Hughenden Primary School

Curriculum & Enrichment

Our Curriculum

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Curriculum Intent

At Hughenden Primary, we are developing a curriculum that is nurturing, progressive and connected.

Our school values an integrated, cross-curricular, creative curriculum, which allows children to develop emotionally, socially and academically. We take the values of the Hughenden C.H.E.E.R (Cooperation, Honesty, Enthusiasm, Empathy and Respect) and make sure that they feature in every aspect of our learning, as we are committed to developing the whole child. It is because of this, that we ensure our children have the opportunity to be creative, to be physically active as well as academically challenged.

Children are given regular opportunities to promote our core values across the school setting and demonstrate them in the wider community. We want our curriculum to be one that is accountable for not only the academic progress of our pupils but their emotional growth as well.

We use the National Curriculum as a valuable starting point to help develop inclusive and diverse learning experiences for all of our children. Each subject that we teach has clearly defined, incremental skills that both provide links and next steps for children not only within a given academic year, but across key stages as well.

Whilst valuing the individual skills that each subject area provides, our Hughenden Values Curriculum is designed to reflect real life, where the more connections between ideas are made, the more complete a person’s long-term understanding will become. We are continually reviewing and improving the learning opportunities we offer to our pupils. Our emphasis continues to be on developing a nurturing and inclusive curriculum that has high expectations for all our pupils, regardless of their starting point.

Hughenden Primary strives to be at the heart of our community, developing links with residents, organisations, businesses and schools to enrich the learning experiences of our pupils. We endeavour to create a flexible and inclusive curriculum that demonstrates the value of everyone in our community, forging links and promoting lasting cooperation from one academic year to another. At Hughenden Primary, we also value the environment, and we aim, through our curriculum, to teach respect and understanding for our world. We seek to teach how we should care for the environment for future generations, as well as our own.

We value the efforts and relationship we have with our families and work in partnership with them to enrich our curriculum. Families are informed about the curriculum through our regular Dojo feed, curriculum overviews, homework and workshops, and are positively encouraged to become involved. We believe we can make that difference, when we are working together, nurturing minds and empowering lives.

Curriculum Implementation

At Hughenden, we celebrate the ways in which all of our children are unique. Through a well-structured, joined up and inclusive curriculum, we use our Hughenden C.H.E.E.R to promote the views of everyone in our school. We believe that the development of children’s moral and spiritual development goes hand-in-hand with their academic, physical and mental health.

Our aim is to not only ensure the requirements of the national curriculum are taught, but to ensure our pupils understand their place within our diverse local community and the wider world. To ensure this, we actively seek opportunities to embed ourselves in community life and make enriching connections both nationally and internationally, through trips, visitors and projects that promote learning and empathy at a local and world level.

We aim to ensure that learning is cohesive and purposeful at all points. We plan our curriculum across three phrases: Foundation, Keystage 1 and Keystage 2. Within each subject area, subject co-ordinators work with practitioners to develop long term plans that reach across all three phases.

Subject Coordinators agree an overview for the whole school with each year group, which indicates what topics are to be taught in each term. Teachers, whilst following the prescribed topic areas and literature, are then free to adapt and modify the overarching plan to meet the needs of their class and substitute resources to enhance the children’s learning. Using their medium term plans, teachers find opportunities to make cross-curricular links across all subjects and plan for out of classroom learning opportunities. Our short-term plans are those that our teachers develop on a weekly basis, instilling our core C.H.E.E.R values throughout them.

Curriculum Impact

At Hughenden Primary, we have LAC's linked to all curriculum areas that understand our values and vision and support us by being robust and critical friends of the school. Our Head teacher is responsible for the overarching organisation and provision of our school’s curriculum. Working with our staff team, she and other members of SLT monitor our curriculum through classroom learning walks and coordinating with the subject leaders.

Senior Leaders monitor the way their subject area is taught throughout the school. They examine long-term and medium-term planning and ensure that it encompass our cross curricular approach. We have high expectations of children, regardless of their starting points when we work together, we can nurture minds and empower lives.

Curriculum Coverage

As part of the teaching and learning monitoring cycle, as a staff team, we share and discuss the planning, delivery, and outcomes of the curriculum coverage. Running alongside this, we have observations and learning walks to identify strengths and next steps across the teaching team.

The curriculum leader, Erica Horrocks, is working with the teachers to ensure appropriate curriculum progression both in terms of attainment coverage and skills progression.

Planning Aids for Curriculum Subjects

Maths	English	Phonics	Science	History	Geography
White Rose Curriculum	Planned sequence liked to key classroom text	Read, Write Inc.	Planned/ mapped topics supported by Oak National Academy	Planned/ mapped topics supported by Oak National Academy	Planned/ mapped topics supported by Oak National Academy
Art and Design Technology	Language - French	Music	Physical Education	Religious Education	PSHE
Kapow	Language Angels	Planned in line with peripatetic music teacher	Planned in line with PE co-ordinator and outside provider	Kapow (aligned with Buckinghamshire agreed syllabus)	Kapow

Curriculum Overviews

The curriculum overviews for each year group indicate the taught subjects for each term. These can be found within the Key Stage pages.

Foundation: Hughenden Primary School - Foundation

Key Stage 1: Hughenden Primary School - KS1

Key Stage 2: Hughenden Primary School - KS2

If you required further For information on our curriculum, then please contact the school office by emailing: office@hughendenprimary.co.uk

If parents/carers have any concerns over the content of the curriculum or wish to withdraw their child from any particular lesson, for example, RE, SRE or PSHE, then please do so by contacting your child's class teacher.