Reepham Church of England Primary School
'Be Known. Be Loved. Belong.'
Reepham Church of England Primary School
Reepham Church of England Primary School High Street Reepham Lincoln LN3 4DP
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Curriculum
Through our rich curriculum, collective worship and caring community, we guide our children to become responsible, confident and compassionate individuals, preparing them to ‘live life in all its fullness’ (John 10:10).
We are a family!
Spirtually - Emotionally - Academically
We understand that demographics and society changes and we want our curriculum to be relevant, exciting and best prepare our children for the next stage in their education, matching their personal context. To this end, we only ever produce a long-term plan for 4 years, it is then rewritten by consulting parents, staff, and pupils. A 4-year cycle reflects a pupil working through Key Stage 2.
A commitment to pupil and parental voices ensures our curriculum is relevant and meaningful.
Pupil voice says pupils love learning, they like academic lessons and they are proud of their work. Pupils told us:
“We learn things if it is fun."
“We like writing in the mornings and learning facts in the afternoon, as we remember more."
The children have overwhelmingly said:
> THEY LOVE LEARNING
“We like hands-on learning"
> THEY LIKE ACADEMIC SUCCESS
> THEY ARE PROUD OF THEIR WORK
> THEY LIKE TRYING NEW THINGS
> THEY ARE EXPECTED TO DO WELL IN AND OUT OF SCHOOL
Parents consultation told us :
“You have considered the needs of the children”;
“A good variety of topics...”;
“Make sure you keep the fun in learning...”;
“It’s good to see you are keeping the focus on making sure the children are ready for secondary...”;
Older children are succeeding because of “the way this school promoted high standards...”
Parents overwhelmingly told us that they choose us for a proud academic base that best prepares pupils for the next step in their education. These range from Grammar Schools, Independent Schools, outstanding Faith Schools and successful Comprehensive Schools.
When reviewing our curriculum, we look at what has worked, what pupils have previously learnt and we engage with secondary schools. Local secondary schools have worked with us to up-skill our staff with the teaching of different subjects, but they have also come to see our provision for core subjects, telling us “Pupils from Reepham school are very well-equipped to succeed in Secondary.”
Curriculum Intent
Our school vision, taken from the words of The Bishop of Lincoln: "Who you are is God's gift to you. Who you become is your gift to God."
Click on the individual subject intents to see the long term overview of what is covered in each subject and Reepham Church of England Primary School
Our Reading curriculum ensures that through literature, children acquire knowledge, build on what they know, and become active, literate members of society. Our reading curriculum is vital for pupils' cultural, emotional, intellectual, social, and spiritual development. Fostering a love for reading enriches their lives and encourages lifelong learning.
| What reading looks like: individual year group breakdown |
| Phonics and Early Reading policy |
| Phonics long term overview |
Our Mathematics curriculum ensures that all children become confident, resilient, and enthusiastic mathematicians who are able to reason, problem-solve, and think logically in a variety of contexts. Children will leave our school with the knowledge required to be successful with Maths in their learning and their wider lives.
| Maths Learning Pathways | |
| Reepham Calculation Policy |
Our PSHE curriculum equips pupils with the knowledge, skills and understanding that they need to become healthy, independent and responsible members of society. They learn to thrive, stay safe and make informed decisions about their wellbeing and build positive, inclusive relationships with others.
We aim for our children to thrive academically, physically and creatively, enabling them to develop a happy and positive mindset for life. Our curriculum is both inspiring and creative; children are taught to utilise their ‘gifts from God’ to achieve their full potential and be ready for the next stage in their learning journey. To ensure that all children flourish, our curriculum is rooted in high expectations, challenge and support, as we strive for excellence across all curriculum areas.
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RE Long Term Overview - Should Denominal Teaching be required (as outlined in Section 58 of the School Standards and Framework Act 1998) this will be the Headteacher and R.E. coordinator.
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Academic Backbone:
Focus on phonics and early reading, including embedding a love of reading with competitions and visiting authors.
Focus on staying healthy. Sports and PE lessons include swimming, competitions and a focused Sports Week.
Enriched curriculum with events and themes. Enquiry is seen as a focus for having pupils learn knowledge.
Strong pastoral care, including CBT sessions, Lego Therapy and Therapy Dogs.
Reading for pleasure encouraged with competitions. The winning pupils get taken by the Headteacher to buy a book.
Enriched Curriculum: Year 5 learn how to build and maintain real bikes as part of DT, developing skills for life.
Healthy cooking lessons throughout the school.
Enriched Curriculum, in Year 6 pupils design and build BBQs out of bricks and clay. They then cook food they have made on them.
A focus on safety. The school has a safey mascot (Safety Mouse) who every week teaches a safety session.
Learning is always fun.
All subjects are exciting and relevant- visiting artists who used to be a pupil at the school.
