Grateley Curriculum
The Grateley curriculum has been designed and organised to provide and support the very best outcomes for our children. The curriculum covers all aspects of the learning children experience at Grateley Primary. We ensure there are opportunities for hands-on experiential learning, a balance of academic as well as non-academic, well-being and life skills. The Grateley curriculum is built upon meaningful cross curricular links to a connected curriculum which supports and inspires our pupils. It has been developed to support the children’s substantive and disciplinary knowledge for Modern Day Britain.
The Primary curriculum should be structured around regular practice, regular opportunities to revisit and secure early knowledge and skills which are fundamental to success.
The Grateley curriculum is built around 4 key aspects;
- Statutory Guidance
- School Values
- School Community
- Grateley Essential Knowledge
The Statutory Guidance is a shared language between schools. It is also a starting point for what you will include in your curriculum.
The Grateley curriculum has been developed with the school Values in mind.
Through the development of the curriculum, the school community and cohorts are rooted in the reason why we teach what we teach. An example of this is in PSHE; we teach children about railway safety because some of the children live close to a railway line. We incorporate WW2 in our Year 5 and 6 History learning because nearly 50% of our families are military families. We teach French across school from Year R- 6 and this is taught by one of our teachers who is a fluent speaker of French so the children have a rich French curriculum and this enables the children to be ready for the next phase in their education. We are developing a sustainability curriculum with stakeholders because we know how important it is for the children to understand about climate change and how we can support sustainability as a school/community/family.
Grateley Essential Knowledge is the knowledge we consider essential for children at Grateley to learn. We want children at Grateley to know more, do more and remember more.