading Lead RWI Lead Early Writing Lead |
| Mrs S Rutter | Y1 Teacher | Global Neighbours Lead Spirituality Lead |
| Mrs H Pattinson | Y1 Teacher | PE enrichment and clubs lead |
| Miss B Boagey | Y2 Teacher | PSHE & RSE lead |
| Miss W Bracher | Y2 Teacher | ECT Shadowing PE Lead |
| Miss L Teasdale | Y3 Teacher | SEND Team |
| Mrs G Scoby | Y3 Teacher | Science |
| Miss K Morgan | Y3 Teacher
|
ECT induction tutor OPAL Lead Voice 21 Literacy Specialist |
| Miss G Hodgers | Y4 Teacher | Geography Lead |
| Mr T Attewill | Y4 Teacher | Computing Lead MFL Lead SCITT lead |
| Mr J Parkinson | Y5 Teacher | PE Lead |
| Miss R Hearn | Y5 Teacher | History Lead |
| Mr M Wilson | Y6 Teacher | RE Lead Worship Lead |
| Mrs S Mallam | Y6 Teacher | Maths Lead |
| Mrs C Cooper | EMS Teacher | SEND Team Zones of Regulation Lead Behaviour Team |
| Mrs F Galloway | PPA Cover | Music Lead |
To find out more about our curriculum, please click the links above for specific subjects. Parents can check out our teacher’s termly overviews on the parents and carers page. To further support parents, we offer parents appointments each term and book looks in the opposite term. We also send out short reports during the year and a longer report at the end of the year. We also use Class Dojo to share information on what children are learning during the week.
If you want any further information please get in touch with Mrs S. Rand (Headteacher). If you e-mail the school on StMarks@oneexcellence.co.uk