Curriculum Map
Mission Statement : The community of The Roebuck School are working together to ensure that pupils receive a high quality education, which develops a love of learning and a range of life skills, delivered in a safe and nurturing environment.
Our Early Years Foundation Stage curriculum offers a firm foundation to be built upon during the children's journey throughout The Roebuck School and beyond.
We have 4 clear aims which are inextricably intertwined throughout The Roebuck School.
We want our children to be:
- Ready to learn
- Respectful
- Responsible
- Resilient
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The curriculum in Early Years is designed to provide a broad and balanced education that meets the needs of all pupils. It facilitates them to gain the skills, knowledge and understanding, as they start out on their educational journey, supporting them to progress from their individual starting points and preparing them for the next stage of their education.
Our ethos in Early Years is to support children’s personal, social and emotional development so that they feel safe and secure and are ready to learn.
Through the seven areas of learning we provide topics that excite and engage children, building on own interests and developing their experiences of the world around them. We recognise that all children come into our setting with varied experiences and all staff work hard to ensure that the learning opportunities provided widen their knowledge and understanding of the world, setting ambitious expectations for all children.
The curriculum celebrates diversity and supports the pupils’ spiritual, moral, social and cultural development. Those children with particular needs, including SEND, are supported appropriately allowing them to be successful.
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Intent
It is our intent that every child develops physically, verbally, emotionally, creatively, intellectually, and spiritually whilst embedding a positive attitude to school and learning. We set high expectations throughout all areas of school life, underpinned by our school ethos. We value each child individually, and we are passionate in supporting all children to achieve their full, unique potential. Our Reception classes follow the EYFS national curriculum, which has seven main areas of learning.
Our pedagogy is founded on the needs and interests of the children
Implementation
At The Roebuck School , we offer a curriculum which is broad and balanced and which builds on the knowledge, understanding and skills of all children, whatever their starting points. We follow the Early Years curriculum using topic themes and enrichment opportunities.
The aim of our curriculum is to develop a thirst and love for learning by:
- Carefully planning sequences of activities that provide meaningful learning experiences, developing each child’s characteristics of learning.
- Providing high quality interactions with adults that demonstrate and impact on the progress of all children.
- Using high quality questioning and interactions to check understanding and address misconceptions.
- Staff acting as role models to the children they teach in order for children to develop their own speaking and listening skills.
- Carefully assessing, through observations, which are recorded on Evidence Me and Class Dojo and shared with parents. These are used to inform the next steps of learning and meet individual needs.
- Developing an effective and engaging environment that is set up so that children can access all areas of learning both inside and outside at any one time.
- Providing activity starting points for child initiated activities that enhance children’s learning and impact on progress.
- Allowing children to be successful in their attempts at an activity and using effective feedback to help facilitate next steps in learning.
- Suggesting home learning opportunities with information about what has been taught, allowing parents to build on their child’s school experiences, at home.
We recognise the changing needs and interests of our pupils and we are responsive to this, regularly developing existing topics.
Impact
At The Roebuck School we are working towards all children achieving a good level of development in the early learning goals by the end of the reception year. However we also recognise the importance of the curriculum meeting the needs of the children and enabling them to become deeply engaged and enjoy learning. We aim to create a curriculum which enables everyone to succeed, where children are resilient, co-operate and work well with each other.
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