Saint Patrick’s Catholic Primary School

'We arise today, to learn, love and grow through Jesus.’

At Saint Patrick’s we aim to create an environment in which each individual has the opportunity to thrive supported by values of Christ firmly built into our everyday foundations. Education, welfare and wellbeing are at the heart of everything we do. Above all else, we want to foster a strong belief in all our children that they can succeed in all they do, no matter what. Working with all school parties, we wish to nurture each child’s potential and foster high aspirations. It is essential that we give them the tool kit needed to achieve their goals regardless of background or starting points.

The outline of knowledge, skills and understanding that schools are required to cover is provided by The Statutory Framework for the Early Years Foundation Stage and The National Curriculum. At St Patrick’s Catholic Primary School, although our curriculum is designed to meet all the requirements of the Statutory Framework for EYFS and the National Curriculum, we are proud to offer a much wider and richer curriculum, making the most of the many and varied opportunities to both broaden and enrich the learning opportunities for all our children. The breadth of the curriculum at St Patrick’s ensures that all subjects are valued.

We provide a curriculum which is relevant to our children so that they can develop an understanding of themselves, the people around them, where they live, the local area and their place within the wider world. From whatever their starting points are, our curriculum prepares pupils to build on each stage of their educational journey. During their time at St Patrick's, we believe each child should be afforded a rich curriculum with many meaningful, engaging learning experiences.

St Patrick’s provides a highly inclusive environment. Pupils at all levels are helped to achieve their learning goals. All of our children are challenged and encouraged to develop their skills and knowledge through rich and varied curriculum opportunities. Those who need more support with their learning are given support to embed skills, to develop at their own pace and to learn in a style that best suits their individual needs.

Pupils will be taught by teachers and teaching assistants with high expectations, who will plan and deliver a curriculum that is stimulating, pertinent, extends pupils’ understanding of all of the subject areas and ensures high quality learning and outcomes.

Leaders at all levels play an important part in the success of our curriculum by undertaking a regular programme of monitoring, evaluation and review. As a school we are continually evaluating the curriculum to ensure that it is tailored to meet the needs of individuals, groups, and cohorts.

Children leave St Patrick’s equipped with the values, skills, knowledge, attitudes and experiences that form our curriculum, enabling them to succeed in life.

Intent 

At Saint Patrick’s Catholic Primary School:

• We teach to meet all the requirements set out in the Statutory Framework for EYFS and the National Curriculum, to all our pupils, including the most disadvantaged pupils, the ablest pupils and pupils with SEND.
• We deliver a curriculum that has been reflectively designed and deeply thought out and that reflects our local context by addressing typical gaps in pupils’ knowledge and skills.
• We meet the learning needs of all children.
• Our curriculum is ambitious, cohesive and sequenced, building upon prior knowledge, understanding and skills.
• Our curriculum ensures all subjects are valued
• We provide a variety of wide-ranging opportunities, visitors and experiences to develop transferrable skills both within the curriculum and beyond

Implementation 

We do this by:

• Creating an environment that focuses on pupils.
• Ensuring that work given to pupils, over time and across the school, consistently matches the aims of the curriculum and is sequenced towards cumulatively sufficient knowledge and skills for future learning and employment.
• Ensuring that quality first teaching is an entitlement of all learners.
• Taking pride in providing a highly inclusive environment and pupils at all levels are helped to achieve their potential.
• Organising the wider curriculum into discrete subjects to ensure that children can be immersed in the subject specific vocabulary, knowledge, skills and understanding.
• Timetabling whole school focused days and weeks to enrich our children’s curricular experiences and put an emphasis on individual subjects.
• Providing the children with ongoing assessment and feedback.
• Supporting pupils to embed key concepts in their long-term memory and apply them fluently.
• Planning in enrichment opportunities to allow learning from direct first-hand experiences.

Impact

• Pupils will feel successful and love learning. They will be aspirational in life, looking to their future and where and what they want to be.
• Pupils will be creative thinkers and collaborative learners. They will connect their experiences to those of others in school and around the world.
• Pupils are ready and prepared for their next stage in education.
• Pupils are ready and prepared for their next stage in education.
• All our pupils, including the most disadvantaged pupils, the most able pupils and pupils with SEND, acquire the knowledge and cultural capital they need to succeed in life.
• Pupils work across the curriculum is consistently of a high quality.
• Pupils read widely and often.
• Good results as a reflection of what pupils have learned.
• All subject leaders relate the standards in their subject to standards in reading, writing and mathematics.

KS1 & KS2 Curriculum Overview 22/23

For EYFS Curriuclum please click the link below