Curriculum

"The engaging, courageous and challenging curriculum is a powerful expression of the vision. This leads to pupils who are inspired to triumph in their chosen goals." — SIAMS report, 2026

Our Curriculum Intent

School vision statement: Growing together in wisdom and love; discovering life in all its fullness.

A thousand years ago, our small town was the first capital city of all England. Today, it hosts an international community of 3000 designers and engineers, at a world class research facility. Many are parents, some are governors. We soak up their expertise and spirit of innovation, combining it with the timeless beauty of the ancient and the traditional, to create the future.

Our vision is to create a learning culture that ignites young minds and gives them limitless opportunities in the twenty-first century. Today's children live in a digital age; our curriculum responds and adapts to the continuous changes in our technology-enhanced environment and society, whilst adhering to our core values of LOVE, COURAGE, RESPECT, KINDNESS, INDEPENDENCE AND CREATIVITY.

Every member of staff is engaged in dreaming, defining and delivering one key aspect of that vision: building 'Citizens of the Future.'

We Aim To… / In order to achieve these aims, our curriculum will:

Encourage and develop the joy of learning in all children. → Be creative, vibrant and engaging.
Prepare children for the future, enabling them to fulfil their potential and develop as rounded individuals. → Support and enable the highest quality learning experiences. Challenge children to excel personally, creatively, physically, academically.
Enable children to integrate new learning into their existing understanding. → Provide clear progression. Link learning across subject boundaries.
Value children, respecting and celebrating each one as unique. → Be rooted in our values. Be adapted and personalised in order to ensure equal access for all learners. Include high quality personal, social and health education. Provide religious education in line with our Christian foundation and nurture children's spiritual development.
Enable children to be confident users of technology: to learn, to create and to express themselves. → Continually innovate in our use of the latest technology. Teach children to master technology, harnessing its power while knowing how to avoid its dangers.
Root learning in real world experiences. → Capitalise on the resources of the local community and surrounding area. Plan for learning to take place outdoors.

Curriculum overview by year group (termly themes)

Below is a curriculum overview outlining the theme for each term. Termly curriculum newsletters are sent home explaining what will be covered and how parents can support their child at home.

Click here to see an overview of this year's curriculum.

Curriculum booklets / downloads

Further parent-support documents are available to download below, including spelling and reading guidance and a letter about helping your child with their reading.

Religious education and collective worship

The school teaches children about a range of faiths. Christianity forms approximately 60% of the curriculum, with Islam and Judaism being the main other religions taught. We also teach units on Sikhism, Hinduism, non-religious viewpoints and on cross-religious themes such as 'Festivals'.

Download the RE curriculum overview here:

Parents and carers have the right to withdraw their child from all or part of religious education and collective worship. If you are considering this, please speak to the Headteacher.

Remote learning

If a class or the school had to close for more than a day, we would set learning for children. We would do this by messaging through Arbor, and would use Microsoft Teams to deliver video lessons. If a pupil cannot attend school we will set learning individually, although this is not the case if pupils take term time holidays, as explained in our absence guidance notes.