Our Curriculum Intent

Our curriculum centres around our core values and is a response to the needs of the community we serve. We want every day to be a day of joyful learning for our children and we do this by providing an authentic, stimulating, broad and balanced curriculum that is enquiry based and is literacy and language rich.  Ensuring every child can read at an age appropriate level is one of the main drivers of our curriculum. We are continually improving our curriculum so that its content is the most important and most useful it can be. Our intent is to teach our curriculum in a logical progression, systematically and explicitly enough for ALL children to acquire the crucial knowledge and skills they need so that ALL our children will to be successful and we will have inspired a love of learning in EVERY child. 

Placing pupils’ spiritual, moral, social and cultural development at the heart of our creative curriculum is how we strive to unlock our children’s dreams. Our core values: Be Kind, Be Safe, Be A Great Learner, were written before the pandemic. Covid 19 has not altered that passion and focus to pinpoint what each child needs to flourish and grow so that they can meet their potential through our nurturing and inspirational curriculum.

Our school motto: ‘Ancora Imparo’ - ‘I am still learning‘ (Michelangelo aged 87) embodies our school mission to unearth talented artists, sportspersons, writers, musicians, medics, scientists and teachers. By cultivating a strong growth mind-set culture across the school, we aim to increase children’s happiness and well-being and provide our pupils with the knowledge and cultural capital they need to succeed in life. Our creative, inclusive, curriculum, which celebrates all our differences, has led to us being crowned winners of the prestigious Educate Award for, ‘Outstanding Arts in A Primary School’ for the last three years and to us being short-listed for the TES Award for,’ Creative School of the Year 2019 and 2020’.

Our strong links with Liverpool Hope University have led to aspirational visits for our high-attaining children and both staff and children have led seminars and lectures for the teachers of the future; sharing our learning about our creative curriculum and cultural capital.