At Bearwood Primary School we are committed to ensuring that all children are fully prepared for the next stage of their educational journey, and to go on to be successful, compassionate and productive adults with integrity.
We ensure a clear progression throughout every subject of the curriculum, carefully developing children’s skills and knowledge. For each subject we have devised and agreed 'Golden Threads' which run from EYFS to the end of Year Six. These are the key areas of learning taken from within the National Curriculum which drive our curriculum design. We want our children to effectively build on previous learning – knowing and remembering more as they journey through the school.
We want our children to make secure progress in their learning, keeping up and even excelling, rather than a need to catch up. This means we carefully assess where children are and plan for their next steps in learning. We do this through the mastery approach, with the expectation that all children will be at age-related expectations or above unless they have particular learning needs.
Our children are developed to be literate and numerate, and are given daily opportunities to apply key literacy and numeracy skills across the curriculum. Indeed, high quality texts form a very important part of our curriculum offer. We also enable our children to question and comprehend new information, and make important connections across the curriculum. We want our children to have strong skills of collaboration, communication, creativity and high-order thinking, as we believe these are important for them to develop into confident, decent and compassionate citizens with the capacity to be flexible in an ever-changing world. We want our children to understand the world in which they live, and how it has become that way. We want them to understand their place in the world, and their interconnectedness with others. We want them to have a firm grasp of time and place – locally, nationally and internationally.
Whilst journeying through Bearwood, our children will develop a rich cultural capital from the exposure they will have to the wide range of topics they encounter. Children will engage in a variety of educational visits and interactive workshops which have been carefully selected to ensure all children have many experiences and to further enhance their learning.
We develop our children’s characters through our focus on values, also developing within them a growth-mindset. This will set them in good stead to be compassionate and productive adults with integrity - able to successfully adapt within our ever-changing world.
