Intent
At Bramley Park Academy our curriculum is built so that every child has the opportunity to develop and grow, both academically and personally through exploration, creativity and discovery. We encourage our children to have high aspirations and strive to believe in, persevere with and achieve their goals. We want our children to be responsible, independent and effective learners by the time they leave us in year 6, ready for the next steps in their academic journey.
We have worked hard to develop a curriculum that provides a wide array of experiences and opportunities for our children and therefore our main drivers are:
- Provide exciting real life opportunities for our pupils, to ensure that they are stimulated and have a context to their learning.
- Use a wide range of cross-curricular links, providing connected learning, to allow children to become fully absorbed in their topic.
- Make relevant and meaningful links between topics and subjects that are fit for purpose and ignite the children’s desire to learn.
- Provide opportunity for topic links to core subjects, in order to provide as many opportunities for extended writing, linked to real life experiences.
- Enriched vocabulary created by immersive topics. This is enhanced by our personalised ‘Knowledge Organisers’ which have been created for all phases and year groups from EYFS to Y6.
- Provide ownership to both staff and pupils within their curriculum and topics. This is done by using KWL grids at the start of each topic to help inform planning for the topic and provide a purposeful and child-led topic.
- Create a learning environment where children are passionate, enthusiastic and keen to explore their topic by ensuring teachers are confident and enthusiastic about each topic.
- Is in line with expectations and objectives of the National Curriculum 2014. This has been reinforced with the introduction of ‘I can’ assessment sheets which are utilised and referred to by staff and students throughout each half-term.