Our ‘Two Year Rolling Programme’ Curriculum Intent:
- Is underpinned by the Catholic Mission of the school, placing Christ at the centre of all we do and driven by termly themes in the school’s RE Curriculum:
- Advent Term: Belonging, Changes & Events – Lent Term: Community, Lives & Choices –Pentecost Term: Our Locality and Our World
- Follows the EYFS curriculum and National Curriculum for KS1 and 2
- Is rooted in the virtues as promoted in our Word of the Week films and wider curriculum
- Promotes communication, language and vocabulary development across the curriculum
- Widens knowledge and skills; and promotes the retention of this across all subjects
- Broadens aspiration and ambition; and promotes confidence and self esteem through the provision of a range of extra curricular and enrichment opportunities
- Enhances links with the local community and uses Newark’s various historical sites to develop understanding of its place in shaping history
- Develops understanding of the wider world and the impact that we have as global citizens, enhanced through our Forest School provision and Eco School curriculum
- Promotes the importance of positive mental health and well being
- Promotes readiness for the next stage of academic development
- Ultimately enables children to become ‘good people’ as well as academically successful, using their God given talents to make a positive difference in the world…
…And to know that, ‘In every child there is a space that only God can fill.’ St Thomas Aquinas
(School Mission Statement)
