At Sharlston Community School, our aim is to offer a broad and balanced curriculum, providing opportunities for all our children to gain the essential knowledge, skills and understanding which will enable them to flourish and reach their full potential in life. Our curriculum equips them to further develop and deepen this knowledge and will ensure that all children have equal access to the breadth and depth of our offer regardless of need or disadvantage.
All members of our school community have high expectations and ambitions for learning and will work together to ensure maximum impact on the development and application of knowledge and skills. The curriculum is designed to enable learners to acquire relevant subject knowledge which underpins the application of skills. Skills are carefully and progressively mapped across each key stage and subject area. Each subject is carefully planned and component knowledge builds progressively from the early years. Substantive knowledge and disciplinary knowledge is carefully placed to support all children to develop greater understanding. Regular review and retrieval practice is mapped in by teachers to support children in knowing more and remembering more. Links are made with prior learning and across subjects to ensure that children make strong connections to support them with their learning.
Through our school curriculum we teach our children to:
Learning
- Engage in their learning
- Develop Independence
- Be Confident and Ambitious learners
- Show Resilience
- Take pride in their in themselves and their work.
Citizenship
- Value themselves, other and the world
- Celebrate differences
- Take care of their physical and mental wellbeing
- Be caring, considerate and tolerant.
Communication
- Engage in wider experiences
- To Develop a lifelong love of reading
- Communicate their learning, ideas thoughts and feelings effectively.