Curriculum Overview
The staff of Cliffe Woods Primary School are incredibly passionate about ensuring
that our children have a lively, interesting and fulfilling curriculum which builds on
skills and knowledge. The curriculum of the school is organised so that children are
stimulated, encouraged and challenged to develop their individual potential and
personality to the full.
1. To give pupils appropriate experiences to develop as
confident, responsible citizens
2. To provide a rich ‘cultural capital’
3. To provide a coherent, structured, academic curriculum
that leads to sustained mastery for all and a greater depth
of understanding for those who are capable
Intent
The breadth of our curriculum is designed with three goals:
Our curriculum design is based on evidence from cognitive science; three main
principles underpin it:
1. Learning is most effective with spaced repetition
2. Interleaving helps pupils to discriminate between topics and aids long-term
retention
3. Retrieval of previously learned content is frequent and regular, which increases
both storage and retrieval strength
In addition to the three principles we understand that sustained mastery takes time.
Most of our content is subject specific. Continuous provision, in the form of daily
routines, replaces the teaching of some aspects of the curriculum and, in other
cases, provides retrieval practise for previously learned content.
Implementation
The impact of our curriculum is that by the end of each
milestone, the vast majority of pupils have sustained
mastery of the content; pupils remember a greater majority
and demonstrate confidence. Some pupils have a greater
depth of understanding. We track carefully to ensure pupils
are on track to reach the expectations of our curriculum.
Impact
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