“Leaders have worked together with determination to develop a carefully thought-through curriculum which builds logically from Nursery to Year 6."

"Pupils attain well throughout the school."

Ofsted 2023

Intent

At Turners Hill CofE Primary School we aim high. We want every part of our school community- pupils, parents/carers and members of staff to experience success. Our motto is ‘Stewards of the Earth, Eager to Learn, Faithful to God’, demonstrating our focus on utilising the environment and learning about sustainability, our love of learning and celebrates our proud status as a Church of England primary school.

We ensure that every child has access to a broad, balanced and supportive curriculum. Through this we are able to give our pupils a range of opportunities and experiences to grow and develop academically, physically, socially and morally.

Implementation

All National Curriculum subjects are carefully planned, structured and sequenced to ensure progression across units of work and across year groups or key stages. It is structured to help pupils remember long term the content that they have been taught and pupils are encouraged to integrate this new knowledge into larger areas. Subject leaders carefully plan and sequence the knowledge and skills that our pupils will need in order to ensure that they develop confidence; growing and developing academically, physically, socially and morally.

We aim to tailor our curriculum to fulfil every child’s potential, taking into account (and adapting our curriculum) to incorporate key events. Through a curriculum that is both stimulating and challenging, we develop curiosity about the world around them and enable children to grow and develop; becoming independent, active learners.

Throughout all areas of the curriculum, reading is prioritised. Children are given access to a range of age appropriate texts.

There is a sharp focus on phonics for our younger pupils and a programme of support is in place for any children who may need additional help, these may be SEND or EAL.

A range of additional experiences such as educational visits and visitors to school, ensure that both enjoyment and learning are enhanced.

Cross Curricular Planning

Teaching and learning takes place through a range of exciting topics, which encourage an enquiry-based approach. We ensure core academic subjects such as English, Maths and Science are given sufficient weighting. However, we are also proud of our provision for the arts, humanities, physical activity, technology and languages.

We plan and tailor our curriculum to make the most out of relevant cross curricular links.

Impact

Children’s progress is carefully monitored through appropriate assessment and, where children are found to need additional support, we have a variety of interventions to help them.

Our staff at Turners Hill CofE Primary School work hard, and are incredibly proud of, our stimulating and progressive curriculum that meets the needs of all of our pupils.

Assessment of foundation subjects

Curriculum Intent for Assessment:

At Turners Hill, we want our assessments of foundation subjects to inform teachers that content is covered and knowledge is embedded. The assessments will be used to support children in understanding their learning and recalling the unit taught. 

How is this done?

Children will self-assess using a success criteria on the knowledge organisers using the same 3 tick approach as all other success criterias. (Majority substantive knowledge)

Teachers will plan an end of unit assessment/ opportunity for children to demonstrate embedded knowledge independently. For example, a debate on whether the Victorian age was good or bad, art – a final piece of work, music – performing and record their work, could be a verbal recording on tapestry through pupil voice (disciplinary knowledge)

Teachers will then use the pupils’ work to assess against the outcomes including the independent opportunity to analyse if children have deep knowledge of the unit taught.

A sample moderation will be completed termly to ensure consistency and ratify teacher judgements. 

In Early Years, foundation subjects are recorded in tapestry using pupil voice and observations.