Curriculum Overview

Curriculum Intent

We teach a knowledge rich curriculum through an understanding of diversity and inclusion.

We support and challenge our learners to achieve their very best by working in partnership.  We do this building on prior knowledge and encouraging participation in school and community life. We develop a love of learning via a creative approach that is relevant to ensure our children have transferable, lifelong learning skills. 

Through carefully chosen partnerships, with leading curriculum specialists including Unity School Partnership (CUSP) and Read Write Inc, we ensure our curriculum meets the needs of our school community.

Curriculum Pillars

Our curriculum pillars are a promise to our community to ensure that we are aspirational for all our learners. We strive to be diverse and inclusive as our community is at the heart of everything that we do. We want to bring learning to life with creative and enriching experiences. Finally, we build everything on a foundation of nurture to ensure that everybody feels supported to achieve their best. Each curriculum pillar is represented by a different part of the inukshuk. See below for more information about each pillar.

CUSP (Curriculum with Unity Schools Partnership)

CUSP is unapologetically ambitious and brings the most effective research and evidence-led practice to the attention of school improvement through excellence in curriculum structure, cumulative and coherent resources to support teacher subject knowledge, teacher pedagogy, learning tasks, assessment and feedback.

At the absolute heart of the full CUSP offer is a central belief that all pupils should have the opportunity to develop competence and confidence in reading. The golden thread of vocabulary is explicitly and systematically instructed across the offer; disciplinary literacy is carefully planned and observed; rich and demanding texts sit at the centre of instruction in all subject disciplines. 

CUSP curriculum structure is fundamentally built to support the principles of Cognitive Load Theory, Explicit Vocabulary Instruction, Spaced Retrieval practice and Interleaving. This was not an afterthought or an attempt to squeeze evidence-led practice into an existing curriculum design: it was deliberate and executed with intent.

An essential component to CUSP lessons is the systematic and coherent approach that we embed focusing on the six phases of a lesson.

Excellent subject knowledge, connections with prior learning, consistency in explanations with worked examples, deliberate practice with hard thinking tasks, and integration of new learning creates long-term memory and coherent schemata creation.