Our Curriculum Intent
At Banwell Primary School, our curriculum is challenging and ambitious, promoting passion and resilience. It is progressively sequenced to allow children to build upon prior knowledge, and develop an overarching narrative of the subjects we teach. In turn, children will develop a strong work ethic and interpersonal skills as well as becoming independent, creative and critical thinkers.
Within our school community, we celebrate and welcome differences: every child is recognised as a unique individual. Our curriculum is relevant and accessible to all learners, yet adaptable to ensure inclusivity. We believe every child deserves a challenging, broad and balanced curriculum that is underpinned by teaching of the basic knowledge, skills, concepts and values that they will need to become proficient both academically and socially.
We strive to engage children in their learning through promoting curiosity, imagination and a thirst for new experiences and knowledge. We endeavour to ensure all of our children feel happy and safe to explore the unfamiliar and ask questions. We promote a growth mind-set and are invested in guiding children as they develop the values and skills required to take responsibility for their own learning, both now and in the future.
We aim to give children the best possible start on their learning journey with an Early Years environment that promotes a love of reading and writing through a rigorous systematic synthetic phonics programme, within a nurturing, stimulating setting.
Children leave the school with a sense of belonging to a tight-knit community where they have had the confidence and skills to make decisions, reflect upon their choices and make connections. Our children will be well-equipped and prepared to continue their learning journey within a dynamic, diverse and ever-changing world. Through the curriculum at Banwell Primary School, all children will be equipped with the powerful knowledge and skills they need to succeed.
Curriculum Rationale
Our curriculum provides children with opportunities to view the world from different perspectives, helping them to understand that a geographer would view the same landscape through a different lens than a poet, a historian, an artist...
By providing children with the chance to look at the world from these varying viewpoints, they will become immersed in the subject specialisms, whilst we recognize that our children are novices in their learning of each subject, not experts. Children will know the National Curriculum subjects as disciplines to be studied and as fields of knowledge that can shape their outlook now and in the future. In addition, they will understand the role of people who work in these fields, appreciating their contributions, knowing that they could, should they wish to, have a career in any of these subjects in the future.
If you would like additional information on any area of the curriculum, please contact your child's class teacher or the relevant subject lead.
