Curriculum

September 2025 marked a significant evolution in our curriculum, shaped by recent Ofsted recommendations. We now deliver a subject-specific curriculum, moving away from overarching topics to ensure greater depth and breadth of knowledge. Each subject is taught through lessons that link to a specific theme or topic, allowing children to build expertise and make meaningful connections across disciplines.
To support this approach, we have adopted high-quality schemes of learning:

Literacy Tree for English
WhiteRose Maths for Mathematics
Oak National Academy for the Wider Curriculum

These resources help us maintain consistency, challenge, and progression across all subjects, ensuring every child receives a rich and balanced education.

To learn more about our curriculum’s Intent, Implementation, and Impact, please see our Curriculum Statement.

Curriculum Statement

Phonics

Throughout EYFS and KS1 we use Little Wandle to deliver our Phonics curriculum. This is a DfE approved systematic phonics scheme and alongside the delivery of phonics sessions children have 3 guided reading sessions each week. Books are matched closely to the phonics being taught that week. Following the third guided read in school, parents are given access to the book to read at home with their child to further develop fluency. These books are accessed via the online Collins portal.

In order to foster a love of reading children also take home a shared reading book each week and a reading for pleasure book that can be read to them by someone at home.

Assessment

All schools are required to have in place their own assessment system to track the progress of all pupils within the curriculum. As we are part of the Stone Partnership of Schools, we use a common system to record our assessments. Target Tracker is used to keep an ongoing record of your child's progress and attainment.

At each Parents Evening you will be given information about both your child's progress and attainment as they move through each year group. At the end of the summer term you will receive a written report that will give information on your child's achievement in relation to the standards, as defined by the DfE, for each year group.

The terminology for attainment that we use is as follows:

Code Descriptors:

Below - Children are judged as ‘Below’ when they are working on curriculum content below that expected for their age and are not currently on track to meet age-related expectations by the end of the year.

Just At - Children are judged as ‘Just At’ when they are accessing the expectations of their year group but are not yet secure. They may need additional support to sustain progress and fully meet age-related expectations by the end of the year.

Securely At - Children judged as ‘Securely At’ are confidently meeting the skills, knowledge and understanding for their year group and can apply them consistently across a range of contexts. They are securely on track to meet age-related expectations.

Above – Children are judged as ‘Above’ when they are securely meeting national expectations for their age and demonstrating mastery and understanding beyond that of most pupils in their year group.