Our Curriculum Statement
Curriculum Statement
Our Croft Curriculum has been designed to embrace creativity to enable children to reach their potential and achieve success and is built around The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child and our Croft Code:
We are caring and sharing
Our Croft Curriculum aims to help all of our children to know how to live peacefully and how to protect the environment.
We are respectful and responsible
Our Croft Curriculum aims to teach all of our children to understand their own rights and to respect the rights, cultures and differences of others.
We strive for excellence
Our Croft Curriculum aims to provide all of our children with a primary education which helps them to develop their personalities, talents and abilities. We set high expectations for every pupil and adapt lessons to stretch pupils as well as support pupils with low levels of prior attainment, EAL and SEN so there are no barriers to every pupil achieving.
Our Croft Curriculum, in line with the national curriculum, aims to provide pupils with an introduction to the essential knowledge that they need to be educated citizens. It introduces pupils to the best that has been thought and said; and helps engender an appreciation of human creativity and achievement. Our Croft Curriculum as a whole aims to promote the spiritual, moral, cultural, mental and physical development of pupils and prepare them for the opportunities, responsibilities and experiences of the next stage in their education and later life.
Croft Core Curriculum
Our Croft Core Curriculum focuses on developing pupils’ language and literacy and mathematical fluency as these skills are the essential foundations for success across all subjects. Our Early Years curriculum ensures children learn and develop well and are kept healthy and safe. It promotes teaching and learning to ensure children’s ‘school readiness’ and gives children the right foundation for good future progress through school and life. In key stage 1 we place great emphasis on ensuring that pupils can read, write and use mathematical knowledge, ideas and operations so that they are able to access a broad and balanced curriculum at key stage 2. As a school we prioritise reading and have a rigorous and sequential approach to our reading curriculum which is detailed in our English toolkit. As a school we ensure that our pupils develop mathematical fluency, are able to reason mathematically and can solve problems by applying their maths and have refined our maths curriculum and established a maths toolkit.
Croft Creative Curriculum
Our Croft Creative Curriculum is coherently planned and sequenced to ensure that our pupils know more and remember more so that they can do more. At Croft Primary School our priority is to design and implement a curriculum that is best suited to our pupils’ needs. This means providing them with a fully inclusive curriculum, which has both breadth and depth, that is highly relevant and purposeful, exciting for both staff and pupils, and that will develop a real passion for learning. It will also broaden our pupils’ outlook and views by promoting global dimensions, as well as raising their aspirations. We work hard to develop subject specialists so that they can provide effective support for the teaching team.
We aim to offer challenging and inspiring learning opportunities, highlighting human creativity and achievement. We strive to help our pupils realise the full potential they have to achieve and succeed, not just at school, but as educated citizens within their own community and on a wider global scale. We want our curriculum to enable our pupils to become more independent learners, who are able to make connections between new and existing learning.
Croft Behaviour Curriculum
The Croft Code outlines our core expectations for excellent behaviour and is displayed around school. Pupils are taught what these words mean and provided with examples of how to demonstrate how to be caring, sharing, respectful, and responsible through weekly assemblies and a common language used by all staff.
Pupils are expected to follow our Croft Code and learn the Croft key habits and routines which will support them to strive for excellence.
Where appropriate and reasonable, adjustments may be made to routines to ensure all pupils can meet behavioural expectations in the curriculum.
Croft Curriculum impact for all pupils
Our pupils develop detailed knowledge and skills across the curriculum and this is reflected in the work that pupils produce and the enthusiasm they show for their learning.
Pupils read widely and often, with fluency and comprehension appropriate to their age. They are able to apply mathematical knowledge, concepts and procedures appropriately for their age.
The impact of our curriculum is reflected in improving results from national tests in Reception and Year 1 and at the end of each key stage. We ensure that our pupils with SEND achieve the best possible outcomes.
As our pupils move through Croft, we enable them to become well-rounded and happy individuals who not only care about themselves, but about others and the environment.
For further information, please contact the Curriculum Lead: Mrs Rachael Travill, Deputy Headteacher