Our Curriculum
At St Peter’s C of E Primary School our ASPIRE curriculum is one that is broad and balanced and is ambitious for all: it ensures ‘life in all its fullness’ for our children. It is exciting, relevant and meaningful and responds to the needs of the individuals within our learning community, enabling them to shine academically and flourish spiritually, socially, emotionally, morally and culturally. Our vision is for children to have high aspirations, persevere with their challenges and to achieve their full potential – ensuring ‘life in all its fullness’.
We have developed the St Peter’s C of E ‘ASPIRE’ curriculum. This ensures that our curriculum stems from our vision that all children will aspire, believing in themselves and aiming high:
Unlocking every child's potential
Key Stage 1 Curriculum Overviews:
Year 1
Autumn 1 - Curriculum Overview 2024-25
Autumn 2 - Curriculum Overview 2024-25
Year 2
Lower Key Stage 2 Curriculum Overviews:
Year 3
Autumn 1 - Curriculum Overviews 2024-25
Autumn 2 - Curriculum Overview 2024-25
Year 4
Upper Key Stage 2 Curriculum Overviews:
Year 5
Autumn 1 - Curriculum Overview 2024-25
Autumn 2 - Curriculum Overview 2024-25
Year 6:
Subject Leadership
All subjects at St Peter's are led by Subject Leaders. They lead learning in their subject. This involves developing the curriculum, monitoring teaching and learning, leading staff training in their subject and identifying strengths and next steps for their subject alongside the headteacher.
All subject leaders keep a record of the development of their subject this includes:
- Strengths and areas for development in their subject
- Current data and learning gaps to address
- A review of the previous academic year's actions plan
- Records of CPD
- Records of monitoring
- Records of enrichment opportunities in their subject
- The current action plan for their subject
These documents are updated alongside the headteacher and feed directly into school improvement planning.
An example subject leadership document (for history) is available below:
Our ASPIRE curriculum is really important to us at St Peter's. It raises our children's aspirations. Below is our 'Aspiration Tree' proudly displayed in the heart of the school. This was created during 'Aspirations week' 2023 - more details below!
Our St Peter's ASPIRE curriculum principles:
We have designed our curriculum with the following in mind:
- How children learn and remember – we recognise that progress means ‘knowing more, remembering more and being able to do more’ and so we want our children to know more, remember more and to be able to do more as a result of their time with us at St Peter’s C of E – in every subject discipline.
- What our children need to succeed in life – we want our learners to have the ‘cultural capital’ they need to make aspirational choices and experience success beyond their time at St Peter’s C of E Primary School.
Our bespoke curriculum at St Peter’s, underpinned by current research, has been designed to take account of the statutory requirements of the Early Years Foundation Stage Curriculum and the Primary National Curriculum (these have been used for the basis for the content and the expectations of our own curriculum). Our curriculum does also incorporate other experiences and opportunities which best meet the needs of the children in our school.
The full range of core and foundation subjects have been carefully mapped out across school in clear progression frameworks, so that essential knowledge, understanding, skills and concepts build over time. As a result of this, we hope that all children leave St Peter’s C of E Primary School having mastered a wide range of concepts and skills and gained the knowledge that gives them a love of learning, prepares them for their next steps and develops an understanding of the world in which they live.
As part of our carefully mapped out curriculum, we also ensure we provide all children with opportunities for experiential learning, through things such as residential visits, extra-curricular sports, arts, taking part in performing arts festivals, Spanish lessons, visitors to the school and a range of visits off-site. These will be carefully tracked through the St Peter’s Passport.
Applying Rosenshine's Principles of Instruction:
