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Our School's Curriculum Approach

Our curriculum is designed to:

• Be inclusive, so that all pupils can achieve their full potential.
• Provide a clear progression in skills and knowledge.
• Raise pupil’s self-esteem and confidence.
• Include a range of first-hand experiences.
• Encourage engagement with the local community.
• Foster Catholic virtues, social skills and awareness of effective citizenship.
• Promote fundamental British values.

Our curriculum offers a range of first-hand experiences

Curiosity is a key driver for children’s learning. We recognise that many of our children do not have the same exposure to experiences that other children benefit from, so our curriculum is planned to provide opportunities for experiential learning and wider experiences relating to cultural capital.  We ensure children’s learning, where possible, is based on first-hand experiences, visitors to school who inspire curiosity, and trips to places of interest that ensure children have experience of the knowledge they are being taught.

Our curriculum encourages engagement with the local community

Inclusivity is an important value for our school and we encourage children to be aware of ways they can be part of their local community. Our local area is used as a vehicle for learning about many curricular areas, e.g. local history and geographical features, which encourage children to appreciate where they live and to gain relevant knowledge.

Our curriculum is inclusive, so that all pupils can achieve their full potential

Our Aspiration for our pupils means we set high expectations for every child, encouraging them to grasp opportunities and be proud of their achievements in all aspects of school life. Our curriculum provides a clear progression in skills and knowledge in order to learn effectively, the taught curriculum is carefully mapped out to ensure the long-term acquisition of skills.

Our curriculum fosters Catholic virtues and develops the social skills and awareness needed to be an effective citizen

Our key value of Love is an important aspect of developing children socially and emotionally, learning to build strong relationships with one another and resolving conflicts in a restorative way. It is important that children learn to Respect the views and feelings of others, and that adults model this behaviour too. This prepares them for becoming valuable members of society.

Our curriculum, school values, and our wider school life enable our pupils to learn and grow, and prepare them to be self-assured and confident as they go into the next stage of their education and then on into adulthood.  We provide our pupils with a wide variety of knowledge about the world they live in, as well as academic, creative and social skills.  We nurture them into becoming independent learners and good decision-makers. 

At the Rosary School our curriculum is built around the National Curriculum core and foundation subjects (see further reading section below).  We teach these subjects through a relevant, engaging and contextual curriculum, across all year groups.  We pride ourselves in being an inclusive school, and value all pupils, whatever their learning styles and talents.  Our curriculum is designed to ensure that all pupils can fully engage with learning.  

Promoting Fundamental British Values

There are five British values: democracy, rule of law, individual liberty, mutual respect and tolerance.  As an academy we work to ensure that young people are prepared for life in modern Britain by:

• ensuring that we have a clear strategy for embedding fundamental British values, and evidencing how we do this

• challenging opinions or behaviours in schools that are contrary to fundamental British values

• enabling students to develop their self-knowledge, self-esteem and self-confidence

• enabling students to distinguish between right and wrong and to respect the civil and criminal law in England

• encouraging students to accept responsibility for their behaviour, show initiative, and to understand how they can contribute positively to the lives of those living and working in the locality of the school and to society more widely

• enabling students to acquire a broad general knowledge of and respect for public institutions and services in England

• encouraging respect for other people

• encouraging respect for democracy and support participation in the democratic process, including respect for the basis on which the law is made and applied in England.

We demonstrate that it is right to be respectful and tolerant of other beliefs and views, and of other faiths, races and cultures.  We teach our pupils to identify and combat discrimination.  We also teach our pupils that while different people may hold different views about what is ‘right’ and ‘wrong’, all people living in England are subject to its law.

Please click on the document below to find out more about how we incorporate British values into our broader curriculum.

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Remote Learning

Although this is no longer a requirement, we have published information on our remote learning provision. Please go to our Remote Education page. 

Click here to visit our Further Learning Resources page, where we have links to our schools digital remote learning platforms and a range of additional home learning resources.