"It is our aim to provide an ambitious, modern day curriculum that actively prepares the pupils of St Paul's for the lives ahead of them. Learning at St Paul's will provide pupils with opportunities to develop personally and academically and will systematically build upon what they know, understand and can do.
We want a bright future for our children, and strive to achieve a curriculum that equips each unique individual with the strength of character and resources to make their own decisions about who they want to be."
Curriculum Intent
At St Paul's, children are immersed in a curriculum that is purposeful, ambitious, engaging and empowering, providing a depth of knowledge across all subjects through rich learning experiences. We believe that knowledge is fundamental to success; through carefully planned learning, our pupils are able to know more, remember more and do more as they progress through the curriculum.
We endeavor to make our curriculum as engaging and practical as possible, as we believe this will support pupils' learning and understanding of the wider world. We have made deliberate choices with links across subjects to enable opportunities for pupils to make meaningful links in their learning, and have many opportunities to revisit and recap prior knowledge, to ensure it is truly embedded.
The curriculum is carefully and deliberately sequenced to allow pupils to build upon and develop previous knowledge, whilst engaging with new content and providing opportunities to interleave. The curriculum at St Paul’s supports pupils’ spiritual, moral, social and cultural development, in addition to their physical development, promoting responsibility for pupils’ own health.
Our curriculum allows pupils to develop the skills and knowledge required for successful application throughout St Paul’s by promoting the learning and development of our youngest children in Nursery and Reception to ensure they have a solid foundation for Key Stage One, Two and further.
Curriculum Values
These curriculum aims are underpinned by our school values:
- At St Paul’s C of E Primary School our mission is to ‘Make a Difference to Everyone’ by:
- Embedding Christian values
- Expecting all members of our school to ‘Walk the St Paul’s Walk’ by being kind, staying safe and always doing their best
- Engaging pupils in an exciting, experiential education which develops a lifelong love of learning
- Equipping children and their families for the journey of life
- Establishing a responsibility for sustaining the environment
Curriculum Implementation
Whole School Overviews
These overviews provide a snap-shot of the planned curriculum content across the whole school.
| Reception Autumn 1 | Year 1 Autumn 1 | Year 2 Autumn 1 | |
| Year 3 Autumn 1 | Year 4 Autumn 1 | Year 5 Autumn 1 | Year 6 Autumn 1 |
Our curriculum program has been carefully planned to ensure that pupils have opportunities to revisit key knowledge and skills across each year they are with us. This ensures that pupils are exposed to the statutory curriculum content in each Key Stage whilst with enough time to delve deeper into subjects and topics, whilst making cross curricular links, where appropriate.
Curriculum content has been sequenced across each phase, Northgate (N/R), Eastgate (1/2), Southgate (3/4) and Westgate (5/6) and is evidenced through Subject Pathways. These documents sequence learning from Early Years to the end of Key Stage 2, breaking down each curriculum component into smaller, manageable outcomes, each one building upon the knowledge of the previous phase. These Subject Pathways have been developed with our pupils in mind, understanding what pupils already know at the start of their journey at St Paul’s and what they need to know in order to succeed.
The content of the Subject Pathways has been carefully sequenced to ensure progression across phases, but also within subject content, therefore teachers assess pupils’ prior knowledge and target their teaching appropriately, ensuring all pupils succeed. In order for our curriculum to stay relevant and meaningful to pupils, the subject content has been sequenced but the focus or overarching key question remains fluid; this ensures opportunity for learning to be focused for the current needs of each cohort whilst ensuring subject content is sequential and rigorous.
Our approach to Learning in Nursery and Reception (Northgate)
At St Paul’s C of E Primary School & Nursery we offer a curriculum rich in wonder and memorable experiences. We work hard to provide a stimulating environment that provides exciting opportunities, promotes challenge, exploration, adventure and a real love of learning.
It is our intent that all children develop physically, verbally, socially, cognitively and emotionally from their start with us at school. We aim to create the atmosphere of ‘family’ so that the children grow up as confident, responsible members of the larger community, and are recognised for their own talents and for being individual. We work in close partnership with families to that together, children are valued, respected and encouraged to reach their full potential in all that they do.
Please click the links below to see the progression of learning across Early Years at St Paul's C of E Primary School & Nursery
Progression in Learning
Design Technology Subject Pathway
Please see our Subject Pages for a more detailed outline of progression in each subject.
