Curriculum Overview
Overall Curriculum Intent
At Offham Primary School, our curriculum is designed so that:-
- Children grow a broad and deep understanding of key knowledge and skills across all curriculum subjects in preparation for their future learning and careers.
- Children become articulate and confident individuals with successful personal attributes based on the Offham values.
- Children gain a rich and wide range of knowledge of vocabulary across all subjects.
- Children are passionate and competent readers.
- Lessons are deliberately sequenced and robust progression - Learning, vocabulary and content is cumulative.
Curriculum Implementation
At Offham we keep our pedagogical knowledge fresh and consistent. Our key foci in all lessons are:
- Reducing cognitive load
- Retrieval practice - to ensure learning transfers to the long term memory
- I do, we do, you do approach
- I do = teacher modelling approach thinking (often using a visualiser)
- We do = children having a go with teacher analysing their understanding and picking up misconceptions
- You do - children having repeated independent practice
- Live marking - teacher picking up misconceptions in lessons and children improving their work with their 'Green Polishing Pen'
- Scaffolded work to ensure inclusivity for all learners to achieve
- Children showing resilience and passion in their learning
Curriculum Impact
Children:
- develop a passion for learning.
- develop social and emotional skills for future life
- develop fluency to allow deeper understanding.
- recall their learning and make links across the curriculum.
- maximise their academic achievement
