Curriculum Overview
At Spooner Row, we aim to provide a broad, ambitious and inspiring curriculum that nurtures curiosity, confidence and a love of learning. Our curriculum is shaped by our core values: Be Respectful, Be Resilient, Be Ready, Be You. These values underpin every lesson, every subject and every experience, guiding pupils to become thoughtful, determined and self-aware learners who are well prepared for life beyond primary school.
English
English sits at the heart of our curriculum. In the Early Years, we use Fantastic Foundations to build strong early language and literacy skills. Children develop rich vocabulary through purposeful talk, learn to construct oral sentences and begin to record their ideas in writing. This approach supports confident communication and prepares children for a successful transition into more formal reading and writing.
In Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2, we follow the Literacy Tree programme. This high-quality, book-based curriculum uses exceptional children’s literature to inspire learning. The Teach Through a Text approach ensures pupils deepen comprehension, build critical reading skills and develop vocabulary within meaningful contexts. Writing is purposeful and audience-aware, with grammar, punctuation and spelling taught seamlessly through the study of carefully selected texts. Literacy Tree provides a consistent, ambitious pathway that nurtures thoughtful readers and expressive, skilled writers.
Mathematics
In Mathematics, we use MyMastery and adopt a whole-school mastery approach. This approach ensures all pupils develop the key aims of the National Curriculum: fluency, reasoning and problem solving. Underpinning this pedagogy is the belief that every child can achieve in maths with the right support, challenge and depth of understanding.
Teaching focuses on conceptual understanding, using powerful representations and structures that allow children to make connections and build secure mathematical foundations. Mastery strategies enable sustained and deep learning, with pupils developing the independence, confidence and competence needed to apply their skills in a range of contexts. Our aim is that every child becomes a resilient, reflective and capable mathematician who can think logically and apply their learning to the wider world.
Foundation Subjects
We use the Kapow Primary scheme of work across almost all foundation subjects, ensuring consistent progression, high-quality teaching resources and rich learning experiences. Kapow’s curriculum is carefully mapped to the National Curriculum and provides clear, sequenced learning from Early Years through Key Stage 2. This ensures thorough coverage of knowledge and skills across art and design, design and technology, computing, languages, geography, history, music, RE and RSE & PSHE.
Each Kapow subject hub offers long-term overviews, progression documents and curriculum-mapping tools to support purposeful planning and coherent subject development. Lessons include ready to use resources, engaging activities and built-in CPD videos that enable both specialists and non-specialists to teach with confidence. Kapow follows a spiral curriculum, meaning key concepts are revisited and deepened over time, helping pupils build secure understanding and develop mastery across subjects.
Our PE provision follows the realPE programme, a child-centred approach that focuses on developing the whole learner. realPE prioritises physical literacy, supporting children to acquire fundamental movement skills alongside the confidence, motivation and competence to take part in physical activity throughout their lives. The programme also nurtures important personal and social skills - such as perseverance, teamwork, decision-making and self-belief. Through inclusive, progressive lessons, realPE encourages every child to achieve their personal best, enjoy physical activity and build lifelong healthy habits.
Together, these approaches create a cohesive and ambitious curriculum that reflects our school values and supports every child to flourish academically, personally and socially
PSHE & RSE
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, Mr Fleckney or Mrs Newbery
