Curriculum

Curriculum Intent

Our Old Hall curriculum meets the statutory expectations of the National Curriculum. Our personalisation of the curriculum reflects our school's context and ensures our children understand equality, inclusivity and opportunity as we strive to embody our school motto.

Aspire, Inspire, Motivate - AIM High!

Equality - ensuring every member of our Old Hall family has equal opportunity to succeed. It ensures individuals are not treated differently or discriminated against because of his or her characteristics.

Inclusivity - we strive to remove barriers to success through our inclusive practices and the skill of our staff in supporting children's diverse needs and helping every child to achieve their goals.

Opportunity - we build our children's cultural capital through maximising experiences, finding ways to learn and grow beyond the classroom and teaching and learning routines where possible and relevant, striving to make the most of our environment.

Our approach to education is holistic; we are concerned for the whole child – mind, body and spirit. We offer an exciting and challenging curriculum for all. We set high standards and expect each child to give their best in all that they do. English is our key curriculum driver, with high-quality core texts at the very heart. The English curriculum has been carefully planned to complement and further enhance the History, Geography and Science curriculum, with explicit opportunities for cross-curricular reading and writing experiences planned to further enhance the learning journey, supporting children to know more and remember more.

These are the 4 main themes that span our curriculum:

• Our place in our world
• Inquisitive Investigators
• Achieving Aspirations
• Creative Collaborators

Curriculum Model

Curriculum Implementation

Our curriculum is taught through discreet subjects that are sequentially planned in order to build on key knowledge, skills and understanding in order to support our children to know and remember more.

Explicit links between our English and our Science, History and Geography curriculum have been carefully planned and can be further explored following the links below.

Curriculum Links

• English and Geography Links
• English and History Links
• English and Science Links
• English Long Term Overview Y1 - Y6

Our curriculum is also designed to reflect our local context, making our learning even more meaningful and relevant to the children of Old Hall. Some examples of how this has been achieved can be seen below.

Curriculum Contexual Links

Curriculum Content by Year Group

This shows our curriculum content for each year group for the next academic year 2023 - 2024 following a recent review of our History, Geography, Science and English curriculums and the implementation of the Grammarsaurus scheme in the listed subjects from the summer term 2023. As we look ahead to a full cycle of our revised curriculum, the documents below outline the content for each year group moving forward.

The taught content for summer 2023 is based on those aspects of the national curriculum that have not yet been delivered in these subjects in preparation for our new cycle to begin in September 2023.

Curriculum Overview