What does your child learn at school each day? Find information about our curriculum subjects here.

Curriculum Intent:

At Aston and Cote Primary School the curriculum is designed to: recognise every child as a unique individual, celebrating differences within our community and striving for every child to reach personal excellence. Recognising their prior learning and life experiences, we provide first-hand and independent opportunities which allow the children to develop resilience, perseverance and interpersonal skills and become creative, reflective and critical thinkers.

Within our school community, the ability to learn is underpinned by the teaching of basic skills, knowledge, concepts and values.  The ability to learn independently and collaboratively is constantly supported by the provision of enhancement opportunities to engage the learners.  We strongly believe that childhood should be a joyful time and that through investigating and enquiring there are no limits to what our children can achieve.  With the correct curriculum opportunities and teaching strategies, we are able to fulfil our children’s curiosity and thirst for new knowledge and experiences.

We use our behaviour system to promote positive attitudes to learning which reflect the Christian value of forgiveness and develop the skills needed to promote honesty and personal responsibility for learning and future success.

As a church school, involvement in our community is an essential part of our curriculum.  As we learn together hand in hand we support all stakeholders to engage in learning, celebrating Christian and local traditions and events together.

Our children will leave our school with a sense of belonging to and passion for their community.  They will have the confidence in their own skills and abilities to make decisions, explore the wider world, self-evaluate, make connections and become lifelong learners.

Curriculum Implementation:

We have developed a cross-curricular approach to maximise links across subjects and to ensure teaching and learning is relevant and meaningful for the children. Whenever possible, class novels are linked to the topic enabling children to use knowledge gained from reading the text to inform their understanding of the topic and vice versa.

Our key stage topics have been developed using the EYFS Statutory Framework and National Curriculum.  Priority is given to the development of English and Maths skills for all pupils. Our current topics have been carefully designed to incorporate the children’s interests and include opportunities to develop an understanding of:

• Our local community
• The past and lessons we can learn from it
• Our responsibilities as global citizens
• How we can each make a difference as citizens of the future

Topics are carefully designed to capture the interests and imaginations of our children, within a local context.  In order to ensure that progression and balance is maintained, the programmes of study are developed into medium-term plans which clearly highlight the learning objectives and weekly plans which include assessment opportunities and differentiated tasks as well as links to other subjects.

We use every opportunity to make connections between subjects and to develop literacy and numeracy skills in a purposeful context.  RE, PE, MFL and PSHCE are usually taught as discreet subjects to ensure coverage of the main objectives and age-appropriate knowledge and skill development. This also applies to Science although where meaningful links can be made, we do so. 

Curriculum Impact:

Our school vision includes the strapline “Aspiring to be the people God created us to be by growing the talents He gave us”. We strive to ensure that every child achieves his/her full potential including academically, socially and creatively.  Children do well by the end of Key Stage Two when compared to local and national results as well as developing key knowledge and skills across the wider curriculum.

Our focus on developing the mental health and well-being of our children enables them to confidently deal with the difficult situations they encounter during their time at our school and beyond. Our commitment to learning outside the classroom also contributes to their health and well-being.

 Through our ASTONishing Learners programme, the children develop key characteristics that will be vital in their future education and beyond. Opportunities to work collaboratively with peers and children from younger classes prepare the children for their future careers whilst the focus on global citizenship enables the children to develop a social conscience.

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