Christ Church CE Primary School

Curriculum

At Christ Church our curriculum offer for all children follows the breadth of the National Curriculum and Development Matters in the EYFS. We continually strive to ensure our curriculum is ambitious and designed to give all learners, particularly the most disadvantaged and those with special educational needs and disabilities, the knowledge and cultural capital they need to succeed as local, national and global citizens.

As a result of the taught curriculum, children know more and remember more.

Intent

Our Inclusive & Ambitious Vision 🤝🚀

At Christ Church, our curriculum is inclusive, ambitious and designed to meet the needs of every child. It follows the National Curriculum and the EYFS Framework, providing a strong foundation for lifelong learning and success. We place a high priority on oracy and vocabulary development, recognising that confident communication and a rich vocabulary underpin learning across all areas. Our curriculum builds foundational knowledge that enables pupils to make connections, deepen understanding and apply their learning meaningfully across subjects.

A Sequenced & Progressive Journey 📈🎯

Learning is carefully sequenced and progressive, with clear end points that guide children from the early years through to the end of Key Stage 2. Each subject is structured to ensure cumulative progression of knowledge and skills, supporting pupils to know more, remember more and do more over time.

Evidence-Informed & Context-Focused 🔍🏡

Our approach is evidence-informed and context-aware. We draw on educational research and our understanding of the local community to ensure learning is relevant, engaging, and purposeful. All pupils, including those with SEND and those who are disadvantaged, are supported to access the full curriculum and achieve highly.

Reading at the Heart ❤️📖

At the heart of our curriculum is a rigorous and systematic approach to reading. We prioritise early reading and phonics to ensure every child becomes a confident, fluent reader. Reading is central to learning across the curriculum and to nurturing imagination, empathy and a love of literature.

Core Values & Preparation for Life ✨🌟

Through our broad, balanced, and enriching curriculum, we aim to develop pupils who embody our core values of community, hope, resilience, integrity, service and thoughtfulness. These values shape our school culture and prepare children to thrive as kind, curious, and capable individuals, ready for the next stage of their education and for life beyond school.

 

Implementation

Christian Foundation, Spirituality & Citizenship ⛪🌍

As a Church of England school, the Christian faith is the bedrock of everything we do. Our curriculum equips learners with the knowledge and understanding to make positive choices, widen horizons and cultivate high aspirations as local, national and global citizens. We firmly believe that With God, all things are possible (Matthew 19:26).

To live out this vision, our curriculum acts as:

  • A Window 🪟 through which children look out to learn about and marvel at the wonder of the wider world.

  • A Mirror 🪞 that allows them to reflect inwardly, discovering their own unique talents and seeing their place in the world.

  • A Door 🚪 which opens to empower them to step out, take positive action and make a meaningful change in the world.

High-Quality, Evidence-Informed Teaching 📈📚

We achieve a high-quality, ambitious curriculum by ensuring our teaching practices are rigorous and evidence-informed. We achieve this through:

  • Expert Staff Development: Supporting teachers and subject leaders through targeted professional development, coaching and engaging with educational research, as well as working with outside expertise to strengthen subject leadership, to ensure expert delivery across all subjects.

  • Effective Lesson Design: Incorporating modelling, retrieval practice and formative assessment alongside effective scaffolding, the use of visuals and careful adaptations to ensure all pupils know more, remember more and do more. Consistent oracy practices are embedded throughout our lessons to deepen understanding and articulation of learning.

  • Inclusive Access: Adapting lessons, utilising pre-teaching and using practical resources to ensure that all learners, including those with SEND and those who are disadvantaged, are able to access tasks and experience success in line with their peers.

  • A Culture of Reading: Ensuring reading is at the heart of all subjects through our carefully-chosen, high-quality curriculum reading spine, building on a strong foundation of systematic synthetic phonics and early reading.

  • Sequenced Progression: Mapping knowledge, skills and explicit vocabulary links carefully to ensure learning is cumulative and progressive across all subjects and key stages.

  • Oracy Focus: Prioritising oracy and vocabulary development as primary features of the classroom environment, promoting confident communication at every opportunity.

Nurturing the Whole Child 🌱💪

We meet the diverse needs of our children by nurturing the whole child, providing exceptional pastoral support that removes barriers to learning. Through targeted interventions in 'The Nook', church-supported 'Here to Listen' sessions and a deeply embedded 'Power of Yet' mindset, we build the resilience and confidence pupils need to safely embrace challenges and achieve highly.

Health, Wellbeing & Personal Development 🏃‍♂️🧠

To deliver a truly broad and balanced curriculum, we place a high priority on the physical health, mental wellbeing and personal development of our school community:

  • Enrichment Beyond the Classroom: We offer a diverse range of extra-curricular sports and activity clubs after school hours to promote physical health and lifelong positive lifestyle choices.

  • A Purposeful PSHE Curriculum: We provide structured opportunities for children to discuss and learn about personal health, safety, relationships (including anti-bullying), diversity, equality and aspirations.

  • Community Partnerships: We collaborate closely with local places of worship, charities and community groups to enrich the curriculum with meaningful learning experiences outside the classroom.

Leadership & Specialist Expertise 🎓🏫

Subject leaders play a pivotal role in both the design and delivery of their subject areas, ensuring clear progression underpinned by a robust assessment system. To further enrich our broad and balanced curriculum, music and sports specialists work alongside teaching staff to enhance curriculum delivery.

Partnering with Parents and Carers 🏡🤝

We are committed to working in close partnership with parents and carers, recognising that strong, positive links between home and school secure the very best outcomes for our pupils.

 

Impact

Academic & Personal Growth 📈✨

From their individual starting points, all children make strong progress academically, emotionally, creatively, socially and physically. Cumulative knowledge, understanding and skills are deeply embedded and secured, enabling pupils to achieve highly and reach their full potential. This ensures they are fully prepared for a successful transition to secondary school and for life beyond primary school.

The Christ Church Graduate 🎓🚀

When pupils leave Christ Church Primary School, they will be:

  • Confident & Effective Communicators: Possessing a rich vocabulary and strong oracy skills that allow them to articulate their ideas clearly, listen to others and build successfully on their primary foundations with a lifelong thirst for learning.

  • Ambitious & Resilient Learners: Embodying a positive, 'Power of Yet' mindset that motivates them to safely embrace challenges, celebrate their own unique abilities and passionately strive to be the very best they can be.

  • Values-Driven & Responsible Citizens: Guided by our core values to be socially, morally, spiritually and culturally responsible individuals who understand their role and seek to make a positive contribution on a local, national and global scale.

  • Inclusive & Empathetic Individuals: Cultivating a strong sense of self-awareness alongside the ability to form meaningful relationships based upon mutual respect and trust, whilst actively recognising and celebrating difference in the wider world.

Curriculum Information

 

Curriculum Overviews 2025-26
Please click on the images below to learn more about the different subjects in our Curriculum Offer.         

 

 

If you are interested in finding out more about our curriculum, please click here to contact the school office to arrange to speak to our Curriculum Lead, Mrs Guest.

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