Our Curriculum
Purpose
Learning opens doors; learning changes lives.
Vision
At Earlham we believe that all children deserve the very best education. All our pupils have the opportunity to achieve their full potential, so they can begin to choose their path in life and to flourish in the world.
Intent
Our curriculum is designed to provide our pupils with the foundations of a love of lifelong learning, to give them ‘powerful’ knowledge which enables them to engage with and communicate about the world beyond their lived experience, and to think analytically and critically about the world around them.
Implementation
We teach each subject in discrete half-term blocks we call units of learning. You can see the curriculum intent and full curriculum map for each subject by clicking the links below or go directly to a subject curriculum page using the menu on the left of this page.
English History Geography Religion and Worldviews PSHE Music Art
D&T Science Maths Computing PE French Early Years
Planning for knowledge
We follow the national curriculum. We have sequenced our curriculum to build on prior learning and extend and grow subject knowledge as pupils journey through the school. Each of our unit plans has a 'planning for knowledge' summary that shows the unit knowledge outcomes, vocabulary and progression standards, the prior learning pupils bring to the unit and the future learning this unit feeds into and supports.
We have prepared knowledge organisers for each unit of learning showing the key facts pupils need to know and retain at the end of each unit; these are sent home as part of our home-school link, and are used as a resource in class. Pupils are quizzed regularly throughout the year on the key facts, to ensure they have retained their learning and knowledge.
Impact
We assess the English and Maths learning and progress of our pupils against the standards set out in the National Curriculum and Key Stage 1 and 2 assessment guidance. The progression standards for all other subjects are set out in the Eko Trust Non-Core Assessment Policy and based on the standards set by the national associations for teaching in each subject. Our Eko Trust School Improvement Partner, Eko Trust Executive Leaders, school governors and our own Senior Leadership Team all conduct regular learning walks and pupil conferences to check that our pupils are engaged in their learning, can talk about it, and have retained the key knowledge from each of our units of learning.
For more information about the attainment of our pupils please click here for Key Stage 1 data and here for KS2 data.