Curriculum Information – Eastington Primary School

What is a curriculum?

The curriculum is a framework for setting out the aims of a programme of education, including the knowledge, skills and understanding to be gained at each stage (INTENT); for translating that framework over time into a structure and narrative, within an institutional context (IMPLEMENTATION) and for evaluating what knowledge, skills and understanding pupils have gained against expectations (IMPACT).

Ofsted 2018

Eastington School’s Curriculum

Intent

Our thoughtfully crafted curriculum is built upon a progression of knowledge, skills and understanding from Class 1 to Class 5 – it is planned to be sequential over time. Our school’s curriculum is reviewed, refined and adapted (by class teachers and subject leaders) to ensure that the curriculum meets the diverse needs of all of our children.

Our curriculum is underpinned by our core values of ‘Aiming high together to be: kind, cooperative, resilient, responsible and ambitious’ where striving to be the best we can be underpins all we do. Our curriculum is intended to develop a rich body of knowledge, skills and understanding for each child, providing them with the opportunity to master key concepts, creating aspiring geographers, historians, musicians, authors and scientists etc of the future.

Implementation

Our curriculum is delivered through key stage topics. Whilst subjects are taught discretely, meaningful links are made in order for children to have a purposeful context for their learning.

All learning is carefully planned so that progressive knowledge, skills and understanding is a key component. Our own progression maps (see below) are used for all subjects (other than reading, writing and maths) to support this progression.

As a school, we have developed our own progression maps for each subject to meet the needs of the children within our school structure. Regular opportunities to revisit key learning objectives are planned and lessons are subsequently developed to ensure that children’s working memory is not overloaded, therefore knowledge is deepened as a result.

Impact
Children will be assessed in line with the school’s current assessment system – 3 times a year.

This, along with a range of other information (pupil conferencing, book scrutiny, observations etc) will support subject leaders in gathering information on the impact of the our newly developed and implemented curriculum.

The impact will be monitored and reviewed by subject leaders and the school leadership team to ensure the intent and implementation of the curriculum is reflected in the day to day teachings at Eastington, children are enjoying learning and are achieving well. It will be adapted and altered when needed to ensure it works for our children.

Please click on the subject below to find out more about what skills are taught in these subjects at Eastington.

Art skills progression Key Stage 2 Art skills progression Key Stage 1

DT skills progression Key Stage 1 DT skills progression Key Stage 2

“I’m determined to improve my reading” by Sophie. English