Caring - Learning – Excelling

At St Michael’s Church of England Primary School, our ambitious curriculum has been designed to take account
of the legal requirements of the Early Years Foundation Stage Curriculum and the Primary National Curriculum.

We pride ourselves in offering our pupils a broad, creative and exciting curriculum, which is delivered through
imaginative and knowledge-rich projects based around the Cornerstones Curriculum model of a thematic
approach. The curriculum is personalised to our school, exposing all of our children to enriching experiences,
immersing them in progressive knowledge and skills; equipping them with personal characteristics required to
succeed in life. Pupils study the full curriculum; it is not narrowed. There are many opportunities for
curriculum enrichment, including: music, choir, trips, residential visits, gardening, sports and a range of clubs
after school.

 

Our curriculum puts the child at the centre of learning, providing them with a wealth of learning challenges
that require them to use and build on their knowledge and skills base in order to be curious, confident and
independent life-long learners.

 

Our values are at the core of everything we do.
The key principles behind the design of our curriculum are for our children to:

- Be confident, independent and resilient; displaying a thirst for learning.
- Be kind; showing empathy and compassion whilst valuing diversity.
- Achieve academically across the entire curriculum, meeting at least the national expectation by the end of
their primary education.
- Be culturally knowledgeable about our country and our world.
- Have aspirations for the future and know that these can be reached through hard work and determination.
- Be well prepared for the challenges of the secondary school curriculum.

 

Ultimately, we want all of our children to be the best they can be, making a positive contribution to the world
they live in.