CURRICULUM DRIVERS
The Ridgeway Primary Academy curriculum is based on knowledge, skills and experiences.
It has been carefully designed to be real, relevant and rich.
Everything we do is underpinned by the following curriculum drivers:
PROUD
We will strive to ensure that every child knows their own self-worth and believes they can achieve. Our curriculum supports children to understand their own strengths and character so that they become confident, resilient, lifelong learners.
UNIQUE
Children will learn about the rights and responsibilities of themselves and others, learning to respect and appreciate everyone’s place in the local community and the wider world.
AMBITIOUS
Our curriculum empowers children to ‘dream big’ by providing opportunities and experiences which inspire them to believe in the possibilities here and beyond.
A BROAD AND BALANCED CURRICULUM
At Ridgeway we aim to provide a broad and balanced curriculum which meets the needs of Ridgeway pupils. We have designed our own curriculum to ensure that children who attend Ridgeway enjoy and achieve. Our curriculum upholds the fundamental core values of democracy, rule of law, liberty and tolerance of all faiths and beliefs. We also feel our curriculum prepares children for the future and gives them the skills and knowledge to succeed not only in the rest of their educational journey, but far beyond this.
CORE SUBJECTS
Our main priority is for children to excel and make as much progress in the core areas of the curriculum as possible. We base much of our planning on basic skills, giving children the opportunity to progress from a solid base. We teach the new National Curriculum for all elements of MATHS and ENGLISH.
OUR APPROACH TO THE NATIONAL CURRICULUM
We have taken the National Curriculum and developed key skills and knowledge from this into a series of subject specific themes. Each subject theme will include hands on activities, memorable moments and will have a great focus on subject specific knowledge and skills. Each subject theme has a knowledge organiser for parents relating to the key knowledge and information being taught.
FARM SCHOOL
At Ridgeway, we understand the importance of developing the whole child and have created our FARM SCHOOL Curriculum, based on strengthening four important areas: teamwork; resilience and self-regulation; emotional expression; and choice and independence. These skills are taught through a spiral curriculum that all children are engaged with every year on our two farm sites, here at Ridgeway and at Jarrow Hall. This unique offer is key in helping us meet the personal, social and emotional needs of our children.
READING AND LANGUAGE
PHONICS is taught through Little Wandle Letters and Sounds throughout the school. We have reading books which we use to aid the teaching of reading, and a packed full library to supplement our reading and other curriculum areas. Children will be taught FRENCH in Key Stage 2.
For more information regarding our the intent for our curriculum at Ridgeway Primary Academy, please click to view our CURRICULUM INTENT STATEMENT.
If you require more information on our curriculum here at Ridgeway, please contact our Academy office using the details on our CONTACT US page.
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