Abingdon Primary SchoolOur Curriculum
At Abingdon Primary School, we recognise our school context and have designed our curriculum with the intent that pupils build the secure foundations required to become successful and aspirational adults who seek opportunities, take responsibilities as moral citizens and gain life experiences that extend their horizons. We want children to leave school as ‘well rounded’ individuals.
The school values ‘Respect, Resilience, Responsibility’ are interwoven within our curriculum intent and design. We also have 3 Drivers for our curriculum based on our school context:
Role models of different protected characteristics
Accessing our Local Area and the Wider World
The Power of Word
We have interwoven role models in terms of scientists/explorers/ artists/ engineers etc into our learning. We ensure that the people that we study show a range of protected characteristics to add interest and familiarity as well as offering that aspirational aspect. We ensure that we make the most of our local area in our curriculum, but we also want our children to experience more therefore we also look at different places around the world in a variety of different ways. Books are threaded throughout our curriculum, so that the children can access different styles of writing and find the syle that appeals to them, but we plan in opportunities for the children to use the power of word in poetry, debates, performances, the vocabulary they choose and many more ways!
We work on a 2 year cycle. In 2024-25 we are on cycle B
Curriculum Aims
We aim to provide a coherent, structured, academic curriculum, which is knowledge rich and skills driven, that will lead to sustained mastery for all with unlimited aspiration. We offer an exciting curriculum which has meaning to our pupils and context.
Our curriculum sets out:
- A clear curriculum map of the breadth of topics to be covered for each year group. This ensures each teacher has clarity about what to cover. As well as providing the key knowledge within the subjects, it also develops pupils’ cultural capital.
- The key concepts that will be taught through each subject area. These are the key skills that are developed within subjects, which are then revisited within the teaching of a range of topics and a range of contexts. This enables children to make links within learning.
- Progression within the skills