Curriculum Intent

The Curriculum Intent at St Gregory's 

At St Gregory’s, the curriculum our children experience enables us to live out our Mission Slogan:

Loving all, like Jesus, we flourish together.

We aim to enable all our children to flourish, regardless of background or disposition by offering a rich and informed curriculum packed with opportunities for all our children to experience ‘life to the full’ (John 10:10).

Taking the National Curriculum as our basis, with the fundamental life skills of Reading, Writing and Maths at the heart, woven throughout our curriculum are opportunities for our children to develop The Seven Skills of the Steward – attributes and attitudes which we believe are essential so as to enable our children to thrive both today and in the world of the future:

Team-working   †   Problem-solving   †   Creativity   †   Peace-making

Empathy   †   Resilience   †   Gratitude

We believe that this powerful combination will enable our children to perform well at end points in their relevant stages of education (for example at the end of EYFS, Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2), as well as allowing them to enjoy successfully playing their part in helping to make our wonderful world an even better place and make ‘Thy Kingdom come’.

Our curriculum - monitored closely by our curriculum and subject area leaders - is sequenced so as to enable current learning to be founded upon prior development of relevant knowledge, skills and understanding. We have also built into our curriculum a multitude of ways to help make our children’s experiences meaningful, memorable and motivating, with children’s endeavours building towards purposeful end points. To help with this, in particular, we aim to apply our English and Maths skills across the curriculum so as to provide regular, relevant opportunities to demonstrate thorough understanding in a variety of contexts. Our Reading Policy is firmly focused on enabling all our children to develop their love of reading and their reading ability in age and stage-appropriate ways – an essential factor in ensuring success across the curriculum.

We aim to utilise our links within the community to provide the very best ‘linked-up’, relevant learning experiences for all our children, for example by working closely with our local parish and also with visits from local figures such as imams; councillors; police and the fire brigade. Informed by the voices of those across our school community, our curriculum has been designed to reflect the needs of the children at our particular school. Currently, we are especially focusing on:

• really cementing the core skills of Literacy, especially with our children for whom English is an additional language and for those in receipt of the Pupil Premium Funding
• further-enhancing our Pastoral Provision to respond to the present need within the community
• providing an even wider variety of life experiences which lead to good Cultural Capital by  further- increasing our extra-curricular activities, visits and visitors

Any gaps in the children’s understanding of our curriculum are addressed in a timely manner in a wide variety of ways. Amongst other things, these include: facilitating any necessary Educational Health Care Plans or access to Special Education Need Support; ensuring an effective strategy is in place for the use of Pupil Premium funding; making sure quality first teaching is in place consistently across the school; systematic targeting of specific children who may have ‘fallen behind’ with relevant interventions put in place; in-depth analysis of all pupil performance at termly pupil progress meetings; ensuring an open-minded culture amongst all staff is in evidence across the school so we are always willing to continuously improve our practice in order to get only the very best outcomes for the children in our care.

Our curriculum is reviewed frequently by a range of stakeholders, the results of which are then fed back into the educational experiences in which our children partake – all the while mindful of how we can best ensure all the children at St Gregory’s flourish continuously.

How to find out evern more about our curriculum ...

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