Our curriculum is the body of knowledge that our pupils learn while at Churchfields Junior School. It is best explained through the answers to three questions:
This page and the additional specific subject pages will help you understand more about the curriculum and its delivery at Churchfields Junior School.
We want to see all our pupils thrive as successful learners socially and academically through high quality teaching and an enriched, knowledge led curriculum.
We aim to develop independent, thinking children who are ambitious, emotionally equipped and confident enough to make good life choices.
We encourage our pupils to relate well to one another with confidence, care, openness and respect.
We aim to meet the needs of all learners in our curriculum, challenging them and enabling them to critically think, problem solve and undertake learning at a deeper level.
We want all pupils to develop Cultural Capital. To have the knowledge, behaviours and skills to face the future with confidence.
Our provision is informed by educational research into effective teaching practices, cognition and how knowledge and understanding develops. These act as a guide for the consistency and distinctiveness of our curriculum.
Teaching is based on a clear understanding of cognition and learning.
Teachers have deep knowledge of the subjects they teach and develop in pupils well connected networks of ideas (schema).
Unconscious Competence. Connecting new knowledge with existing knowledge so they have fluency and can unconsciously apply their knowledge as skills.
Teachers assess learning and provide timely feedback, reshape learning and adapt teaching as needed.
Pupil groupings are flexible, changed regularly and not driven by perceived “ability” or prior attainment.
The classroom climate and culture is calm, expects all to excel and enables the learning values.
Questioning ALL pupils – cold calling, checking understanding or process, probing, say it again better, think/pair/share.
Developing strong partnership with parents and carers that influence good attitudes to learning at home and school.
Our full school curriculum comprises an entire planned educational experience informed by organisational principles and approaches, making full use of opportunities for real world learning.
Our curriculum has an ambition for high achievement for all pupils irrespective of background or starting point. This achievement is represented in three key areas:
Pupils consistently attain and make progress far higher than national expectations. They are given opportunities to achieve at higher standards. Assessment shows that knowledge acquired through education and experience and the skills (the know-how to apply the known) are well sequenced, progressive, coherent and embedded throughout the curriculum.
Pupils are confident and successful learners, demonstrating our learning values, cognitive, physical, social and emotional skills. The curriculum framework is designed to give disadvantaged pupils access to the knowledge they need in order to succeed as well as their peers. Exceptional provision and outcomes for SEND pupils.
Pupils demonstrate The Churchfields’ Way and our values in their behaviour in lessons and around the school. Pupils make the right choices for their safety and these choices benefit the school and the wider community. A strong tradition of sport, fitness and physical development.
We regularly review how well our curriculum intent enables consistent high achievement and high impact.
