Our Curriculum Intent

At Colden J and I School, our Curriculum has been designed to ensure each and every child can be healthy, happy and achieve their full potential. It is bespoke to the needs of our pupils, not only by focussing on appropriate subject specific knowledge, skills and understanding as set out in the National Curriculum, but by also providing experiences which go above and beyond this such as Forest School and active promotion of understanding of diversity. When considering our curriculum design, we consider everything that we do in and outside of school hours: it is not just what we teach in timetabled lessons, but the experiences we give our pupils, the provision we have for assemblies, the clubs we offer and the home learning tasks we set. With this in mind, our entire curriculum provision is always evolving as we react to the changing needs of our pupils and the changing nature of the world we live in.

Each subject area’s curriculum is designed so that our pupils know more and can do more with a clear progression of knowledge and skills. Where appropriate, logical links are made across subjects and the explicit teaching of vocabulary features across all curriculum areas. Within the school’s agreed framework, our teachers have the freedom to design long term plans to meet the needs of their class to ensure that all pupils, including those with SEND, those known (or previously known) to social care, disadvantaged pupils and those who may face barriers to their learning and/or well-being,  benefit from a rich and broad curriculum which nurtures learning, development and passions. We value the importance of excellent home-school links to ensure learning is shared with families to support further work at home.

As a whole school community, we value fun, creativity, empathy and aspiration.

At each stage, strong foundational learning is in place to ensure accuracy and fluency with respect word reading, spelling, handwriting and maths. This means that all children will be ready for their next stage in their learning journeys.

 

At Colden School:

· pupils will enjoy and care for their environment

· pupils will develop the ability to express themselves and communicate with others effectively

· pupils will develop empathy and good personal relationships with others

· pupils will become confident, optimistic, ambitious, and resilient in order that they can make a positive contribution to both the local and global community

· pupils will gain a life-long love of learning and the skills to crucially evaluate information

· pupils will learn to use technology safely and sensibly to prepare them to contribute to and shape a changing world

· pupils will be healthy, happy and achieve their full potential.

In summary, our aim is that our pupils are as well prepared as possible for their next stages in education including when they leave Year 6. That they are well-rounded and knowledgeable, they are proficient in the basic skills needed to succeed in life and in further schooling, they are imbued with a desire to achieve, and exhibit the self-belief that they can make a positive difference in the world.