Curriculum
Curriculum and Innovation Team
Our Curriculum and Innovation Team have successfully introduced a new and improved approach to planning and teaching the curriculum. This follows on from the work staff did last term with Chris Quigley (Curriculum Expert).
The aim is for our curriculum to be the best for our children at Shiney Row. We want it to be exciting, interesting and engaging so that children are curious and want to learn. We want children to come home from school excited about what they are learning about.
We also want our curriculum to be about raising standards. Our curriculum is now skills based, with a focus on improving key subject skills. This is so that children gain the subject knowledge, skills and understanding appropriate to their stage of development.
We do this by following three simple principles. The What, Why and How of curriculum planning:
- What: National Curriculum Programmes of Study. This ensures the curriculum is broad and meets statutory requirements.
- Why: So that children learn and get better at using key subject skills.
- How: We plan exciting contexts for learning that ‘hook’ and engage learners so that they want to learn more. We aim to make learning real and relevant to the lives of our children.
Our Curriculum Team is now exploring ways of helping children to understand what skills children need to become confident and successful learners and support children find out about how they learn best.
P. Ashton
Latest Developments:
Our curriculum now reflects the key proposals of the new draft curriculum and also includes key drivers such as community cohesion, enterprise, spiritual, moral, social and cultural.