Curriculum at Elmsleigh
Our Overall Curriculum Intent and Objectives
At Elmsleigh Infant & Nursery School, our overall curriculum intent is to ensure that all children will achieve their full potential and become as independent as possible, preparing all pupils for their next stage in education. Through our curriculum objectives we want all children to be able to:
Enable every pupil to make the greatest possible progress and achieve the highest outcomes they can.
- Communicate as effectively as possible
- Be as independent as possible
- Self-regulate their emotions improving their ability to access learning and the community they live in
- Be as healthy as possible, in mind and body
- Follow an exciting, differentiated, broad and sequenced curriculum pathway, which has been designed to ensure that all children will grow to be the best they can be, reaching their full potential, educationally, socially and emotionally.
- Develop their sense of self and character through the school’s strong SMSC approach underpinned by the school/MAT values which are generic skills that are essential to life, learning and work.
- Be unique, creative, resilient and challenged to be the best they can be
- Welcome diversity, appreciate and understand different religions and cultures
- Forge and develop their own talents
Our Overall Curriculum Design and Implementation
Our curriculum has been designed into curriculum pathways which are fluid to enable pupils to move across pathways depending on the individual education they need. At the heart of each design is a clear curriculum vision for all types of learners. Each pathway is set to ensure that every child’s prior knowledge is built through precision teaching and first hand experiences. Some subjects are interwoven through a holistic curriculum but some subjects are taught discretely following a scheme. This scheme is always adapted to meet the needs of the children and is always taught sequentially with steps of progress recorded and built on. The implementation of our curriculum also supports our teachers who are teaching subjects where they are not specialists as all schemes provide CPD opportunities within them.
Within each pathway, the learning environments are purposeful and stimulating with enhanced enrichment opportunities and memorable moments, such as educational visits and theme days within school. These experiences excite and encourage life-long learners, building each child’s cultural capital. In addition to this and underpinning everything we deliver in school are our school and MAT values, which are centered around ‘Community, Respect, Resilience, Responsibility, Ambition and Compassion’. These values are taught and celebrated contributing to the children’s Spiritual, Moral, Social & Cultural Education.
Our overall Curriculum Impact
Every pathway ensures that every child makes the best possible progress and attainment. This is demonstrated in a variety of ways, through the summative assessment collated for each pathway, through children’s work in books, floor books and through tapestry. Alongside feedback provided by all stakeholders (children, parents/carers, Governors and the Esteem Multi Academy Trust’s School Improvement Team and staff), the school’s website and all of our school events which celebrate all of the children’s achievements.