Curriculum Intent

At Hebden Royd Primary we are surrounded by opportunities to investigate the natural world. We intend to enthuse our children: to make them curious, to encourage them to become inquisitive questioners and to show confidence within our local and wider community.

We take a thematic and creative approach to the curriculum, encompassing skills and knowledge through scientific investigations, creative arts, historical and geographical enquiry as well as having a relentless focus upon Reading, Writing and Mathematics. The school’s focus on curriculum development provides pupils with memorable experiences, in addition to diverse and rich opportunities from which children can learn and develop a range of transferable skills.

Curriculum Policy

At Hebden Royd CE Primary School, our curriculum is based on the September 2014 National Curriculum for Key Stages 1 & 2 and the Early Years 2021 framework in Reception. We follow a 2-year rolling cycle in many subjects (Rotation A & Rotation B) as we operate with split year groups in Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2.

Our well planned curriculum combined with quality teaching ensures that children are supported to be well rounded, empathetic young people who have a genuine thirst for learning. Children develop a strong sense of moral purpose in addition to a respect for and understanding of people.

Introduction

The curriculum is all the planned activities that we as a school organise in order to promote learning, personal growth and development. It includes, not only the formal requirements of the National Curriculum, but also the range of extra-curricular activities that the school organises in order to enrich the experiences of our children. It also includes the ‘hidden curriculum’, or what the children learn from the way they are treated and expected to behave. We aim to teach children how to grow into positive, responsible people, who can work and co-operate with others, whilst developing knowledge, skills and attitudes to learning, in order that they achieve their true potential.

Values

At Hebden Royd CE Primary School, we strive to enjoy our learning and make it as much fun and as meaningful and relevant as possible. We offer children an excellent education in a safe, calm, creative, inclusive and stimulating environment. Every child is valued as an individual; we aim to nurture well rounded, respectful and confident children who will develop skills for life-long learning. We nurture our children on their journey and encourage them to be creative, unique, open-minded and independent individuals, respectful of themselves and of others in our school, our local community and the wider world. We take our responsibility to prepare children for life in modern Britain very seriously and ensure that the fundamental British Values are introduced, discussed and lived out through the ethos and work of our school.

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 organise our curriculum so that we promote co-operation and understanding between all members of our community; 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.

Our Aims

At Hebden Royd CE Primary School, we aim to offer a balanced and broad-based curriculum which enables all pupils to:

  • Enjoy learning

  • Feel successful in their learning and to promote high self esteem

  • Become creative, independent learners

  • Be given significant time to learn new skills and have time to practise those skills

  • Have the flexibility to decide how best to learn in different situations

  • Have the flexibility to decide what they are going to learn and how

  • Be given the opportunity to decide upon the final outcome of their learning

  • Be able to set own targets for learning

  • Know what their strengths are and which areas they need to develop

  • Become successful lifelong learners who are able to reach their full potential

  • Be able to evaluate and assess their own learning

  • Develop their critical thinking

  • Understand and value the importance of truth, fairness, right and wrong

  • Nurture positive relationships promoting working co-operatively with one another

  • Help children understand Britain’s cultural heritage

  • Explore their spiritual, moral, cultural, mental and physical development.

  • Learn and practise the basic skills of English, Mathematics and Computing

  • Make learning more meaningful by putting it into context

  • Challenge themselves and engage themselves in deeper learning