Our curriculum is designed to have a strong academic back-bone. Mornings usually have an emphasis on Reading and core English and Maths knowledge, so pupils are best prepared to have academic success throughout their educational journey. This is balanced with an enriched curriculum that often sees afternoon lessons taught hands-on or dialectically, such as investigations in Geography, inviting secondary teachers to deliver lessons or an enriched DT curriculum that sees pupils fixing bicycles and building BBQs to cook on. This prepares pupils for the real world and inspires them in future learning.
Watch a video of Year 6 writing and performing their own film score.
Learning about different faiths to best prepare pupils for life in modern Britain.
Hands on learning in history – How did our mummified vegetables turn out?
Work with secondary schools, including introducing Business and Economics lessons.
After-school events such as Bedtime Story Night ensure home school learning links are strong.
Curriculum Implementation
To support the implementation of our curriculum, each subject has the following documents (or an equivalent) in place:
- A long term plan
- A vocabulary progression document
- A disciplinary skills progression document
- A subject curriculum journey
- A vision document linking the subject to our school vision and setting out non-negotiable progression and a destination to be prepared for (Key Stage 3 expectations)
- A school Research and Evidence Informed Pedagogy statement detailing how evidence-informed pedagogy is used in the planning and delivery of a subject.
These documents are available on request. Below is a document which shows the research that has been implemented in the teaching of our subjects:
Research-based curriculum, evidence-informed pedagogy
Implementing Academic intentions
We will protect subject disciplines of Reading, Writing and Maths. Our lessons in the morning will heavily focus on these areas, to best prepare children for life. The afternoon sessions will balance this with hands-on activities based around Science and the Wider Curriculum; this kinaesthetic approach sees pupils learning through doing and talking about their findings. This enables us to focus on our teaching and complements our morning focus on English and Maths. Afternoon sessions will often be taught through a more themed topic approach. There will be limited writing expectations in these subjects, reflecting a more hands-on learning experience.
Implementing Emotional Resilience, Safety and wellbeing intentions
Our school mission states we know and love our school family; this means ensuring they are cared for, and all members of our school family are supported. Our school ensures that when pupils are unhappy, worried, disturbed or upset there are open channels for them to seek or be offered support, without stigma and with appropriate confidentiality. A healthy school actively seeks to promote emotional health and wellbeing and helps pupils to understand their feelings.
Implementing Spiritual Intentions
Spirituality shapes who we are and what we do. We express this through our strong Christian values, but ensure families of all faiths see us as a safe place to explore and talk about their personal beliefs. This best prepares children for a life where they will be able to live and work in a harmonious multicultural society. See also our Collective Worship and RE policies. The school also has detailed SIAMs paperwork covering matters of SMSC.
Our Curriculum Policy outlines how we implement the National Curriculum in 3 different ways. These are summarised:
Reepham Church of England Primary School follows the National Curriculum with regard to the content and the subjects we teach. As a proud Church of England school, we always ensure education about values runs throughout our lessons. Our Christian beliefs underpin all that we do, we thread the teachings of Jesus Christ through our curriculum and we have a focus value for each term.
See our Curriculum Policy in Full below this section:
Phonics
We believe that all our children can become fluent readers and writers. This is why we teach reading through Little Wandle Letters and Sounds Revised, which is a systematic and synthetic phonics programme. We start teaching phonics in Reception and follow the Little Wandle Letters and Sounds Revised progression, which ensures children build on their growing knowledge of the alphabetic code, mastering phonics to read and spell as they move through school.
As a result, all our children are able to tackle any unfamiliar words as they read. At Reepham School, we also model the application of the alphabetic code through phonics in shared reading and writing, both inside and outside the phonics lesson as well as across the curriculum. We have a strong focus on language development for our children because we know that speaking and listening are crucial skills for reading and writing in all subjects.
For more information on the intent, implementation and impact of our phonics program, see our Phonics and Early reading Policy below:
| Reading Home Readers newsletter | |
| Phonics and Early Reading policy | |
| Curriculum policy |
EYFS Long Term Overviews
Below are the long-term overviews of our Early Years Framework which is taught in the Reception year.
We monitor the impact of our curriculum:
Our school ethos is to best prepare children for life. We use assessment and pupil knowledge to ensure they leave us having achieved their best academic results as well as ensuring they are healthy and happy.
We monitor the impact of our curriculum for 4 clear purposes:
1. All pupils make progress
2. See where school priorities are emerging
3. Adapt future planning
4. To ensure all pupils are best prepared for the next stage in their educational journey.
Our policy has much more information about the wonderful way we teach the curriculum. To best prepare children to live life in all its fullness, by ensuring they are ready for the next steps in their educational journey
Relationship and Sex Education (RSE)
Please find attached a breakdown of how the following elements of RSE are intended to be delivered in each year group:
> Families and people who care for me
> Caring Friendships
> Respectful Relationships
> Online relationships
> Being Safe
> Sex Education
Please also see our Class Timetables for curriculum delivery information.
All plans are currently are subject to change, if you require any more information on our curriculum, do not hesitate to ask.