Our Curriculum
OUR CURRICULUM
At Chennestone, we recognise the importance of our curriculum in creating ambitious, capable, lifelong learners. We have high aspirations for our children, and seek to help shape healthy, confident individuals who are not only prepared for further education, but for roles as valued members of society.
Our curriculum is designed not merely to push children through a pre-determined set of skills, but to encourage curiosity, enquiry and to support our children to realise their full potential.
Broad, balanced, conceptual and connected
What we teach is carefully considered, and endeavours to keep our school values and community in mind.
Our curriculum is planned, purposeful and with clear intent. It has been sequenced so that new knowledge and skills build on what has been taught before and towards clearly defined end goals. Each subject is unique, and includes its own substantive and disciplinary knowledge. Substantive knowledge relates to the core facts, ideas and concepts which are central to the subject. Disciplinary knowledge, on the other hand, relates to how scholars and academics within each subject (discipline) arrive at this knowledge. Our curriculum ensures that all pupils carefully build a comprehensive knowledge.
We create a language-rich environment, with texts selected to broaden knowledge, enrich and engage children with new ideas and concepts.
Underpinning our curriculum is the understanding that our children must develop the tools to express and articulate their own experiences and understanding. We consistently build in opportunities which enrich our students’ experiences – trips, visitors, talks; exposure to current affairs, artists, foods, dialects – which will enable our children to acquire cultural capital.
We ensure a balance of genders, cultures and ethnicities in what we show the children.
We strongly value having the courage to fail, the resilience to try again and the determination to succeed in all we do.
‘The more you know, the more you can know.’
Through Quality First Teaching, staff in school model curiosity and determination to succeed. Teachers demonstrate a desire to think more deeply about the subjects being taught and convey a passion for learning. Our adults are ambassadors for learning.
At Chennestone, we provide equal access for all learners, and ensure that our diversity is recognised, celebrated and nurtured. Our children value all areas of the curriculum, and produce work of a high standard of which they are proud.
Our curriculum is fully inclusive for all children – we strive to ensure that all of our children’s needs are met.
More information can be found in our dedicated ‘SEND‘ information page.