Curriculum overview

The staff at New Pasture Lane Primary School are dedicated to provide a stimulating and challenging curriculum, which is specifically designed to allow experienced based creative learning, that has impact on the learning needs of the children in this school.

Curriculum Vision

At New Pasture Lane Primary School, teaching and learning are at the heart of all we do. We are ‘nurturing pupils learning’ in an inclusive where every child has the right to an ambitious, inspiring, challenging, creative, and enjoyable curriculum. Our curriculum is thoughtfully designed to offer both breadth and depth, enabling all children—regardless of their starting points—to build their knowledge and skills progressively. This ensures they develop to their full potential and are empowered to aim to be the best they can be. We hold high aspirations for all our children and are confident that every single one of them can achieve success.

To realise our curriculum vision, we have developed four curriculum drivers that are closely linked to our school values and respond directly to the unique needs of our community. These drivers are the golden threads that run through our curriculum and shape the learning experiences we provide.

Curriculum Drivers

Basic Skills – Building the foundations for lifelong learning.

Children develop strong language and communication skills, using correct grammar and speaking confidently.
They become fluent, confident readers with a love of reading, engaging regularly with high-quality texts.
Vocabulary development is a priority, supported by rich texts across the curriculum.
Children become confident writers, mastering spelling, grammar, and punctuation.
Mathematical skills are developed to enable reasoning and problem-solving with confidence.

Oracy - Driving discussion, debate and audience in a language rich environment.

Enhances children’s communication and collaboration skills
Encourages discussion, debate, and sharing of ideas in a supportive, language-rich setting.
Inspires purposeful speaking and listening opportunities that build confidence and fluency.
Regular, purposeful speaking and listening activities to scaffold children’s oral language development.

Philosophy for Learning - Opening up children's learning through enquiry and exploration of ideas.

Encourages children to ask thoughtful questions and engage in deep thinking.
Promotes critical thinking by allowing children to explore different perspectives.
Supports the development of problem-solving skills by providing opportunities for children to investigate ideas, test hypotheses, and reflect on their learning processes.
Enabling children to connect new knowledge with prior understanding and build complex mental models.

Possibilities and Personal Development - Encouraging children’s aspirations for the future. Promoting respect, responsibility, motivation and self-belief.

Promotes the possibilities open to them to drive their future ambitions.
Experiences and role models inspire children to aim high.
Children are supported to be mentally and physically healthy.
Self-esteem is nurtured through positive experiences.
Emotional understanding and self-regulation are taught explicitly.
Healthy, safe relationships and respect for others are promoted.

Curriculum Intent

Our curriculum is ambitious and designed to equip all children with the knowledge, skills, and attributes essential for learning, life, and future work. Understanding our community’s challenges, we have crafted a curriculum that addresses barriers and supports all learners. It is carefully sequenced to build knowledge cumulatively towards clear end points in each subject, with particular attention to closing gaps and supporting those with SEND and from disadvantaged backgrounds.

Reading lies at the heart of our curriculum. We teach early reading through a systematic phonics programme and use high-quality texts as thematic foundations. Our curriculum is coherently planned from Early Years through Key Stage Two, ensuring children develop communication, language, and social skills alongside core literacy and numeracy skills. By the end of Key Stage One, pupils are prepared to access a broad and rich curriculum.

Our curriculum is inclusive and ambitious for all children, providing adaptations when necessary to ensure every child can develop knowledge and skills with increasing independence and fluency.

We offer a rich PSHE & RSE curriculum supporting safety, health, confidence, and resilience, including age-appropriate relationships and sex education. Religious education follows the locally agreed syllabus. Our PE curriculum promotes lifelong healthy habits through positive physical activity experiences.

We are committed to developing our children as educated citizens by introducing them to great ideas, creativity, and achievement. We ensure all children access high-quality experiences both in school and the wider community to build cultural capital.

Curriculum Implementation

English and Mathematics are taught daily and links are made between foundation subjects when possible. Subject leaders have developed ambitious, clearly sequenced schemes of work based on appropriate pedagogy for each subject, to ensure effective teaching and learning across the school. To ensure there is clear progression across the school, each scheme of work builds on prior knowledge and towards clearly defined end points. Subject leaders have identified subject specific key concepts which are built on as pupils progress through the school. Second order concepts have also been planned throughout the curriculum so that these can be revisited across a range of subject areas. Knowledge is consolidated and built upon through planned retrieval and recall opportunities in lesson sequences.

Teachers work with subject leaders to ensure schemes of work are delivered effectively and that quality first teaching is in place. Lessons have clearly defined outcomes and pupils are taught using effective teaching sequences which include modelling, scaffolding, guided practice, independent work and feedback. Teachers assess pupils work and identify any misconceptions so that these can be addressed. Assessment is used to check whether pupils have gained the intended learning during lessons and to inform future teaching. Teachers understand that for pupils to learn, knowledge and skills need to become embedded in long-term memory. To ensure this happens all lessons are planned to build on what has been taught before and work towards defined end points. Teachers ensure pupils have a secure understanding of the learning intention and can use and apply their knowledge and skills fluently and independently. All teachers are supported to develop expert subject knowledge through high quality CPD, both from within school and from external providers.

Curriculum Impact

Learning is demonstrated by lasting changes in children’s knowledge and skills. Assessment ensures children have mastered intended learning, can apply it confidently, and remember more over time. The impact of our curriculum is evident in children’s work and progress towards curriculum end points. Our children develop the knowledge, skills, and cultural capital needed to succeed in the next stages of education and life, growing into responsible, respectful, and resilient citizens.

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