Overview

At Spooner Row Primary School we pride ourselves on offering a rich and broad curriculum that is contextualised to meet the needs of our learners.  Long term planning from KS1 - KS2 is mixed age and designed to be progressive as the children move through each phase of their learning.  We interleave knowledge, so that children deepen their understanding over time through all of the curriculum areas,  

We are proud to be working in partnership with Ark Curriculum Plus, to develop our practice in the teaching and learning of maths.  We collaborate across the trust as well as with a specialist development partner to ensure fidelity to the programme and extend our ambition for learners.  

The school used FFT's Success for All phonics programme to ensure a clear and progressive approach to the teaching of systematic synthetic phonics.  This programme comes with a robust intervention package called 'Lightening Squad' which helps ensure that every learner gets a flying start to their reading journey. 

We have a planned curriculum for the teaching of religious education that is designed to be inclusive and promote understanding of a wide range of faiths and beliefs.  Parents have a right to withdraw their children from some or all of these lessons, but should inform the school at the point of their child's admission.  

Our PSHE (Personal, Social and Health Education) and RSE (Relationships and Sex Education) lessons are extremely important as they teach our children how to keep themselves safe and healthy, promoting the values of positive relationships and an understanding of difference and diversity within these relationships.  Most of our relationship and sexual health teaching is embedded in our wide curriculum, including science, however if we are teaching content specific to sexual health and relationships, we share this information in advance with families so that they can view and understand the content and make an informed decision as to whether they would like their child to access this learning in school.  

If you would like to find our more about our school's curriculum, please speak to your child's class teacher, or make an appointment via the school office to speak to Mr Seager or Mr Fleckney.