Our Merton Bank Curriculum
Merton Bank Primary School Statement of Curriculum Intent
Merton Bank Primary Schools vision is ‘never less than our best.’ Through our curriculum we give our children the opportunities to live our vision. We develop confidence, skills, respect and knowledge which enable our children to develop their attitudes to learning and to be the well-rounded children they need to be to flourish and to ensure that they are the best they can be in school and in society.
We believe passionately in a curriculum that meets the needs of our school community. Our curriculum blends skills, knowledge and values that we believe are right for our children. We aim for our children to leave our school as confident young people with a strong knowledge base, a range of life skills and to be ready for the next stages of their lives.
Our curriculum is built around reading, writing and Maths, every day, to ensure that all pupils acquire the basic skills for learning and life.
Literacy is used to compliment the teaching of other subjects but its basic aim is to raise pupil attainment in spoken language, reading, writing, grammar, punctuation and spelling. Language acquisition and development is one of the main focus areas. We are committed to creating a language rich environment in all areas of the curriculum. Mathematics is taught mainly as a discrete subject but where possible we celebrate Maths in other areas of the curriculum and show where maths is everywhere. Teachers skilfully plan these opportunities to ensure pupil understands across the curriculum.
Context is important for our children and we ensure that they understand how their learning fits into the bigger picture of their lives. Each small part of the journey is only complete when they leave us in year 6. We aim to inspire our children and ensure that they are ambitious and feel they can do anything. This is supported by a broad range of opportunities such as launches, whole school events, outdoor learning, PE, Sports competitions, Music and MFL. Children throughout their time at Merton bank have opportunities to take part in a number of creative and sporting extra-curricular clubs such as Football, Rugby, Choir, Green fingers, Cheerleading and Art as well as play competitive sport and take part in a wide variety of events celebrating the arts.
Our curriculum is bespoke for our school community. During the year we give our children many opportunities to experience learning outside of the classroom with curriculum launches where the children spend a day learning about the subject through a school trip, school visitors or a special in class learning day. This enables the teachers to engage and inspire the children and then plan the curriculum around the experiences they have. Continuity and progression is vital to our curriculum. Using knowledge folders the children learn key knowledge so throughout their time in school they can refer back to the folders and the knowledge needed for maximum learning so we don’t miss a vital piece to the jigsaw of our children’s learning This runs alongside the national curriculum requirements but our main driver is experiences and what our children need to learn to enable them to thrive, be engaged and be inspired.
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