What are the key aims and values underpinning our curriculum?

At St John Bosco Catholic Primary School,  we believe in providing all children with the very best teaching and learning experience so that our school’s mission statement ’Enjoy, Embrace, Excel’ becomes a reality. Underpinned by our Gospel values,  we aim to provide a curriculum that engages, enriches and excites our children as learners, whilst also developing their confidence, curiosity, wellbeing and resilience. We pride ourselves on having happy children who love learning through a variety of mediums and who are prepared to ‘Have a go’ at all of the opportunities presented to them.

What principles underpin the delivery of our curriculum?

We firmly believe that our ability to provide our children with a broad, balanced and knowledge rich curriculum, delivered using a topic/thematic approach were real links between subjects are valued, engages and excites all children and provides opportunities for deeper learning so that they they can achieve their full potential and become future citizens we can be proud of. Our curriculum fulfils all of the statutory requirements of the National Curriculum 2014 and much more. We aim to deliver a connected curriculum which ensures that children make progress throughout  their learning journey, making links between areas of learning and ultimately between themselves and the world around them. We ensure that we explore concepts deeply and make every effort to give children the language and vocabulary to engage with learning, within the classroom and beyond. We enrich the curriculum with first-hand experiences such as trips, visits or speakers with the intention of providing knowledge and skills, as well as building aspirations for future life.

Curriculum Impact

We have three main intentions when it comes to measuring the impact of our curriculum.

Intention 1: To develop our learner’s learning

We strive to ensure that our children’s attainment in core and foundation subjects is in line with or exceeding their age related expectations when we consider the varied starting points of children. We measure this carefully using a range of materials which is supported by what children have learned and what learning they have retained. We intend that the impact is that children will be academically and physically prepared for the next phase of their education and that they develop learning behaviours so they don’t give up, are highly motivated to succeed and achieve and are equipped with all the personal skills to do this.

Intention 2: To develop the character and spirituality of our learners in line with our Christian Values

The impact will be that our learners will have fully rounded characters with a clear understanding of complex values like equality, friendship, trust and many others. Only by really learning what these mean will our learners be able to develop a character that prepares them for living in the community demonstrating tolerance and equality. We measure this not just by the work our children produce, but in the behaviours we see each and every day in all learners on the playground, in the corridor, and in the many roles we give them. The impact of this intention is seen in the daily interaction of all members of our school community

Intention 3: To develop the moral compass of our learners

Our learners will be motivated by a strong personal sense of morality. They will make decisions for the right reasons and in the best interests of their community. They will be able to decide what is right and what is wrong, and will be resilient to the influence of others. They will go out into the world and make a difference in their own life and to others. Our learners will be the owners of their own destinies.

As a school we firmly believe that the role we have in our children’s lives follows the message from the Gospel according to John (John 10:10)

"I have come so that they may have life and have it to the full".

John 10:10