Chalton Lower Curriculum
The School Curriculum
“The curriculum is the heart of the school and the child is the heart of the curriculum”
The school offers a curriculum which covers the requirements of the National Curriculum and is balanced and broadly based.
It promotes the spiritual, moral, cultural, mental and physical development of pupils at the school and prepares pupils at the school for the opportunities, responsibilities and experiences of later life.
The curriculum offers the children a wide range of learning experiences. We have a two year rolling curriculum [found below] so that all the subject areas are covered as the children are in mixed year groups.
Curriculum Intent
At Chalton Lower School, the curriculum is designed so that the we teach a well planned, structured curriculum that ensures children’s learning is built on effectively each year; it develops a positive attitude to learning; it allows the children to be creative and develop their own thinking; it helps them to be prepared for life in modern Britain, building resilience and self-esteem; it allows them to become independent learners with high aspirations;
- To enable all children to learn and develop their skills to the best of their ability;
- To promote a positive attitude towards learning, so that children enjoy coming to school, and acquire a solid basis for lifelong learning;
- To teach children the basic skills of literacy, numeracy and information technology (IT);
- To enable children to be creative and to develop their own thinking;
- To teach children about their developing world, including how their environment and society have changed over time;
- To help children understand Britain’s cultural heritage;
- To enable children to be positive citizens in society;
- To fulfil all the requirements of the National Curriculum and the Locally Agreed Syllabus for Religious Education;
- To teach children to have an awareness of their own spiritual development, and to understand right from wrong;
- To help children understand the importance of truth and fairness, so that they grow up committed to equal opportunities for all;
- To enable children to have respect for themselves and high self-esteem, and to be able to live and work co-operatively with others.
- To provide an exciting curriculum which is effectively adapted in order to include and inspire all children academically, regardless of their abilities or capabilities.
- To ensure that each child’s education provides continuity and progression.
- To ensure that all tasks are matched to a pupil’s needs and capabilities.
- We recognise that all children are unique, and our curriculum promotes respect for the views of each individual child, as well as for people of all cultures.
- We value the spiritual and moral development of each person, as well as their intellectual and physical growth.
- We value the importance of each person in our community. We organise our curriculum so that we promote co-operation and understanding between all members of our community.
- We value the rights enjoyed by each person in our society. We respect each child in our school for who they are, and we treat them with fairness and honesty. We aim to enable each person to be successful, and we provide equal opportunities for all the children in our school.
- We value our environment, and we aim, through our curriculum, to teach respect for our world, and how we should care for it for future generations, as well as our own.
At Chalton Lower School we follow the National Curriculum.
Over the six terms of the key stage, each child has the opportunity to experience the full range of National Curriculum subjects.
The National Curriculum is delivered using a combination of teaching styles. Approaches such as whole class, group and individual work are used according to the activity in hand. Usually the children will be taught in a whole-class situation and then prepared follow-up activities will be given to each child to allow them to work at their own level within a group.
Homework
Please see our homework tab for more information
Monitoring and Review
Our Governing Body’s curriculum committee is responsible for monitoring the way the school curriculum is implemented.
To find out more information about our curriculum please speak to your child’s class teacher in the first instance or contact Miss Bill the headteacher.
