Curriculum
Welcome to our curriculum...
The heart of our school.
'I came to give life, life in all its fullness' (John 10:10)
A curriculum for excellence and irresistible learning that sticks.
Curriculum Statement
At Eye we are passionate about preparing our children by equipping them with life-long, transferable skills and knowledge for an undetermined future. We aim to take our children beyond expectation, offering an inclusive curriculum, which provides a range of opportunities to participate and excel within and beyond the school day, and live life in all its fullness; in the fullness of God.
Eye’s curriculum encourages pupils to flourish in their learning and to use knowledge wisely. The curriculum is ambitious as it wants every child to experience the fullness of life. It offers rich learning opportunities that grows young people spirituality. As a result, pupils are critical thinkers, curious, and able to reflect.
SIAMS Report, 2024
Through expert direction and teaching, we endeavour to enable them to experience inspirational learning opportunities, which allow them to be challenged and stimulated at all levels and build skills and knowledge for life.
The progress of every child is carefully and regularly monitored to ensure that teachers are aware of, and plan for, the needs of each individual child.
Our definition of The Curriculum is all the activities that we plan, organise and deliver in order to facilitate the development of our pupils, their learning, their personal growth and an understanding of British values. Whilst our curriculum includes the formal requirements of the National Curriculum, it also aims to provide a range of experiences to enhance and enrich learning and development of all.
We want our children to embrace our vision and values in order to create responsible and respectful citizens of the future.
All children have a right to a broad, balanced and relevant education, which provides excitement, challenge, continuity and progression and considers individual differences. In Eye School, we aim to provide a curriculum that is appropriate to the needs and abilities of all our children. We plan our teaching and learning and organise our curriculum in such a way that we motivate every child to reach for the highest level of personal achievement.
Our aim is to do this through a curriculum which:
- Establishes a mutually supportive partnership in which parents, carers, governors and staff share responsibility for the education of our children;
- Puts reading and vocabulary at the heart;
- Ensures that knowledge is cumulative year on year;
- Promotes tolerance, honesty and respect for a diversity of cultures, values, beliefs and abilities through our strong Christian values;
- Creates a caring community of learners where every child feels safe and valued;
- Ensures that all children have appropriate and equal access to the curriculum;
- Instils a love of learning through rich and varied experiences which will continue throughout life;
- Develops enquiring minds;
- Builds skill progression across all subject areas and children respect each subject in its own right;
- Encourages the confidence and desire to assess and take appropriate risks.
Curriculum Excellence and Irresistible Learning
Eye CE Primary School strives to be a centre for excellence in all areas of the curriculum with the school at the heart of the local community.
This is a community contract; these circles of support, trust and mutual accountability are underpinned by the core Christian values and GROW standards upheld by pupil, teacher (school), parent and church.
Our curriculum is connected between the teaching, learning and opportunity for transferable knowledge, skills, experience and vocabulary that enable each of our pupils to flourish. We are, as a collective, responsible for ensuring that we uphold these values and teach them through the four domains of our curriculum for excellence. The British Values are also integrated within the teaching of our Christian values and GROW standards. Our four GROW standards are underpinned by our seven Christian values. These standards and values underpin every aspect of our learning community.
At each stage of learning, the pedagogical approaches used to support the learning journey are approaches underpinned by cognitive science and Rosenshine’s Principles of effective instruction.
We invite you to learn more about our different curriculum areas by navigating the tabs in the curriculum menu. These predominantly focus on KS1 and KS2.
Of course, the subjects start much earlier than this! Please do have a look at the preschool and EYFS curriculum tabs and documents below to learn more. For instance, science, history and geography will fall under the area of learning we call 'investigate'. Here, children secure a foundational understanding before then being ready to access the national curriculum in year 1.
The National Curriculum Programme of Study for each subject from Year 1-Year 6 can be accessed here:
National curriculum in England: primary curriculum - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
Our Teaching and Learning Model
More information can be found in the T&L attachment below.
Pupils love coming to school and value the opportunities and the quality of education that the curriculum has to offer. Ofsted, 2021