Curriculum Vision and Intent
Our School Vision
The whole school community at Lawley have high expectations for our children, and strive to ensure they leave school as confident, polite and independent young people, with the appropriate skills, values and learning to become successful in whatever their future will be. We aspire to instil in all our children a desire to never stop learning and to have the courage to succeed in whatever they do, across all areas of school life and beyond. At Lawley we are ‘Planting the seeds, growing the future.’
Our curriculum intent
Our vision, “planting the seeds, growing the future”, is at the heart of the curriculum at Lawley Primary School. Our curriculum is designed to be ambitious, inclusive and aspirational for all pupils, ensuring every child can succeed and flourish.
At Lawley, our curriculum is underpinned by a clear intent to develop independent, confident and resilient learners who possess the knowledge, skills and vocabulary they need to achieve well, both academically and personally. We aim to equip pupils with a secure foundation of essential knowledge, progressively built over time, so that learning is meaningful, connected and prepares them effectively for the next stage of their education.
Our curriculum promotes high expectations and strong progression, carefully sequenced so that new learning builds logically on prior knowledge. It is designed to broaden pupils’ cultural capital, enabling them to develop an understanding of the wider world and their place within it, and to make a positive contribution to their community and wider society.
Our core values of happiness, respect, courage, friendship and responsibility are woven throughout the curriculum and school life. We believe that pupil wellbeing is integral to academic success, and our curriculum supports pupils to develop positive attitudes to learning, resilience in the face of challenge and confidence to take risks.
Learning experiences across the curriculum are engaging, purposeful and enriched, offering pupils opportunities to apply knowledge through practical, hands-on learning where appropriate. Teaching focuses on the development of essential skills, key concepts and subject-specific knowledge, while fostering curiosity, creativity and enjoyment in learning.
Overall, our curriculum is designed to ensure that all pupils leave Lawley Primary School well prepared for the next stage of education and for life beyond the classroom, equipped with the knowledge, skills and personal qualities needed to thrive in a rapidly changing world.
Our curriculum implementation
Our context rich curriculum, which has high expectations for all, is mapped to include full coverage of the National and EYFS curriculum. It provides a range of learning experiences for our children, both in school and out, giving memorable experiences alongside rich opportunities for high quality learning and wider personal development and well-being. Examples include: lessons, topic days, outdoor learning, school parliament, clubs, sports, trips and visits, workshops and residentials. We value a cross-curricular approach to learning which supports children in making links and embedding learning in their long-term memory. Our ultimate goal being that they progress academically and become confident, polite and independent young people, with the appropriate skills, values and learning to become successful in whatever their future will be.
We have developed our curriculum so that it not only teaches the knowledge appropriate to the year group, but also the skills children need to enable them to be successful learners. It is designed to support children with retention of subject knowledge and to develop long-term memory skills so that they continually build on their knowledge and skills in order that they know more, remember more and can do more.
For all year groups, we have long term overviews that map out the knowledge and skills progression of the broad and balanced curriculum offer. The curriculum offer is implemented in a consistent manner by ensuring that excellence in teaching enables children to succeed in whatever they do, across all areas of school life and beyond.
In order to ensure that progression and balance is maintained, we have clear, progressive subject progression maps. These planning documents are succinct and allow learning to be built on each year with clear identification of skills and knowledge. In addition to these progressive documents, subject statements clearly identify the intent, implementation and impact of each subject.
