Our Curriculum

Curriculum Background

At St Catharine’s CE Primary School, we provide a rich, broad, balanced and knowledge rich curriculum to ensure that all individuals succeed. We provide an enriching and exciting curriculum that offers challenge to all pupils. We recognise that all our pupils have a different knowledge base and skill set as well as varying abilities and aspirations. Our school curriculum provides for academic achievement but places the role of developing spiritual, moral, cultural and social development at the heart of all we do with the ultimate aim of ensuring all pupils leave St. Catharine’s with the confidence and skills to become successful and independent lifelong learners who can make a positive contribution to our diverse society. We have developed a curriculum built on current research regarding how memory works to ensure that children not only have access to key knowledge but are taught this in a way that ensures children can remember the curriculum content in future years.
The key aims and objectives of our curriculum development are:

– To create a curriculum which focuses on the knowledge and understanding of our pupils and their needs in order that all children achieve their full potential.

– To develop teaching approaches that will help children to acquire a depth of knowledge, a progression of skills and enhance vocabulary across all subject areas.

– To enhance pupil experiences and give opportunities that pupils may not have access to outside of school.

– To promote long-term learning and we believe that progress means knowing more and remembering more. As pupils learn the content of the curriculum, they are making progress.

– To enthuse and engage learners through exciting events, visits and visitors to support their knowledge.

– To create a coherent and effective assessment tool which allows us to assess both the current level of children and also track progress over time.

– To give subject leaders ownership of their subject area by giving them time to analyse content, teaching strategies, subject knowledge, skills progression, assessment and depth of learning.

Year Group Information