Curriculum

At Lawn Primary and Nursery School, we believe the curriculum to be instrumental in ensuring that all children develop a love of learning and are equipped with the necessary tools for living a successful and fulfilling life. We believe all children should have the opportunity to access a curriculum that respects the uniqueness of themselves, their community and ensures equality for all learners. Through our curriculum, we aim to nurture a sense of inclusivity, respect and responsibility in all children.

We strive to provide a secure happy and active learning environment to enable our children to develop respect for themselves and others, and an appreciation of the wonder in the world around them. We believe that through positive praise and encouragement, children will become confident and resilient lifelong learners.

At Lawn Primary and Nursery School, our vision is, ‘Children to be Proud of’, and this is underpinned by 4 key values:

Excellence, Confidence, Resilience and Respect

These are paramount to all aspects of our school, including our curriculum.

The Statutory Framework for the Early Years Foundation Stage and the Primary National Curriculum 2014 forms the basis of our curriculum from Early Years through to Year 6. In addition, learning is supplemented through the use of our progression maps. These set out the sequence of knowledge and skills we want our children to learn at each stage of their education. We also make links, where possible, to real-life and to our local area.

We also offer a variety of extra-curricular clubs for all ages, as well as residential trips for Years 4 and 6.

Within our curriculum provision, we ensure high quality learning opportunities:

Through carefully planned, well-structured, sequenced and well-paced lessons, as well as play opportunities, following Lawn Primary and Nursery School’s curriculum plans (see Curriculum Policy and subject policies for more information on Intent, Implementation and Impact).	Excellence
By making objectives, and success criteria explicit to pupils at the beginning of each lesson.	Confidence
By making ongoing reference to behaviours and characteristics of effective learning and growth mindsets.	Resilience
Through engaging and stimulating curriculum content and opportunities.	Respect

At Lawn Primary and Nursery School we believe that effective learning takes place when children are secure in their relationships within school, are motivated, and develop positive independent learning behaviours. Effective learning depends upon effective teaching and the right climate and environment.

Effective teaching and learning is provided through:

carefully planned, sequenced, ambitious lessons where pupils know the objective of their learning and how to be successful
direct instruction, explanation and adult modelling
tasks which are stimulating and appeal to the pupil’s interests
tasks which are well matched to the abilities of learners and offer suitable scaffold, reasonable adjustments where needed and/or challenge for all
an ongoing cycle of assessment and feedback

Where the learning environment is effective…

In order to provide the right climate for fostering effective teaching and learning all staff at Lawn Primary and Nursery School will:

Create a positive learning environment where children feel valued and inspired to do their best. Devise imaginative/creative approaches to ensure lessons are interesting and stimulating. Use ICT effectively to enhance the learning experience, making strong cross-curricular links when appropriate. Set and achieve high standards of behaviour in their learning.	Excellence
Use praise and recognition to foster self-esteem, motivation and confidence. E.g. Class Dojos and Golden Book Ensure that classrooms are safe, productive, calm places. Ensure classrooms are rich with learning and meet the learning environment expectations of the school. Regularly display examples of pupils’ work, which represents a broad range and best efforts. Ensure that Working Walls are in place and supporting learners.	Confidence
Use working walls to promote independence and perseverance. Use Assessment for Learning (AfL) to make ongoing judgements throughout a lesson and be flexible in response to children’s needs. Explicitly share targets with children, building on prior learning to ensure pupils retain an upward flight path of progress and attainment.	Resilience
Develop positive relationships between adults and pupils, and pupils and pupils. Vary teaching styles, learning activities and the learning environment, including role play, to maintain pupils’ interests and take account of learning styles. Use and maintain internal assessment data (current and historic) and target setting to identify required adaptations, e.g., tasks, resources and groupings (see Assessment Policy for further relevant information on assessment). Engage parents in their child’s learning through termly parent curriculum information, contributions to the Website, email, text messaging and information shared at parent evenings (see homework policy for further information).	Respect

We value the role of parents/carers in supporting the children’s learning and encourage support from home. Year group curriculum maps are displayed on the school website to enable children to share their learning with home. Regular open-ended home learning tasks are organised in each year group. There are also opportunities for parents and carers to participate in workshops throughout the year as well as attend open afternoons and performances.

Curriculum overview by year group can be found here

For our Curriculum Policy & Teaching and Learning Policy please click here

To view the Department of Education's National Curriculum in England for Early years click here and for Key Stages 1 and 2 click here

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