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The Curriculum at Longcot and Fernham CE Primary School

At Longcot and Fernham CE Primary School, we want our pupils to love learning, be excited, passionate and challenged by our deep, rich curriculum and prepared for the next stage of learning.

 

Curriculum Intent

At Longcot and Fernham Primary School, we believe the curriculum is vital in ensuring that all children develop a love of learning and are equipped with the necessary tools to become the very best versions of themselves. At the core of our curriculum, is a commitment to empathy, diversity and inclusion. Our vision is to help children see themselves as valuable global citizens, who hold a strong sense of belonging within their school, their local community and the world. We also want to guide children in recognising their responsibility as part of the broader Christian community; reflecting our Christian values of love, honesty and respect.

 

Children are at the heart of Longcot and Fernham CE Primary School and we strive to ensure that all children feel safe, secure and truly valued as individuals. We provide a curriculum which enables every child to have access to high quality personalised learning opportunities.

In formulating our Curriculum we took into account our key learning priorities:

  • Engaging learners by ensuring links are made across core concepts so that prior knowledge is carefully built upon.
  • Ensuring there is clear and direct teaching of vocabulary to develop an inclusive and challenging learning environment in which all children can communicate ideas about their learning.
  • Allowing time for children to see examples through carefully planned teacher modelling sections of lessons; ensuring there is clear and precise instruction, so all children know the expectations.
  • Ensuring children have ample opportunity to develop their learning collaboratively with their teacher and peers during shared learning time so that the ability to ask discerning questions, reflect on misconceptions and develop a range of strategies to their leaning can be developed.
  • Giving children time to independently apply new skills so that they can show their creative application of new knowledge and develop other necessary skills needed to be a successful learner for life. Skills such as, resilience, curiosity and the ability to ask questions like-  What if? or, I wonder why?- to deepen understanding.
  • Making challenge a key aspect of all learning experiences for all children so that the curriculum is ambitious and allows all children to make progress and feel successful as learners.

 

 

We aim for children to have an appreciation of the differing communities and cultures from which they come and to instil respect and tolerance of the differences between us. In all aspects of the curriculum, we promote spiritual, moral, social and cultural development to enable children to work together and co-operate regardless of gender, culture or ethnicity. We continually strive for our children to value the rights enjoyed by every person in society.

 

With opportunities to explore, revisit and deepen understanding of concepts, we believe children will become confident and resilient lifelong learners. Our aim being to nurture children, who remain curious about the world, take risks and make links between the knowledge and themes they encounter; seeing learning as a never-ending and exciting journey.

 

 

 

For further information about the curriculum please visit the class pages where our termly Curriculum Newsletters and Yearly Overviews are displayed. 

 

Long term Plans

Here you will find the long term planning document for each year of the three year rolling cycle. They should be read in conjunction with the curriculum statements and progression documents, which can be found under each curriculum subject tab above. 

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