Our Curriculum Vision
We strive to become collaborative lifelong learners through an enriching, creative and challenging curriculum
Our curriculum is underpinned by our values, which are encompassed into daily learning at John Scurr, they are qualities which we believe will sustain children throughout their lives, so that they can aim to ‘be the best that they can be’.
Our school values are: RESPECT, RESILIENCE, RESOURCEFULNESS, READINESS and REFLECTION
The aim of our school curriculum is to provide children with a rich, relevant and inclusive education.
- We engage our children with an exciting and progressive curriculum, in which they will master transferable skills and knowledge.
- We enable children to think critically and give them the ability to learn at a deeper level.
- We motivate our children to see learning as a personal journey to experience enjoyment and fulfilment.
- We inspire and motivate children to grow into future citizens who are confident to embrace the challenges and opportunities of the modern world.
- We encourage our children to respect and celebrate their own cultures and the other cultures present in our diverse multicultural community.
Curriculum Drivers
Our children’s backgrounds; our culture and our climate for learning provide the following drivers that underpin our curriculum and provide a broad range of experiences:
- Possibilities – Help pupils build aspirations and know available possibilities for their future lives through improving their skills, knowledge and ambition.
- Resilience – Helps instill in our children a mindset that they can continue to grow in all areas of their lives.
- Communication – Helps children to be confident to articulate their thoughts, ideas, opinion and participation in lessons through developing communication and self-regulation.
Our Curriculum Implementation
Our curriculum incorporates the statutory requirements of the National Curriculum and other experiences and opportunities which best meet the learning and developmental needs of the children in our school. The curriculum is balanced and provides children with a mix of both academic and personal development.
Spiritual, moral, social and cultural (SMSC) development
Spiritual, moral, social and cultural (SMSC) development is paramount and it is sometimes taught discretely and sometimes taught through other subjects.
We are very proud here at John Scurr to have been awarded a Primary Quality Mark award for our SMSC provision.
A Thematic Approach
We plan learning in a thematic approach with quality texts to inspire discussion, support the development of reading and provide writing opportunities within each theme. Furthermore, the curriculum provides children with memorable experiences and rich and diverse opportunities from which children can learn and develop a range of transferable skills. The methods and strategies used to teach these skills are left to the discretion of the year group to ensure that learning and teaching remains fresh, focused and inspiring.
A blocked curriculum approach has been implemented at the school to ensure coverage and progression in a number of curriculum areas. This flexible delivery of the wider curriculum means that in some weeks there may be a focus on History and not teaching of other subjects whereas in other weeks there may be more balance across the subjects. Organising the learning in this way ensures teachers have the flexibility to deliver the curriculum in the way that they feel has the most impact. This approach also fosters each child’s curiosity and interest throughout each topic and also enables the achievement of depth in knowledge and skills.
