Curriculum Intention & Structure
The LGPS curriculum is a rigorous, highly-sequenced pathway of knowledge-rich learning for our pupils.
Overview:
The curriculum at Langton Green Primary School is designed to build and expand on our pupils’ prior experience and knowledge of the world. We value each child’s contributions to the school community and support them to form connections and links between their own experiences, skills and knowledge and those developed in school, and the wider world as a whole.
However, the school also recognises its role as a safe place for challenging and exploring ideas and opinions. We teach our pupils to question the world around them and to rigorously challenge the opinions that they hold. Through doing this, we also ensure that our children learn to empathise with other communities, including those of different nationality, faith, race, wealth or lifestyle. We believe that every pupil at Langton Green Primary School should aspire to be an independent, resilient and active citizen of the world.
“No-one is too small to make a difference.” Greta Thunberg
Curriculum Principles:
We work towards our curriculum intentions by valuing three core principles while leading, planning, teaching or assessing our curriculum:
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Inspiration:
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We value a high standard of knowledge in each of the subjects of our curriculum, from staff and pupils. We expect staff and pupils to think creatively about the content of our curriculum and build links between bodies of knowledge wherever possible. We believe that the Langton Green curriculum should be relevant to the world outside of our school. We regularly ask staff and pupils to consider why we have selected these particular skills and bodies of knowledge. |
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Challenge:
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We hold ambitious and aspirational expectations of our staff and pupils, and we value growth mind-set attitudes in the quest to reach those aspirations. We ensure that the school is a place where pupils and staff can feel secure enough to challenge and question ideas and opinions. We appreciate the power of evaluation and explanation. We strongly believe that it is our duty to provide access to “the best that has been thought and said” (National Curriculum, September 2013, p.6) for our pupils. |
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Balance:
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We provide our pupils with access to “a full range of subjects” (Ofsted EIF, May 2019, p.9) in a curriculum that is clear and consistent, but still maintains scope for individuality and creativity. Our expectations of pupils and staff are equally clear, consistent and fairly judged. We consider the impact of decisions that we make on pupil and staff well-being. We work supportively with members of the school community who find our expectations challenging. |
Curriculum Structure and Tools:
At Langton Green we employ a number of curriculum tools to aid our teachers with the planning and assessment of the learning within the classroom. This allows us to ensure a consistency of approach in all classrooms, while also alleviating teacher workload and making sure that our pupils receive a highly structured knowledge-based curriculum.
All of our planning for all of the subjects is rooted in the National Curriculum Programme of Study and the statutory end of key stage frameworks. However, we expect our pupils to have access to a curriculum which takes those documents as a minimum and challenges them to work on skills and subject content beyond these outlines.
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Learning is designed to reflect a spiral of expanding knowledge. Children revisit key knowledge, understanding and skills in different contexts throughout their current year group and across the whole school curriculum with increasing difficulty and challenge. This allows pupils the opportunity to develop a mastery of those concepts because they are challenged on what they already know as well as being introduced to new content. We encourage adults and pupils to make links between bodies of knowledge whenever possible because this “schema” of understanding increases retention of information and ideas. |
You can read more about each of the subjects, and find overviews of the curricula, on our subject pages:
If you have any further questions regarding the curriculum structure and organisation, or the tools that we use to support teaching and learning, please contact the senior leadership team via the school office.