INTENT

To generate awe, wonder and wow through a creative curriculum which also rigorously ensures coverage and progression in key skills. Our curriculum is:-

Flexible

• Personalised, where children are involved in planning and evaluation through Knowledge Harvests and Knowledge Review
• Tailored to children’s needs and interests
• Takes account of teachers’ passions and areas of strength as well as current local/world events
• Allows for different learning and teaching styles

Rigorous

• Includes non-negotiable skills, knowledge and understanding to ensure coverage and progression
• Bespoke: live Marshfield assessment trackers ensure no duplication
• Fulfils and exceeds National Curriculum requirements and expectations
• Includes a high-level of parental engagement
• Brought to life through visits and visitors
• Ensures that the learning of new knowledge transfers to long term memory

Ambitious

• Challenging for our articulate and engaged pupils
• Goes beyond National Curriculum expectations
• Promotes greater depth understanding, critical thinking and oracy skills, where the understanding of new vocabulary used in context is key

Accessible

• A curriculum for all groups
• Accessible for the whole school community

Aware

• Outward-looking
• Celebrates our diverse community
• Promotes awareness of global issues
• Immerses our children to a world outside BD5
• Where cultural capital is promoted to ensure that are no limits to children’s aspirations

Adaptive

• Evolves organically and because we drive it forward
• Not static – proactive and reactive in response to different children, assessment data and changing needs

IMPLEMENTATION

• Taken from the National Curriculum
• Each skill broken down and layered for each year group
• Bespoke Marshfield trackers ensure progression from year to year: each year builds on the last without unnecessary duplication
• Subject Leaders developed using resident SLEs and LEPs and a coach and learner approach to continuous CPD
• Assessment grading system encourages challenge for more able
• Teachers scaffold up where necessary to ensure almost all pupils can access main skills
• British history topics taught chronologically in KS2
• Use of core English texts across the whole school explicitly linked to curriculum topics
• Coverage monitored termly by Subject Leaders and documented using ‘At a Glace’ summaries for each curricular area
• Subjects assessed at end of each term and outcomes used to inform pupil progress meetings.
• Intervention marking ensures teachers can pick up children not meeting expectations and put in appropriate provision to ensure progress
• Learning Goals are used to promote, reward and recognise the whole child across the whole curriculum

IMPACT

• A clear coherent curriculum
• Focused learning intentions taken from skills ensure lessons have a clear learning point
• Children have some ownership over learning- encourages engagement
• Flexible topics – interested pupils continue their learning outside of the classroom
• Promote transferable skills
• Parents and carers are actively involved in their children’s learning and are ambitious in ensuring that social mobility is promoted

Please visit individual class pages which explain and outline each topic for this half term. The letters sent home suggesting learning activities to support your child/children's learning outside school are also exhibited here. In addition, there is also the valuable opportunity of coming into school at the end of each topic to witness learning and teaching at first hand via our Exit Points. Looking forward to seeing you there; to share and celebrate the wonderful work which goes on at Marshfield.