The South Moreton Curriculum

At South Moreton Primary School, we embrace our mission statement:

“The World for our Children, Our Children for the World”.

Intent

Our curriculum is intended to:

• Offer the full range of National Curriculum subjects and the and full breadth of study within these
• Cater for the needs of all pupils, across all year groups
• Embed and develop our vision for South Moreton School through the 3 aspects of academic excellence, resilience and wellbeing, and global citizenship
• Go above and beyond the curriculum via our unique 'supercurricular layer' - the South Moreton Super Curriculum

Our curriculum

We follow the full National Curriculum, along with providing extra opportunities to enrich learning via the South Moreton Supercurriculum - a super-curricular layer that takes learning above and beyond the National Curriculum in every subject.

We sequence learning based on teaching children the ‘knowledge how’, enabling children to approach and engage with subject-specific knowledge content using an ever-widening and ever-deepening level of skill. For example, children in Year 6 will engage with knowledge content on the Ancient Egyptians in a different way to children in Year 3. This concept can be illustrated by the spiral model below, where children re-encounter skills each year (different colours on the spiral), building on previous learning and embedding knowledge in the long-term memory.

Other guiding principles for our curriculum design are:

• Knowledge ‘how’ content is specified in detail
• Knowledge ‘how’ is taught to be remembered, not merely encountered
• Knowledge ‘how’ is sequenced and mapped deliberately and coherently
• Knowledge ‘how’ provides a driving, underpinning philosophy

We use high quality education research, specifically Bloom’s Revised Taxonomy, to aid us in planning for depth and challenge, and to aid scaffolding for those who need additional support. Increasingly demanding tasks are built up across units of work and towards the end of the key stage.

More information on each subject can be found below:

• English
• Maths
• Science
• Computing (read alongside information on Unique Tech Opportunities)
• History
• Geography
• Art and Design
• Design and Technology
• Music
• Physical Education
• Modern Foreign Languages
• Personal, Social and Health Education
• Religious Education

If you have any questions about the curriculum at South Moreton Primary School, please do get in touch via the School Office at office.2566@south-moreton.oxon.sch.uk.

You can find out more about what our curriculum learning looks like in action via our Facebook Page:

 

 

 

 

Curriculum Maps: