Curriculum Overview
OUR CURRICULUM
At Grosvenor Road Primary School we deliver a broad and balanced curriculum that enables all children to ‘be the best they can be’. The English and mathematics curriculum follows ‘mastery principles’: ensuring children have opportunities to embed learning before moving onto the next topic. The curriculum is inclusive and imaginative : stimulating young minds as well as preparing them for the modern world.
EARLY YEARS FOUNDATION STAGE: Nursery & Reception
Our full Early Years Curriculum can be found on our Early Years page - Select Curriculum > Early Years above or select this LINK .Further information regarding the Early Years, including a 'Virtual Tour' video can also be found on our Starting Early Years page HERE
NATIONAL CURRICULUM: Year 1 to Year 6
Information regarding our curriculum in each NC Subject can be found in the CURRICULUM tab at the top of this page.
English
Literature lies at the heart of the school’s English curriculum: the children read both contemporary and classical British authors as well as literature from around the world.
Mathematics
There is a termly plan for each year group from Year 1 to Year 6. Each term is split into twelve weeks. As part of each overview, a significant amount of time is devoted to developing key number concepts each year. This ensures children build their fluency, as number sense will affect their success in other areas of mathematics. Children who are successful with number are much more confident mathematicians.
The wider curriculum
The National Curriculum subjects are taught discretely, this ensures children become skilled in all the foundation subjects. The school is committed to developing an appreciation of visual and performance art alongside inspiring the next generation of historians and geographers.
Throughout the curriculum the British values of: democracy, rule of law, individual liberty, mutual respect and tolerance for those with different faiths and beliefs are interwoven. Children are taught a weekly Religious Education lesson - the school follows the locally agreed syllabus which was updated in 2022 (this can be found on the RE page)
Foundation Subjects - The Big Ideas
We have designed a curriculum that builds links between topics within a subject, thus enabling our children to build up deep understanding of the disciplines within the curriculum subjects.
The Big Ideas is a systemic approach: ensuring that the curriculum model enables teachers to plan for, and for pupils to gain, sufficiently deep and meaningful LINKS across and between topics to create rich schema. Please select the Big Ideas document below for further information.