Our Curriculum
Our vision
Creative learning, personal achievement and happiness.
"Enabling everyone to flourish and 'live life in all its fullness' John 10:10
Our school community, based on Christ's teaching, seeks to develop, in each child, a vision of human flourishing, built on wonder, kindness, gentleness, excellence and academic rigour, explored through moral and creative learning experiences.
Throughout school, we explore and develop as a person by experiencing a rich and broad education including PSHE, SMSC and Spiritual Development which our children know as "ME flourishing, My Spiritual Capabilities".
Our curriculum is inclusive and supportive, allowing all children to access the knowledge, vocabulary and skills required, regardless of their prior learning, personal experiences or cultural capital. Our curriculum has high expectations for all pupils to progress, be challenged and achieve at age-related expectations and greater depth. Equally importantly, our curriculum is interesting and fun - so our children tell us!
Knowing our pupils like family, we are aware of the differences in needs and cultural capital and therefore plan with this is mind, including a precise vocabulary element to our curriculum and experiential learning, visits and visitors.
Each year group has its own Long Term Curriculum Map that evolves and adapted to suit each cohort, for each of the key phases in education, and is enriched with visits, visitors and other experiential learning opportunities that enhance cultural capital:
Our Curriculum Overview
We have created a curriculum that is knowledge-rich and vocabulary-rich for all subject areas so that it captivates our children's interests and utilises our beautiful locality. We utilise our extensive school site and abundant facilities and resources by learning outside and experiencing real life situations.
A key focus of our curriculum is to prepare children for the next stages of their education and their future lives by developing the whole child to become a confident, respectful individual who has a positive and aspirational attitude to life. Children develop personally to know who they are; why they are here; what they might want to become; and how they can make a difference in this world. We do this through continuously revisiting and planning with our vision in mind: creative learning, personal achievement and happiness, as well as our Christian Values and Virtues and our British Values.
We educate the whole child: for learning and as a person through our bespoke character education which is rich in experiences and challenges - the wows and the ows! and the awes and ohs! This is especially true on our residential visits and in our forest school learning.
Our Curriculum Maps are rolling programmes which ensure that all of the National Curriculum 2014 is taught through explicit subjects or the topics and themes described (in EYFS). To support this we have clear written Schemes of Work showing progress in substantive and disciplinary knowledge and skills for each phase of school to ensure that appropriate learning objectives are taught and that learning is progressive and challenging.
We use Read, Write, Inc. to support the teaching of phonics and reading in school. For further information, please click here.
Please use the links on this webpage to find out more details about the curriculum we teach or contact one of our teachers who will be happy to discuss this further:
Early Years Foundation Stage Statutory Framework 2021 (ages 0-5 years)
National Curriculum 2014 (ages 5-11 years)
Children with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities
We pride ourselves on being an inclusive school that continues to successfully support pupils with a range of special education and disability needs, as well as reintegrated pupils into mainstream education from other establishments. We have a wealth of training and experience and a passion to live out our vision and mission statement.
More information available here.
CUSP Lead School
We are very proud to be a CUSP Lead School. We have worked with Alex Bedford for several years and have continuously evolved and developed our educational ethos, teaching, curriculum and practices along with his and CUSP’s developments. Alex Bedford and Lauren Meadows (Greenfields) have recently visited Shankhill to deliver whole school training on reading and the wider curriculum. This has strengthened our pedagogy, confidence and knowledge even more. As an early adopter, and being a small school with mixed-age classes, we have trialled and shared feedback on new developments within CUSP over the last few years including mixed-age planning and tracking, Early Foundations and Digital Thinking Hard task. As a lead school, we provide advice and support for other schools, locally and nationally, who are adopting or developing their use of CUSP.
Curriculum StatementPlease use the following links to find out more details about the curriculum we teach or contact one of our teachers who will be happy to discuss this further:
- Maths at home with parents
- Class 1 Curriculum
- Class 2 Curriculum
- Class 3 Curriculum
Children with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities
We pride ourselves on being an inclusive school that continues to successfully support pupils with a range of special education and disability needs, as well as reintegrated pupils into mainstream education from other establishments. We have a wealth of training and experience and a passion to live out our vision and mission statement.
More information available here.