Curriculum Experiences Linked to our Strap Line

Opportunities we provide linked with our strap line of inspiring confidence, compassion, character and fun!

Please click here to see examples of how our curriculum is strengthened by the core values in our strap line.

Confidence

Compassion

Character

Fun

Whole-school shared experiences

● Learning Behaviours/ Animals
● Praise, rewards, good to be green, house points
● Phase assembly
● Open school sessions for parents

● Learning Behaviours/Animals
● Harvest festival donations for local charity
● Whole School Remembrance Day minute silence with playing of Last Post
● School Council Eco Warriors – plastic free school and save our frogs initiative

● Learning Behaviours/Animals
● French celebration day

● Learning Behaviours/Animals
● Extreme reading celebration
● Learning Behaviour Animals
● Extreme reading celebration

EYFS

● Prime areas
● Transition arrangements
● Induction
● Build on children’s interests and experiences
● Star bear
● Talk partners, talking in small groups
● Thinking thumbs
●Time to complete independent activities
● Characteristics of effective learning
● Displays
● Show and tell
● Christmas play, class assembly
● School trips
● Parent visits

● Stories
● Discussions
● Circle time
● Role play
● Routines
● Setting of clear, reasonable and consistent limits
● Reflective
● Playing games, taking turns, sharing
● Handing out fruit
● School rules
● Puppets
● Activities to promote cooperation, collaboration
● Dolls
● Small world toy
● Talk partners

● Characteristics of effective learning
● Activities organised around children’s interest
● Continuous provision
● Indoor and outdoor learning
● Forest area
● Exciting resources and activities
● Role play
● Time to talk
● Praise
● Show and tell
● Promoting curiosity
● Circle time
● Manners
● Imaginative play
● Challenges

● Multi sensory activities
● Visitors
● Trips
● Child initiated learning
● Continuous provision
● Children’s interests
● Play
● Malleable resources
● Practical hands on
● Laughter
● Imaginative play

Year 1

● Class assemblies
● Displaying their work
● Interests and experiences
● Praise, rewards, good to be green, house points, phase assembly, star bear
● Talk partners, talking in small groups, maths partners
● Time to complete independent activities
● Transition to Year 1
● Displays
● Show and tell
● School trips
● Parent visits
● Class monitors

● Local church visit
● Circle time
● PHSE lessons
● School rules
● Playing games, taking turns, sharing.
● Talk partners

● Activities organised around children’s interest
● Some indoor and outdoor learning
● Forest school
● Exciting resources and activities
● Role play
● Praise
● Promoting curiosity
● Circle time
● Manners
● Challenges
● Independent learners

● Zoo Trip
● Botanical Gardens Trip
● Panto visit to the school
● Golden time
● Extra curricular clubs
● Class treat

Year 2

● Year 2 residential
● Class assemblies
● Sharing work with SLT
● Show and tell
● KS1 sports with LT
● Rewards – pom poms, awards, marble jar treats

● Singing at the care home
● School rules – good to be green
● Taking it in turn
● Creating class version of school rules
● ICT e safety
● PHSE lessons
● Talk partners
● ELSA interventions

● Year 2 residential
● Exciting activities and resources
● Independent learning – knowing that it’s ok to turn a page when the run out of space!
● Risk taking

● Year 2 residential
● Bosworth Water Park
● Butterfly Farm

Year 3

● Swimming
● Class Assemblies
● Show and Tell
● Staff Choir performing in assembly for kids
● KS2 Sports Opportunities
● Phase Poetry reading with Year 4s
● Guitar, drum and keyboard lessons plus evening concert

● ELSA opportunity
● Story Time
● Encouraging sharing and understanding one another Reading Buddies
● PSHE
● Talk Partners
● School Rules
● Penpal initiative with French link school
● Cross country
● Class meditation

● Derbyshire Trip
● Class Monitors
● Plenty of Praise
● Singing Assembly
● French celebration day – hot chocolate and brioche plus class activity

● Derbyshire Trip
● Swimming
● Marble Jar treat
● Alice In Wonderland Tea Party
● Gurdwara visit
● Bosworth Battlefield trip
● Stone age workshop
● Stone age survival forest school
● Class garden – planting bulbs and vegetables
● Making fossils and amber Jurassic Park stones
● French dressing up role play

Year 4

● Caythorpe Court Trip
● Year 4 Production
● Class Assemblies
● Phase Poetry reading with Year 3s
● Guitar, drum and keyboard lessons plus evening concert

● ELSA opportunity
● Story Time
● Encouraging sharing and understanding one another Reading Buddies
● PSHE
● Talk Partners
● School Rules
● Cross country

● Class Monitors
● Plenty of Praise
● ICT monitors
● Singing Assembly
● French celebration day – hot chocolate and brioche plus class activity

● Caythorpe Court Trip
● New Walk Museum
● Local Area Walk – Science
● Mandir visit
● Nurse Visit – Teeth
● Marble Jar treat
● Extreme reading celebration

Year 5

● Burbage Common
● Learning mentor
● Sports Leader
● House captain
● Librarian
● Fruit monitor
● Clubs
● Christmas choir – singing with staff choir in Christmas assembly
● Link with Leicester Cathedral choir
● Guitar, drum and keyboard lessons plus evening concert

● Learning mentor
● Sports Leader
● Reading buddies
● Clubs
● Cross country

● Burbage Common
● Learning mentor
● Sports Leader
● House captain
● Librarian
● Fruit monitor
● Phase assemblies/house points
● Clubs
● French celebration day – hot chocolate and brioche plus class activity

● Space Centre
● Great British Bake Off – Scone Making
● Marble jar treats
● Clubs
● Extreme reading celebration

Year 6

● Talk the talk
● Devon
● Warning zone
● End of year performance
● Learning mentor
● Sports Leader
● House captain
● Librarian
● Fruit monitor
● Clubs
● Christmas choir – singing with staff choir in Christmas assembly
● Technician Monitors for singing assembly
● Language Ambassadors
● Link with Leicester Cathedral choir
● Guitar, drum and keyboard lessons plus evening concert

● Devon
● Church leaving assembly
● Reading buddies
● Clubs
● Cross country

● Warning zone
● End of year performance
● Church leaving assembly
● Learning mentor
● Sports Leader
● House captain
● Librarian
● Fruit monitor
● Phase assemblies/house points
● Clubs
● Language Ambassadors
● French celebration day – hot chocolate and brioche plus class activity
● Latin club

● Devon
● Warning zone
● End of year performance
● Zoo Lab
● Marble jar treats
● End of Year treat
● Clubs
● French food-tasting
● Cadbury World
● Extreme reading celebration