Curriculum Intent

Our school vision – to nurture faith; to inspire success – is the basis of all we do at Sapperton and that includes our curriculum. We strive to nurture children’s innate love of learning, develop faith in their own abilities, inspire them to pursue their own interests, try new things, test themselves and succeed in all areas of their life. Our broad and balanced coverage of the National Curriculum is sequentially planned to be knowledge-rich and ambitious in its intent, allowing the children to make connections with previous learning and preparing them for the next step. It enables children to pose and answer deep questions, giving them the opportunity to demonstrate and apply their knowledge, skills and understanding in a real and meaningful way.

In Foundation Stage and key Stage 1, we operate a 3-year cycle as we structure the themes for learning across all three year groups.

In Key Stage 2, we operate a two-year rolling programme due to our mixed age group classes. This has been carefully structured to ensure that progression and knowledge recall is effective.

As the development of reading, vocabulary and comprehension are crucial to successful learning, we prioritise this by always using high-quality texts across the curriculum. Early phonetic decoding is essential so we systematically enable learning following Floppy's Phonics from Oxford University Press, closely monitoring progress so that we can support children to catch up quickly if they fall behind.

In all subjects, we have clearly identified what children should know and be able to do by the end of each unit, year and Key Stage. We assess this through deep questioning and rich tasks which stretch the children to make links in their learning.

At Sapperton, we want to inspire all children to succeed in all subjects. We do this by nurturing them to have faith in their abilities as:

• a writer
  a writer

  • creates images in the reader's mind
  • plays with words
  • grabs the reader's attention
  • writes as a reader

• a reader
  a reader

  • has a passion for words and books
  • creates images in their mind
  • reads as a writer

• a mathematician
  a mathematician

  • spot patterns
  • solve problems
  • use what I already know
  • find the quickest method
  • work systematically

• a scientist
  a scientist

  • predicts and analyses
  • asks questions
  • makes links
  • curious

• an artist
  an artist

  • expressive
  • creative
  • a risk-taker
  • patient

• a geographer
  a geographer

  • aware of the spaces and places around them
  • interested in the diversity of people and places and the relationship between them
  • compare and contrast observations they make

• a musician
  a musician

  • listens & appraises
  • improvises & experiments
  • composes & performs

• a poet
  a poet

  • experiments with words
  • conveys meaning through varying styles
  • understands pattern in different forms

• an historian
  an historian

  • asks historical questions
  • looks for and evaluates evidence
  • compares and contrasts

• a programmer
  a programmer

  • inquisitive
  • intuitive
  • analytical
  • methodical

• an athlete
  an athlete

  • determined to succeed
  • never gives up
  • thinks and reacts quickly
  • has balance, flexibility, strength and co-ordination

• a designer
  a designer

  • has a vision
  • is ambitious
  • tries new things
  • always improving

• a linguist
  a linguist

  • listening attentively
  • loves language