Our Curriculum

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 Our school follows the national curriculum (2014). This sets out what pupils should be taught but it is for schools to choose how they organise their school curriculum. (Academies and free schools do not need to follow the National Curriculum.)

Here at St. Paul’s CE Primary School, our vision is that every child, regardless of their starting point, is successful in their own unique way. To support this, we developed our STAR curriculum.

SUCCESS

THE WORLD

ASPIRATION

RESILIENCE

These four concepts are the key drivers behind our whole school curriculum and are woven into the intent of each subject we teach within our half-termly themes.

By encouraging children’s aspirations and celebrating success, we aim to inspire our learners to be limitless and to persevere in order to achieve to the best of their ability in preparation for the next stage of their education. We also endeavour to exemplify the importance of developing resilience to all of our children. We want them to be self-motivated problem-solvers who are ready to face any challenge with a pragmatic, healthy mind. We are proud to be part of our city by the sea, however we also want children to be open-minded to the wider world and appreciate the amazing diversity of each other and our neighbours, locally, nationally and globally.

To enrich the personal development of our pupils even further, we also partake in class and whole school breakout sessions. These are focused around significant events and celebrations, such as Black History Month and International Women’s Day. These are additional to the national curriculum and are covered in order to raise awareness of some of the issues that our children face as global citizens of tomorrow.

Although we adopt a thematic approach to our teaching and learning (meaning that wherever possible, we group our subjects around a theme), some content of the national curriculum is taught discretely, such as maths.

As a Church of England school, we continue to underpin everything we do with our Christian values of love, respect, courage and forgiveness in line with the teachings of Jesus.

Please contact Mrs Quinn-Briton, Headteacher, if you have any questions regarding our curriculum.

 

 

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