Our Curriculum

Real People, Real Places, Real Learning!

Carlton Edge is an innovative programme unique to the Trust to develop the social capital, life experiences and aspirations of students in the Trust.

The Social Capital programme comprises of various experiences.

This includes:

Outdoor and adventurous trip/residential
Visit to the countryside
Visit to a major city
Visit to the coast
Visit to the theatre
Visit to a town/city of historical significance
Additional trip to the coast or countryside

Trust CEO Adrian Kneeshaw is a great advocate of the programme commenting, “The Edge programme is a significant financial commitment, but this is more than worth it when considering the huge benefits the programme brings to Carlton students”.

Learn More, Remember More, Do More!

INTENT

To generate awe, wonder and wow through a creative curriculum which rigorously ensures coverage and progression in key skills and cumulatively consolidates the knowledge children obtain through experience Our curriculum is:-

Flexible
Personalised, where children are involved in planning and evaluation
Tailored to children’s needs and interests
Takes account of teachers’ passions and areas of strength as well as current local/world events
Allows for different learning and teaching styles
Rigorous
Includes non-negotiable skills, knowledge and understanding to ensure coverage and progression
Bespoke: live assessment trackers ensure no duplication
Fulfils and exceeds National Curriculum requirements and expectations
Includes a high-level of parental engagement
Brought to life through visits and visitors
Ensures that the learning of new knowledge transfers to long term memory
Ambitious
Challenging for our articulate and engaged pupils
Goes beyond National Curriculum expectations
Promotes greater depth understanding, critical thinking and oracy skills, where the understanding of new vocabulary used in context is key. The teaching of new vocabulary is not incidental accessible
A curriculum for all groups
Accessible for the whole school community
Aware
Outward-looking
Celebrates our diverse community, where all children have an understanding of equality and respect amongst protected characteristics
Promotes awareness of global issues
Immerses our children to a world outside their local community
Where cultural capital is promoted to ensure that are no limits to children’s aspirations
Adaptive
Evolves organically and because we drive it forward
Not static – proactive and reactive in response to different children and assessment data

IMPLEMENTATION

Taken from the National Curriculum
Knowledge and skills broken down and layered for each year group
Bespoke trackers ensure progression from year to year, each year builds on the last without unnecessary duplication
Subject Leaders developed using resident SLEs and LEPs and a coach and learner approach to continuous CPD
Assessment grading system encourages challenge for more able
Teachers scaffold up where necessary to ensure almost all pupils can access main skills
British history topics taught chronologically in KS2
Use of core English texts across the whole school explicitly linked to curriculum topics
Coverage monitored termly by Subject Leaders and documented using ‘At a Glace’ summaries for each curricular area
Subjects assessed at the end of each term and outcomes used to inform pupil progress meetings
Intervention marking ensures teachers can pick up children not meeting expectations and put in appropriate provision to ensure progress
Marshfield Values (Ambition, Respect and Resilience) are used to promote, reward and recognise the whole child across the whole curriculum

IMPACT

A clear coherent curriculum
Focused learning intentions taken from skills ensure lessons have a clear learning point
Children have some ownership over learning - encourages engagement
Flexible topics – children continue their learning outside of the classroom
Promotes transferable skills
Parents and carers are actively involved in their children’s learning and are ambitious in ensuring that social mobility is promoted.

Marshfield Primary School's Curriculum Teaching Sequence

Our Curriculum. Real People, Real Places, Real Learning!

Please visit individual class pages which explain and outline each topic for this half term. The letters sent home suggesting learning activities to support your child/children's learning outside school are also exhibited here. In addition, there is also the valuable opportunity of coming into school at the end of each topic to witness learning and teaching at first hand via our Curriculum Showcase Events. Looking forward to seeing you there; to share and celebrate the wonderful work which goes on at Marshfield Primary.