At Peel Park Primary we aim to offer a rich and engaging school experience that is creative, inclusive and challenging.

We want our children to enjoy school, form friendships for life and become responsible, respectful young people.  Our curriculum is diverse, thought-provoking, creative, inspirational and immersed in memorable moments.

We aim that all of our learners will meet (or exceed) their potential academically, socially and emotionally with their families, ensuring that they become ambitious life-long learners.

Should you wish to see a copy of a progression document within a subject area, please contact school.

Curriculum Principles

Our curriculum aims ensure that all pupils experience a broad and balanced curriculum where key curriculum driver concepts are embedded into long-term memory. Children gain knowledge that is of use to them for the rest of their lives and curriculum enrichment ensures that all children are provided with a wealth of experiences.  Peel Park aims to develop successful learners with high aspirations who are challenged and know how to make a positive contribution to their community and the wider society. Our curriculum development is based on academic research and the cognitive science of how children learn and is designed using our teacher’s experience and knowledge to meet the needs of all our pupils.   

Curriculum Intent

• Core texts provide purposeful opportunities for Reading and Writing.
• Curriculum drivers (Science, Geography and History) and enhancers (Art, Design and Technology) provide children with a broad, balanced, sequential and ambitious curriculum. Our curriculum goes beyond the National Curriculum by including learning that is relevant to our own locality and the children’s own experiences. 
• All other areas of the curriculum such as: Mathematics, Computing, Music, Religious Education and Physical Education are taught discreetly and are interwoven where appropriate. 
• We provide children with knowledge that will be of use to them for the rest of their lives and close the divisions in society. We teach children to understand and live British Values and learn more about the best that has been thought and said over centuries. 
• Enrichment opportunities and overarching subject topics ensure children are experiencing curriculum breadth. 
• Subject concepts are thread through all year groups and ensure that children revisit these concepts over and over, building conceptual understanding and knowledge each year. 
• Subject concepts provide a clear progression model and supports the planning, delivery and assessment of children in the wider curriculum; ensuring that learning is a change to long-term memory. 
• A clearly sequenced curriculum allows children to make connections, build on prior knowledge and their experiences and ensures there is challenge and a clear journey within and across year groups.
• The wider curriculum provides opportunities for children to build their academic and subject specific vocabulary, write across a range of subjects and apply mathematical skills in other areas of the curriculum. 
• We nurture, encourage and develop empathy across our school with all of our learners. We are exploring the restorative approach to support our aims. 
• Parental involvement is an essential part of our curriculum as we celebrate the local area, learning new skills to enable the parents and children to take an active role in events throughout the year.  

Curriculum Implementation

• Our teachers ensure Mathematics, Writing and Reading are taught daily.
• Our curriculum design ensures the curriculum has planned units of work that revisit the key concepts for each of the curriculum drivers allowing children to make connections and deepen their understanding.
• The curriculum is designed so subject specific knowledge and skills are scaffolded within a thematic approach
• Our teachers ensure concepts are embedded and when cross-curricular links are made, they are done so in a way that strengthens children’s understanding through meaningful links.
• Pre and post learning tasks in the wider curriculum assist teachers in ascertaining what children already know and need to know.
• Teachers involve their pupils, allowing pupil-led questions to be interwoven into the units of study.
• Enrichment opportunities enhance experiences children have and are used to develop their understanding of the learning that is or has taken place.
• Retrieval practice is a key element of lessons to ensure knowledge is repeatedly retrieved from long-term memory.
• Teachers plan and tailor units of work/programmes of study to address specific cohort and individual needs of children.
• All staff have high expectations of themselves and their children, imparting knowledge and teaching skills accurately with enthusiasm.

Curriculum Impact 

• Our curriculum driver concepts mean that learning takes place over a long period of time; ensuring that knowledge is stored in children’s long- term memory.
• We compare pupil progress over time using the key concepts which provide a clear progression across KS1, LKS2 and UKS2.
• Children are able to make connections between subjects and can articulate their knowledge of their locality, the world and its history.
• Lesson visits, book studies, pupil conferencing, coaching and mentoring ensure that expectations are high, and teaching and learning is in line with the principles of our teaching and learning policy.
• Our pupils experience a broad and balanced curriculum and have the knowledge, experiences and skills needed to go on and succeed in their education and life in modern Britain.
• Children know, understand and live our core values of Aspiration, Respect, Independence, Courage, Happiness, Empathy, Resilience and Collaboration.