High View Primary Learning Centre Curriculum Philosophy
Senior Leader Overseeing the Curriculum offer - Mrs. N. Simpson. Our vision is to build a school where openness, honesty, fairness and empathy, together with the development of best practice, ensure all children within our schools receive a first class education. Children are at the heart of all we do. We will provide EVERY CHILD with early help and support to remove barriers to learning and an education that raises aspiration resulting in excellence and enjoyment whilst ensuring that the social, emotional and mental health needs of the whole school community are being met. This will enable all children to fulfil their potential and maximise their life chances. Our curriculum is based around the needs of our pupils to reduce the barriers preventing some children achieving age related standards which are:
External circumstances impacting on children’s lives in school
The ability to read precisely and fluently at an early stage
Limited language acquisition including the understanding of subject specific vocabulary
Our aim is to equip children with an understanding of the wider world so that they engage effectively in modern society, moving forward with resilience, tenacity and confidence as independent thinkers who strive to become the very best they can be. We will aim to achieve this by:
Providing experts to work with children and their families to reduce the impact of home circumstances on children’s ability to learn
Prioritising the skills of reading and mathematics in the Trust’s curriculum offer to ensure that children are able to transfer and apply skills and knowledge in an inter-disciplinary approach and therefore enabling children to keep up not catch up
Ensuring that children understand and remember associated curriculum vocabulary within a rich, broad and balanced curriculum offer and are able to use this vocabulary with fluency and confidence
What makes our curriculum unique? We believe that every child deserves the same opportunities as all other children in the world, through the skills, knowledge and experiences necessary for them to develop into the best they can be. We endeavour to ensure that when the children go onto their next stage of life, they are equipped with the skills, responsibility and understanding of their community and the wider world to be able to engage and contribute effectively. We aim that our children develop skills to understand conflicts and resolutions through respect and enhancing aspirations through knowledge of the world and what it has to offer. This is provided by creating a curriculum that is exciting, stimulating connected learning in which the children become fully absorbed using a cross-curricular approach. We strive to encompass as many curriculum subjects into each topic, making them relevant and meaningful for our children, and which are steered and designed by the interests and questions of the pupils. We believe that if the questions are asked by the pupils then the engagement to answer those gives ownership and accountability to the quality of the answer, ensuring our pupils are resilient, inquisitive and passionate about learning, which is lifelong.
Aims of the Curriculum at High View
The curriculum will be used to increase pupils’ knowledge, skills and understanding as they grow and develop and increase their contact with the world around them.
To promote with pupils the awareness and understanding of our multicultural society and the ever changing world in which they live.
The curriculum will be carefully planned and structured to ensure that learning is continuous and supports all pupils’ progress to reach their true potential.
Children will be given opportunities to practise, apply, develop and reinforce skills and knowledge through varied strategies which meet their learning needs.
The curriculum will engage the children’s interest, encourage and motivate them to want to learn both collaboratively and independently.
To be exciting and offer pupils lots of first-hand experience to reinforce their learning and to underpin their growing knowledge, skills and understanding.
To open their ears through the language development and their eyes to the wonders of the world around them through experience.
To give them skills to cope in the fast changing, technological society in which they live.
To work in line with ECM to ensure individual needs are recognised and acted upon.
To develop resilience when tackling challenging activities in a range of subjects.
If you would like to get in touch to discuss any areas of the curriculum, you can contact Mrs. Simpson on 01226273220 or email [email protected]
Curriculum Subjects
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