Gayton Church Of England Primary Academy Curriculum Statement
Through our Christian Faith, we acknowledge our responsibility to all, to enrich lives and show love and respect within our school family. We believe in lifelong learning aiming to equip our children to live life today and for tomorrow rooted in Christian love.
Ready, Respectful, Safe.
Together being the best that we can be in mind, body and spirit!
“In everything, treat others the same way you want them to treat you”
Matthew 7:12
At Gayton Church of England Primary Academy we work together in a Christian community to be ready to learn, respectful of everyone and safe to flourish. We challenge and support each other to be the best that we can be in mind, body and spirit to achieve more than we ever thought possible.
Intent:
Our Curriculum has been designed to ensure each and every child can ' live life in all its fullness' by offering stimulating and awe-inspiring learning experiences with Christian values at its heart.
It is bespoke to the needs of the pupils at Gayton Church of England Primary Academy, not only by focussing on appropriate subject specific knowledge, skills and understanding as set out in the National Curriculum, but by developing individual and collaborative learning experiences, a positive growth mindset, a sense of responsibility and challenges that take them beyond the classroom.
We are a small rural school with a constantly evolving curriculum which responds to the needs of learners and their interests by enhancing learning experiences and raising awareness from the local area to national and global arenas. Thus, we will develop outward looking pupils who are able to engage in learning about themselves and have an understanding of the wider world and its diverse cultures.
Ultimately our curriculum is:
Implementation:
Through quality teaching of knowledge, skills and vocabulary across core and foundation subjects, all children will be challenged to be inquisitive, compassionate, courageous and creative learners. They will have opportunities to influence their own learning through age appropriate and progressive themes and topics. Effective learning characteristics including being ambitious, reflective and imaginative will drive teaching and learning.
Impact:
Our children will have a confident set of skills, knowledge, norms and Christian values which can be used to get ahead in education and life more generally. In short they will learn more, remember more, enjoy more and develop more spiritually, socially and emotionally. Thus enabling them to be ready for their next stage in education.
To find out more about our curriculum, please speak to your child's class teacher.
Do the children experience a wide and engaging curriculum? Yes! From educational visits off site, to places like Gressenhall and Castle Rising Castle, to in-house workshops and guests, such as our science focus days and history workshops, the children enjoy a school day designed to engage, challenge, allow for thinking and encourage reflection. After-school clubs and lunchtime groups for sports, music, science, cookery, choir, computing, colouring, school council and many more all take place in this thriving school curriculum offer.
How do we enrich the children’s spiritual, moral, social and cultural understanding, as well as their personal development, in matters of health, economics and well-being? The children experience a fully-integrated curriculum of collective worship, enrichment days and charitable activities. As well as special days to celebrate national and global events such as PRIDE month, Black History month, National Poetry day, Book Week and support for Ukraine. We follow the JIGSAW curriculum for PSHE and RSE which includes online-safety, fairtrade, anti-bullying delivered throughout the year; we revisit important concepts such as personal safety, resilience, friendship, teamwork and responsibility again and again, to ensure that all children have opportunities to broaden their understanding of the community and develop confidence in how to care for themselves, stay safe, and maintain a thirst for learning about the world and their place in it.
Simple Whole School Curriculum Overview
We teach phonics based on Little Wandle Letters and Sounds Revised. We use book banded books to practise and consolidate the skills acquired in phonics. The early stages of the reading scheme have been separated to ensure that we have texts which are completely phonetically decodable. These books are from Collins's Big Cat. For those pupils requiring additional breadth at the same level, we have books within the same band which may not be completely phonetically decodable but remain accessible to those pupils.
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