"An OUTSTANDING school where confident, enthusiastic and mature pupils learn exceptionally well…"
Curriculum Statement
Intent
At Broadhempston Primary School, our intent is for pupils to achieve the highest possible progress and outcomes within each subject through the provision of a curriculum that is broad, balanced and rich in experiential learning. We have developed a 2/3 year rolling curriculum based on the National Curriculum, the EYFS curriculum, Devon and Torbay RE syllabus, PSHE/SRE curriculum and our Five Core Offer.
We provide an education enriched by our core values; community, creativity, courage, kindness, respect and trust. Through our curriculum design, our learners are given opportunities to become independent, collaborative, creative learners who have the confidence to seek answers and nurture a love of learning.
Our curriculum is aspirational and enriched by a wide range of opportunities, living out our Trust vision of ‘Small Schools, Big Opportunities’. To achieve this, we have organised our curriculum in a logical and sequential manner.
Our aims are:
A Five Star Core Offer
During their time in our school, children will be offered the opportunity to:
Create an outdoor fire and cook something on it
Meet an inspirational person
Have the opportunity to take part and compete in a sporting event
Have the opportunity to perform in front of an audience
See our forest school in every season.
We believe that a broad, balanced, creative curriculum will enable children to flourish. With this in mind we have implemented a programme of enriching activities, visits and memorable experiences which underpin our five star core offer
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Experience events linked to the local community: Harvest, Christmas Nativity, Carol Concert, Easter Celebration, Summer performance and our Leavers Assembly. |
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Additional curriculum weeks/days Science Week Activities Week |
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Sport: Throughout their time at Broadhempston our children will have the opportunity to take part in many sports, whether that is in P.E or as part of our extra curricular offering. Some of these sports are: cyclo cross, cross-country, tag rugby, handball, basketball, athletics, cricket, hockey, paddle boarding, kayaking and snow boarding. |
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Music Wider opportunities: our children will have regular opportunities in music. These may come from lessons with their peers, individual peripatetic lessons (guitar and singing), after school choir club or rehearsals and preparation for our Carol Concert, Christmas Performance and Summer Performance. |
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Class assemblies Parents are invited to attend one class assembly per year as well as an Open Afternoon, where they can look around the school and talk to the children about their learning. The whole school will also invite parents/stakeholders to our yearly Celebration of Music; an assembly where the children perform. |
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Individual class enrichment opportunities |
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Class 1 EFS and Year 1 |
Class 2 Years 2&3 |
Class 3 & 4 Years 4, 5 & 6 |
Farm visit
Visit a museum
Attend Forest School
Visit a building site
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Forest School sessions
Local trips related to topics being taught e.g. local fire station
Visit a zoo
Attended Activities Week
Experience an adventurous activity
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Cook food and prepare drinks on an open fire
Experience a museum trip
Plant a tree in the local community
Attend a residential on Dartmoor offering a number of challenging experiences
Plan and run an enterprise project~ including designing, making & sales- money raised for a charity of the children’s choice
Experience an adventurous activity
Make chocolate in a food preparation kitchen
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Together with, and underpinning our core offer, we ensure that our curriculum has its roots in basic skills. Our teaching of reading is well established and we have systems in place for ensuring that children secure basic skills at the earliest point possible. We teach writing through the Talk for Writing approach and use Phonics Play (Letters and Sounds) and No-nonsense Grammar and Spelling Shed to support skills children need to acquire. Alongside this staff ‘forensically’ analyse children’s written work to enable focussed targets, which result in accelerated progress.
Our maths teaching is through a mastery approach. The children are exposed to discussions, vocabulary and CAPED (check it, another way (show), prove it, explain, draw your learning). This ensures children’s understanding of new concepts is both secure and challenged.
The core curriculum at Broadhempston is of a high standard and supports our creativity. It focuses on the necessary priorities for ensuring that all pupils make excellent progress in reading, writing and maths. It allows for progress within all groups of children across the school and results in high standards.
Our Early Years curriculum is designed with the characteristics of effective learning and development matters at its core. Beyond EYFS the curriculum ensures coverage of the statutory requirements of the National Curriculum. The school’s curriculum builds on pupils’ prior learning and develops deep understanding of the material covered, introduces subject content progressively and constantly demands more of pupils embedding reading, writing and communication, and maths where appropriate, across all subjects. We aim to develop pupils who love the challenge of learning, are resilient to failure and are curious to seek out new information to deepen knowledge, understanding and skills.
The curriculum was designed with consideration of our staff and their varying experiences and skills, our children’s passions and interests and the passions of our families who often share their expertise with us. It was built with the local surroundings in mind; which are vast and interesting.
Our two-year/three year programme, created in 2019/2020, was supported by the responses from questionnaires for staff and children and discussion with our stakeholders. We are ambitious and want to create successful and enjoyable topics that allow for a broad and balanced approach.
The following are the long-term rolling programmes for the classes at Broadhempston Village Primary School.
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Completed by all teachers and involves ensuring coverage of both the national curriculum objectives and the key skills that we want the children to develop. These detail the starting points for all topics, show how it will develop and outline any significant outcomes. These documents use the format below, are entirely for the use of teaching staff, and become a starting point for short-term plans.
Class
Theme:
Length of time:
Big question:
Hook /enrichment:
Desired outcome:
Key learning Outcome for theme
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Maths links |
Key vocabulary |
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National curriculum objectives
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National curriculum key skills
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Elicitation Task: linked to big question |
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Other subjects not linked to this topic |
National curriculum key skills
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Maths links |
Key vocabulary
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Other events/weeks: |
Parents are kept well informed about what their children will be learning each term. Learning maps are created to share our intentions. These are available on our website or in paper form.
We strive for the impact of our curriculum to be…
Excellent standards
Exceptional behaviour and attitudes
Personal Development