Curriculum overview

We aim to provide our children with memorable and powerful learning experiences. We promote an ethos of self-belief, respect, resilience and high expectations for ourselves and others in everything we learn and achieve.

We value every child as an individual and believe that learning should be purposeful and challenging. The primary intention of our curriculum is in line with our school vision - Include, Inspire and Achieve. Development of key learning behaviours is the core of all learning to ensure that learning is deep and embedded. Specific teaching of key aspects of learning – empathy, managing feelings, self-confidence, motivation and social skills underpin all learning. We ensure that learning is based around engaging and fun topics and themes and in addition to class-based learning, we ensure that there is a whole school entitlement for all children to learn outside the classroom.

The primary intention of our curriculum is aligned with our school vision - to Include, Inspire and Achieve. Development of key learning behaviours is at the core of all learning to ensure that learning is deep and embedded. Specific teaching of key aspects of learning – empathy, managing feelings, self-confidence, motivation and social skills underpin all learning. 

Teaching and Learning

At Starbeck Community Primary School, we believe that by involving children in all parts of learning, they will be motivated and more able to achieve. In all lessons we:

• Review and revisit previous learning
• Share the Learning Intention with the pupils so that they know what they are learning and why.
• Discuss steps to successful learning with pupils to ensure all children achieve and make progress within lessons
• Ensure activities will be supported by resources and additional scaffolding or questions/problems so that children can work at the right level for them, whether this is with extra support or more challenge.
• Provide opportunities for collaborative work such as working in groups or with a partner, enabling pupils to develop understanding and reasoning.
• Involve pupils in their own assessment for learning throughout the lesson.
• Mark and evaluate the learning with the pupils using our school marking policy.
• Give pupils opportunities to improve their work further and discuss next steps in their learning.

Key Stages

Primary age children are organised into different ‘Key Stages’ and the curriculum is geared towards the learning and development needs of children at each stage:

Early Years Foundation Stage: This covers children from Birth to age 5. At Starbeck school, this is children who are in Nursery and in Reception.

Key Stage 1: Children in Years 1 and 2

Key Stage 2: Children in Years 3, 4, 5 and 6. 

Curriculum

We follow the National Curriculum in Years 1 to 6. This is composed of the eleven subjects; English, Mathematics, Science, Art and Design, Computing, Design and Technology, History, Geography, Languages, Music and Physical Education.

Religious Education is a statutory subject with the agreed syllabus determined by North Yorkshire's SACRE (Standing Advisory Council for Religious Education).

Personal, Social, Health and Citizenship Education (PSHCE) is also taught on a weekly basis.

We ensure that learning is based around engaging and fun topics and themes and in addition to class-based learning, we ensure that there is a whole school entitlement for all children to learn outside the classroom.