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
