Curriculum

At Anthony Curton CofE Primary School, we aim for all pupils to be successful learners, confident individuals and responsible citizens.

Overview

The curriculum at Anthony Curton and Tilney All Saints places ‘Powerful Knowledge” at the heart of the curriculum.

 

The knowledge in our curriculum is carefully chosen, sequenced in a meaningful way that enables children to progress incrementally and is highly specialised. Our curriculum is divided into subjects, recognising the identity of the disciplines we study, fostering a love for subject content that will flourish as children move through the curriculum.

 

Careful and thoughtful planning has allowed a curriculum that weaves important concepts such as fairness, justice, liberty, identity and power through a diverse range of contexts, in both place and time, building examples that children can draw upon as their understanding grows. The knowledge in the curriculum is cumulative, constructing firm foundations from which children can build conceptual understanding and skills over time.

 

Our curriculum nurtures the minds of children who will think often and deeply. Pupils will be taught meaningful content that builds on their prior knowledge. For many children, particularly those who have not gained it elsewhere, the establishment of that prior knowledge will begin with their very first lesson. Drawing on research-based cognitive science, there are carefully planned opportunities to recall and revisit vital prior knowledge and to strengthen retrieval from lesson to lesson, unit to unit and year to year. The knowledge base encourages children to infer, question, interpret, analyse, argue and reason. Most importantly, our curriculum provides children with the tools they need to participate in their own education that will continue for a lifetime.

 

For us, a knowledge-rich curriculum is an entitlement for every child, regardless of background. Curriculum coherence ensures that teaching does not jump from topic to topic, but enables children to develop knowledge, and love of subjects. Subject content is crucial to this approach- the content provides the engagement and plants the seeds for a lifetime of learning.

 

An essential element of a knowledge curriculum is the development of a broad and rich vocabulary, and the ambitious and explicit teaching of this.



If you would like to find out any more information about our well thought out and carefully sequenced curriculum, please contact the office and we will be happy to arrange for you to speak with a member of staff most suitable for the subject you wish to talk about.

 

Curriculums at Anthony Curton CofE

  • EYFS
  • The National Curriculum
  • Our Wider Curriculum
  • Curriculum Maps

In the Foundation Stage, the children learn through the Early Years Foundation Stage Curriculum where the focus is on learning through play. When staff judge children to be ready they begin working on the National Curriculum. At Anthony Curton CofE Primary School, we cover all aspects of the National Curriculum to enhance the learning experiences of the children.


Through the Foundation Stage, aspects of skills and knowledge from the National Curriculum are introduced in order to provide progression for the children.


At the beginning of each half term, teachers provide a curriculum map for the forthcoming term to all children and their parents which is sent out electronically or on paper as required.


These maps give details of what the class will be learning throughout the term in all subjects.

The National Curriculum sets out what children should know, understand and do in each year group in the following subjects: English, Maths, Science, Computing, Design and Technology, History, Geography, Music, Art and Design, Physical Education, Personal, Social and Health Education. We follow a local Cambridgeshire syllabus to teach Religious Education.


Our Curriculum is more than the National Curriculum and is designed to develop subject knowledge skills and understanding and develop key social and learning skills.


We plan topics and themes which will engage children and make learning meaningful, utilsing outdoor learning where possible e.g. Forest School, to deepen the impact. These themes draw together different parts of the National Curriculum. The school also follows E4L to support pupils’ social and emotional well-being.