At Gisburn Road our curriculum is all the planned activities that we organise in order to promote learning, personal growth and development.
Our curriculum intent
At Gisburn Road Community Primary School our curriculum is designed to:
- recognise children’s prior learning
- provide first hand learning experiences
- allow the children to develop interpersonal skills
- build resilience and become creative, critical thinkers
Every child is recognised as a unique individual. We celebrate and welcome differences within our school community. The ability to learn is underpinned by the teaching of basic skills, knowledge, concepts and values.
We constantly provide enhancement opportunities to engage learning and believe that childhood should be a happy, investigative and enquiring time in our lives where there are no limits to curiosity and there is a thirst for new experiences and knowledge.
Our school strapline is: Dream it, Believe it, Achieve it!
We promote positive attitudes to learning which reflect the values and skills needed to promote responsibility for learning and future success.
The impact of our curriculum
The innovative practice across the school provides a strong foundation and opportunities for children to collaborate and develop social skills both indoors and out. This curriculum design ensures that the needs of individual and small groups of children can be met within the environment of high quality teaching, supported by targeted, proven interventions where appropriate. In this way it can be seen to impact in a very positive way on children’s outcomes.
Enjoyment of the curriculum promotes achievement, confidence and good behaviour. Children feel safe to try new things. High quality visits and visitors to the school enhance the curriculum and provide opportunities for writing for a purpose.
Children have opportunities to share their learning with each other, their parents and carers and other learners through school-based and external exhibitions, performances, competitions and events involving other schools. Developing their independence and motivation as learners and their sense of responsibility as future citizens is at the heart of all our teaching and learning.
Children leave our school with a sense of belonging to a tightly knit community where they have the confidence and skills to make decisions, self-evaluate, make connections and become lifelong learners.
The values within our curriculum
- We value the way in which all children are unique, and our curriculum promotes respect for the views of each individual child, as well as for people of all cultures.
- We value the spiritual and moral development of each person, as well as their intellectual and physical growth.
- We value the importance of each person in our community.
- We organise our curriculum so that we promote co-operation and understanding between all members of our community.
- We use the community to enrich the curriculum.
- We value the rights enjoyed by each person in our society.
- We respect each child in our school for who they are, and we treat them with fairness and honesty.
- We nurture each person to enable them to be successful, and we provide equal opportunities for all the children in our school.
- We value our environment, and we aim, through our curriculum, to teach respect for our world, and how we should care for it for future generations, as well as our own.
- We value parents and work in partnership with them to enrich the curriculum. Parents are informed about the curriculum through curriculum newsletters, home learning and shared learning experiences within topics. Parents are positively encouraged to become involved.
- We celebrate learning successes in our Friday assembly and by displaying children’s work.
What our curriculum aims to achieve
The aims of our school curriculum are:
- To enable all children to understand that they are all successful learners
- To enable children to understand the skills and attributes needed to be a successful learner
- To enable children to develop their own personal interests
- To promote a ‘CAN DO’ attitude towards learning, so that children enjoy coming to school, and acquire a solid basis for lifelong learning
- To teach children the basic skills of literacy, numeracy and computing
- To enable children to be creative through art, dance, music, drama and design technology
- To enable children to be healthy individuals who enjoy sport and appreciate the importance of a healthy life style
- To teach children about their developing world, including how their environment and society have changed over time
- To help children understand Britain’s cultural heritage and British Values
- To enable children to be positive citizens in society and to feel that they can make a difference
- To enable children to understand and respect other cultures
- To fulfil all the requirements of the National Curriculum and the Locally Agreed syllabus for Religious Education
- To teach children to have an awareness of their own spiritual development, and to understand right from wrong
- To help children understand the importance of truth and fairness, so that they grow up committed to equal opportunities for all
- To enable children to have respect for themselves and high self-esteem and to be able to live and work cooperatively with other
- To enable children to be active and take responsibility for their own health
- To enable a child to play a musical instrument
- To enable children to be passionate about what they believe in and to develop their own thinking
- To enable children to ask questions and take risks
- To enable children to develop their intellect including their emotional development.