Bradfield Dungworth Primary School
Small school, Big ambitions
Curriculum
The Bradfield Dungworth Way!
At Bradfield Dungworth Primary School, we aim to provide a literacy-rich curriculum that is broad and balanced, and meets the needs of the children in our community. We aim to motivate and inspire children through a curriculum that engages and challenges all learners.
Our curriculum is designed to deepen knowledge and develop skills, with literacy at the heart, ensuring effective progression within each subject discipline and across all year groups. Our ambition is to develop the ‘whole child’, nurturing children’s talents and celebrating their achievements and successes, both academically and in areas such as ‘The Arts’ and ‘PE and Sport’.
Our 'FAMILY' values, alongside our 'Golden Rules' and 'Secrets of Success', are at the core of our curriculum and all that we do at Bradfield Dungworth.
Click here to read our Curriculum Policy 2020
Implementation
We implement an inclusive curriculum that meets the statutory requirements of the National Curriculum. Our curriculum is well-planned and provides literacy-rich, cross-curricular opportunities.
Each half term, all mixed age classes have a ‘focus theme’, which links English to the wider curriculum. Teachers use carefully selected, high-quality focus reading texts, relating to the History, Geography or Science focus themes, to deliver elements of the English curriculum.
Within the wider curriculum, teachers ensure that there are opportunities planned for children to further develop their literacy skills, including regular cross-curricular writing, ensuring that standards are consistent across the curriculum.
Knowledge and vocabulary are fundamental within our literacy-rich curriculum. Lessons are well-planned to develop and increase children’s knowledge, building on prior experiences and making connections in their learning. Children are immersed in and exposed to a diet of vocabulary, which is high-level and subject-specific, to extend their breadth of language.
For each ‘focus theme’, teachers plan an inspiring stimulus and an exciting home learning project to hook and engage children and parents and make learning purposeful and relevant. Parents are provided with ‘knowledge mats’ at the start of all History, Geography and Science units, to encourage discussion with their child and deepen their knowledge and breadth of vocabulary.
Our curriculum is delivered through highly effective ‘quality first teaching’. Enrichment opportunities, including outdoor learning, inspirational visitors and exciting educational visits, provide our children with rich experiences and enhance teaching, learning and knowledge. Knowledge and skills are accurately assessed against ‘Age-Related Descriptors’ and ‘knowledge-based learning objectives’.
Our curriculum promotes children’s Spiritual, Moral, Social and Cultural development, ensuring that they are reflective and responsible citizens. Fundamental British Values are actively promoted in order to prepare the children for life in Modern Britain.
Our curriculum is continually shaped and developed to meet children’s interests and needs, and is supported by practices based on credible research.
Impact
Our literacy-rich curriculum ensures that children are knowledgeable and skilled, achieve well and make excellent progress at each stage of their education. Through the breadth and depth that our curriculum offers, children have strong character traits and are rounded and grounded, confident and resilient, and well-equipped for the future. Our curriculum enables children to become articulate and enthusiastic learners, creative and physically competent, with high aspirations and ambition.
Click here to access our curriculum 2020-21
Curriculum Overview KS1 2020-21(Y1 PE)
Curriculum Overview KS1 2020-21(Y2 PE)
Curriculum Overview Y3/4 2020-21
Curriculum Overview Y5/6 2020-21
You will find our Curriculum Maps from previous years below:
Year group non-negotiables
Here are the key areas in English and Maths that your child will be learning throughout the academic year. These are sent home at the beginning of each academic year
Reception Reading, Writing, Maths parent leaflet
Y1 Reading, Writing, Maths parent leaflet
Y2 Reading, Writing, Maths parent leaflet
Y3 Reading, Writing, Maths parent leaflet
Y4 Reading, Writing, Maths parent leaflet
Y5 Reading, Writing, Maths parent leaflet
Y6 Reading, Writing, Maths parent leaflet
