Our Curriculum

At Crackley Bank Primary School we aim to provide interesting, engaging and memorable learning experiences for all of our children.  After listening to the children, parents, staff and governors, we have developed the 'intent' for our curriculum.

Curriculum Intent

Contextual Need

In designing our curriculum, we spent time recognising the unique contextual needs of our school and our children. Therefore, our curriculum design initially aims to address eight key contextual aspects. They are to:

1. Encourage our children to be aspirational so that they reach their true potential
2. Develop language, vocabulary and communication skills
3. Promote a love of a reading
4. Develop our children’s ‘cultural capital’ by providing a wide range of experiences and opportunities
5. Ensure children have a strong understanding of, and exposure to, diversity and British Values
6. Support the social and emotional development of our children
7. Give children opportunities to be creative
8. Encourage children to be active and healthy

 

Curriculum Design

To achieve our Curriculum Intent our curriculum design aims to:

• Demonstrate our school ethos of Care + Belief + Pride = Success in all we do
• Achieve high standards
• Include opportunities for children to develop their life skills and be exposed to first-hand, experiential learning
• Ensure the full breadth of the National Curriculum is delivered as a minimum pupil entitlement and is tailored to the needs and interests of our children
• Ensure that our curriculum is coherent and progressive
• Make explicit the knowledge it intends to impart, and deepen, through a knowledge-led approach that underpins the development of ‘skills’ and ‘competencies’
• Ensure that clear and purposeful links are made within and across subjects to ensure that the curriculum is meaningful and progressive
• Provide children with regular opportunities to recall, and reflect on, their learning so that it sticks in their long-term memory
• Protect the ‘subjectness of subjects’ so that children are clear on what they are learning, why they are learning it and how they can progress
• Provide children with opportunities to learn from, and about, their locality and its heritage
   

Click here for the Collective Vision Trust Currciulum Overview

If you would like any further information about the school’s curriculum please contact the school office with your enquiry – office@crackleybank.staffs.sch.uk