St. Mary’s Primary School Curriculum Vision
Founded in hope St. Mary’s CE (VA) Primary School is a place where all can find their voice, grow in wisdom and live well in community and service.
St Mary’s serves a rich, ethnically diverse, inner-city community with significant location deprivation. Our curriculum provides exciting, stimulating and meaningful learning in an environment where all children can achieve.
Our curriculum has been carefully chosen and logically sequenced so that knowledge is built upon between year groups and is revisited regularly to promote its acquisition into our children’s long-term memory. In this way, the knowledge in the curriculum is cumulative, constructing firm foundations from which children can build conceptual understanding and skills over time. Core knowledge has been identified.
Through our broad and balanced curriculum, ambitious and rich vocabulary is taught. The vocabulary content of the curriculum has been meticulously planned with the purpose of addressing the ‘word gap’ for children who enter school with a limited vocabulary.
The knowledge rich curriculum provides exciting opportunities for children, of all backgrounds to achieve and through growing in wisdom, finding our voice and living well in community we have the hope for a better future.
Children will:
Grow in wisdom
• Children will grow in wisdom though subject specific knowledge, skills and understanding as set out in the National Curriculum. We foster a love of learning so that children can reach and exceed their potential academically, spiritually, physically and artistically.
Find their voice
• Children will have the opportunities to develop their vocabulary, grow in self- confidence and communicate effectively while learning to use their voices for the power of good.
Live in community and service
• Children will explore diverse cultures and traditions, they will make global, national and local connections to develop their understanding of others and their own community.
Children will reflect and grow together participating in community projects and learning the joy of helping others.
Our Foundation Stage Curriculum is the underpinning of all learning throughout school. All learning is linked and everything will be relevant, this approach ensures that the topics we teach support children in the future. Previous learning is built upon by teaching new knowledge and skills and then planned opportunities are provided where children can apply what they have learnt through child-initiated activities and planned independent tasks.
Our Special Educational Needs and Disabilities Curriculum is inclusive by design it takes on a holistic approach to the child, encompassing National Curriculum objectives, alongside inclusive and bespoke learning programmes to promote cohesion between learning that takes place in mainstream school and an additional a safe, nurturing and enriching learning environment. The children will have access to Reading through Phonics, Writing, Maths, and Science together with intensive interaction activities, early play-based learning strategies, sensory play, and planned group opportunities that build a curriculum that is personalised and meaningful to them.