Curriculum at Southborough Primary School

To nurture a learning community where we develop the knowledge skills and experiences to become happy global citizens.

Our Vision;

Knowledge Through Nurture

The Six Principles Of Nurture

1.        Children's learning is understood developmentally
2.        The classroom offers a safe base
3.        The importance of nurture for the development of wellbeing
4.        Language is a vital means of communication
5.        All behaviour is communication
6.        The importance of transition in children's lives

Intent

We design our curriculum and the learning opportunities for the children around the principles of Nurture and our Vision.

Our Curriculum is based on enquiry to enable problem solving.

We understand Learning Developmentally and ensure that our curriculum progresses through and is inclusive.

The classroom and school is a safe base for learning. Classrooms communicate learning and our vision and enable children to thrive.

Nurture is at the core of what we do, as part of our curriculum and part of our praxis we focus on the well-being for everyone at school.

Communication is key at Southborough Primary School. We promote the use of talk across all subjects; developing language, confidence to express opinions and discuss ideas. Talking helps children to plan and organise their ideas before writing. We also instil a love of reading, books are central to our curriculum and are a focus for what we do.

To ensure children have a sense of achievement the children are encouraged to create and develop excellent work and they achieve well.

We develop the children’s belief in themselves through nurturing the children, and by giving them opportunities to experience excellence in themselves and in others. We have a rich extra-curricular offer. We do Forest Schools: we have our Edible Playground integrated into learning. There are opportunities to take part in PE and Music activities and competitions to experience and celebrate our learning and achievements.

Valuing and respecting each other is core to what we do and we ensure that this is central to our curriculum, children are taught our core values throughout the curriculum.

Children are given the opportunity to develop resilience in their learning, in the activities they undertake and through how we discuss and learn from what we do.

We inspire children through the interesting and exciting opportunities for learning we give them.

Learning key life skills is central to our curriculum, explicitly in our PHSE curriculum and implicitly in everything else that we do.

This is how we honour both our vision and values and the 6 principles of nurture in our curriculum.

Our Curriculum is topic based, using enquiry to engage and involve the children in their learning.

We use Talk for Writing and Power of Reading techniques to develop key communication skills.

Some elements of the curriculum are taught discretely, this includes MFL, Maths, PE and Computing.

We take opportunities to enrich the curriculum using any and every opportunity to engage and develop learners.

Outside learning is important to the school, Forest Schools and our Edible Playground give children an opportunity to develop their knowledge and skills in a wider context.

We have a rich extra-curricular offer including lunchtime and afternoon clubs.

Implementation and Impact;

We use Curriculum Teams to ensure that we are improving the Quality of Education across our Curriculum

Purpose;

• Ensuring that we are always aware of the key question; How can we ensure that we meet the learning needs of all children?
• Being aware of the schools vision, “Knowledge through Nurture” and our cooperative values.
• Improving Learning and Teaching in the school as the key to school improvement.
• Developing collaboration and collaborative process and collaboration as a habit.
• Developing reflection and reflective though as a way of improving praxis across the school.
• Ensuring that the ELT are good role models for this to develop the practice across the school.
• To develop the purpose of the curriculum, and to work together to ensure that this is honoured in our praxis. Intent
• To develop how we teach and what we teach across the school and to work together to ensure that this is honoured in our praxis. Implementation
• To develop processes to ensure that children are learning and to understand how well they are learning. Impact
• To develop coherence across the whole curriculum.
• To ensure that the overall whole school purpose, method of teaching and outputs are shared and honoured and developed.
• To improve the Quality of Education Throughout the school