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St John's Highbury Vale CE Primary School

Curriculum Overview

Curriculum Overview

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At St John’s Highbury Vale we believe that the curriculum should be as broad and balanced as possible, offering children the opportunity to achieve success in many different areas. Although our curriculum adheres to the statutory elements of the National Curriculum 2014, there are other planned opportunities that make up the wider curriculum at our school.

Curriculum Overview

Home > Learning  > Teaching and Learning > Curriculum Overview

Curriculum Overview

At St John’s Highbury Vale we believe that the curriculum should be as broad and balanced as possible, offering children the opportunity to achieve success in many different areas. Although our curriculum adheres to the statutory elements of the National Curriculum 2014, there are other planned opportunities that make up the wider curriculum at our school.

Along with all other maintained schools in England, we are be required by government to teach the revised National Curriculum from September 2014.

The curriculum is ‘what’ will be taught.  The Government has slimmed these requirements down to enable schools to add areas they feel children need for their development.

The curriculum does not dictate ‘how’ things are taught.  That is down to us! We mix a rich cross curricular approach to make learning fun, with discrete teaching of specialist subjects such as computing, foreign languages and physical education. We believe in using research to inform our teaching practice and pedagogy.  For more information about how we do this- see our Teachers as Learners section.

 

Below you will find our curriculum design created in 2015. However, we are currently in the process of a designing a new curriculum, which will be driven by ‘big questions’ and will be in line with both the new Ofsted and SIAMS framework. We are hoping to launch this in September 2019.

If you would like more information on the national curriculum, please click on the link below:

National Curriculum 2014