Intent
Every child at Belmont Primary School is given every opportunity to achieve their potential. We believe that children should enjoy school and develop a love of learning where achievements of all should be celebrated. In delivering our curriculum we aim to ensure that all children access a high quality curriculum that engages and interests. Our broad and balanced curriculum is bespoke to Belmont and is underpinned by the National Curriculum and routed in knowledge, skills and language. It is delivered on a two year cycle due to being mixed age group classes which ensures that children receive the breadth they are entitled to. We aim to ensure that all children are provided a range of opportunities that helps to identify their passion including art, music and sport.
Our curriculum is progressive and builds upon prior knowledge and skills. We provide our children with high quality teaching within our classrooms. We also place a high emphasis on being a positive member of our school family, our community and beyond. We believe that trust, honesty, integrity and empathy are key values. As a small community school we place well-being as a priority and aim to ensure that all children feel safe and happy.
Implementation
To ensure that our bespoke curriculum is delivered to the highest standard, we place a high emphasis on staff development with the impact on the child being at the core of everything we do.
Through careful, collaborative planning, teaching, assessment and feedback our curriculum is delivered to a high standard. Subjects are taught discretely and careful consideration is given when planning to progression of skills and knowledge throughout all year groups. Language development is key to children’s learning and this is planned and taught in all curriculum areas.
We have developed a bespoke pupil progress tracking system to ensure that all children are making at least good progress from their starting points. Summative assessments alongside Assessment for Learning Strategies are used to identify areas for development and appropriate, structured intervention is implemented if appropriate.
Having a broad, creative curriculum is pivotal to The Belmont curriculum. Learning outside the classroom and providing engaging lessons plays a key role in this.
Impact
Through our clear intent, and rigorous implementation of the curriculum, we strive for all children to be successful at Belmont. Children will leave Belmont Primary School very well prepared for their next stage of their education, and have core values and confidence instilled in them that will ensure that they are lifelong learners.