Our Curriculum

Curriculum Intent:

At Marshfield Primary our school curriculum is built around the National Curriculum, key skills and, most importantly, the needs of our learners and school values.

We believe that every child has the right to an inspiring, engaging and meaningful curriculum that not only enables them to reach the highest academic standards, but enables them to thrive as citizens in tomorrow’s world.

Curriculum Implementation:

We review our curriculum annually and work together as a teaching team to ensure that every child in every class has had the opportunity to learn the knowledge and associated skills from the national curriculum at least once. We then enhance the curriculum further using 3 key drivers and children’s interests. Our curriculum drivers are reviewed annually and changed or adapted if needed. Our current drivers are:

Oracy: Oracy can be defined as the development of a person’s capacity to use spoken language to express their thoughts and communicate with others.  Language is fundamental to our ability to think and interact.  Good Oracy skills increase confidence, self-esteem and empathy, develops cognitive ability and academic success and improves social mobility, employability and citizenship. Our mission at Marshfield Primary School is to place Oracy at the heart of our curriculum. We want every child to develop their Oracy skills so they are equipped to thrive in the world they will be living in. 

Creativity: (the act of turning new and imaginative ideas into reality) children develop the ability to perceive the world in new ways, to find hidden patterns, to make connections between seemingly unrelated phenomena, and to generate solutions

Sustainability and Global Citizenship: children understand the world around them and their place within it. Children appreciate the diversity of our world and understand the responsibilities we all have. They take an active role in their community, and work with others to make our planet more equal, fair and sustainable

Our school year is split in to 6 term and ‘topics’ are covered on a termly basis. Every subject is taught across a year but not every subject is taught every term: this enables teachers and learners to fully engage with a subject area more intensely and develop richer and deeper understanding. Maths and English is taught daily and links with topics are made where they are deep and meaningful and add to learning. RE and PSHE are also taught termly and the values and skills from these areas flow into daily teaching allowing children to reflect on their learning, feelings and wellbeing. Additional opportunities such as visits to Life skills, Bikeability training and First Aid are an integral part of our provision.

Out teaching team works extremely hard to ensure that all of our children are taught and experience a curriculum that is inspiring, challenging and meaningful; preparing children for their futures.

Termly overviews can be found here.