Curriculum Overview

Staff’s lesson planning provides suitable learning challenges to stimulate and motivate children’s learning. This encompasses a variety of exciting, first-hand experiences to enable children to acquire appropriate skills, knowledge and understanding preparing them for today’s world and the future ahead. Through the provision of a stimulating environment, children will develop to their potential academically, emotionally, socially and physically. Parents are kept up to date about curriculum issues through communication with individual teachers.

We use the National Curriculum programmes of study as the basis for the children’s learning. We follow a rolling programme using a topic based approach that links different areas of the curriculum. Each aspect of the subject is then differentiated to meet the needs of the children. We provide a curriculum map each term showing the learning planned in all aspects of the curriculum. We reflect and review our curriculum topics regularly, ensuring variety and interest for our children.

Parents have the right to withdraw their children from religious education and should contact the Head of School to ask for this. Parents will be invited to a meeting to discuss withdrawal and to explore how their concern may be met. Parents are not obliged to attend such a meeting in which case withdrawal shall be put into effect immediately and the school will notify the parent.

In accordance with the Equality Act 2010 and the Special Educational Needs and Disability Regulations 2014, and in the pursuit of the school's mission for all pupils, the learning in each subject is provided for all pupils in the school, including those with special educational needs. Lesson planning by teachers and subject leaders ensures that learning is accessible for all: agile, adaptive approaches to learning allow all learners to focus upon the most important small steps in each lesson. 

Occasionally, an individualised approach to the curriculum is designed in order to be fully inclusive of a child's needs and abilities. 

Loders Primary School aims to:

Foster a life-long love of learning, through adopting a highly practical and cross-curricular approach. Children learn best when they can make links and learn within context. Our curriculum promotes enjoyment of learning through debate, creativity, purpose and relevance. We hope that pupils are motivated by achievement both now and in the future and have a positive attitude towards themselves, others and their environment.

You can read about the expectations for Reading, Writing and Maths in each Year Group in the booklets below:

Year 1Year 2Year 3Year 4Year 5Year 6