Curriculum

We hope you find this information about our curriculum useful to give you an insight into our learning at Peel Brow.

If you require any further information about our curriculum, please visit the school office or contact us at office.peelbrow@visionmat.com

Curriculum Principles

Our Peel Brow curriculum is broad and balanced, providing opportunities for children to experience a wide range of areas of learning and the full National Curriculum. It is underpinned with a rigorous approach to the teaching and learning of reading, writing and mathematics. However, all subjects have value and importance and children will experience all of them throughout their time at our school. 

 

From September 2025 our school organisation has changed so that we have mixed classes.  These classes are-

Nursery and Reception – Ducklings

Year 1 and 2 – Robins

Year 3 and 5 – Kingfishers

Year 5 and 6 – Falcons

SEN Unit – The Hive

 

Mixed year group teaching has strong practice in many schools across the county.  As a school we have invested a lot of time and resource into researching and planning a strong curriculum for mixed year group classes, in line with both the National Curriculum and also our high expectations at Peel Brow Primary School. We have sought advice and worked alongside leaders and teachers from schools with successful mixed year group classes and school hubs for both English and Maths. We believe we have put together an excellent curriculum for our pupils to learn and thrive from.

 

All our subjects are taught progressively throughout our school with clear progressions of skills to ensure that skills and content are introduced and revisited at appropriate times throughout a child’s journey at Peel Brow.

 

Our curriculum ensures we meet all of the statutory requirements of the National Curriculum (2014), but it also goes above and beyond this, providing rich learning experiences and opportunities such as theme weeks, school trips and visitors. This also delivers excellent personal development learning for our children.

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At Peel Brow Primary School, our curriculum aims to deliver:

 

Our curriculum aims ensure that all pupils experience a broad and balanced curriculum where key curriculum driver concepts are embedded into long-term memory. Children build up their Cultural Capital by gaining knowledge that is of use to them for the rest of their lives and curriculum enrichment ensures that all children are provided with a wealth of experiences.  The Trust aims to develop successful learners with high aspirations who are challenged and know how to make a positive contribution to their community and the wider society. Our curriculum development is based on academic research and the cognitive science of how children learn and is designed using our teacher’s experience and knowledge to meet the needs of all our pupils.

Curriculum Organisation

We have carefully planned a two-year rolling curriculum to accommodate our mixed year group structure. This is coherently planned and carefully sequenced to ensure all children will receive the whole curriculum without repeating a theme/topic.

 

Clear progression is established throughout this process, as for each subject and learning challenge there is clear substantive knowledge, which will be new learning for all children and also planned to include increasingly challenging facts for higher attainers, but also progressive disciplinary knowledge that is plotted through each subject’s progression of skills. These ensure that children are challenged appropriately to learn and apply skills in line with expectations for their year group and their starting points.

 

As the National Curriculum is organised in phases (i.e. Key Stage 1), we are able to ensure that all areas of the National Curriculum are taught fully within, and by the end of, the correct phase. This means that for children in Year 1 they will cover some areas in Year 1 and the remainder by the end of Year 2. For children in Year 2, their prior learning in Year 1 has been taken into account to ensure no repetition of themes, and that the KS1 National Curriculum is fully covered by the end of Year 2. Where the National Curriculum gives single year group objectives, these will be covered by the correct year group.

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Please click on the document below to see our wider-curriculum long term plans.  We run on a two year cycle.  

2025-2026 is Cycle B

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Peel Brow Primary School Wider Curriculum.pdf .pdf

INTENT

·       Core texts linked to the Learning Challenge provide purposeful opportunities for writing and reading.

  • Curriculum drivers (Science, Geography and History) provide children with a broad, balanced and ambitious curriculum. Our curriculum goes beyond the National Curriculum by including learning that is relevant to our own locality and the children’s own experiences.
  • All other areas of the curriculum such as: Maths, Computing, Music, Art and Design, Religious Education and Physical Education are taught discreetly and are interwoven where appropriate.
  • By focusing on Cultural Capital, we provide children with knowledge that will be of use to them for the rest of their lives and close the divisions in society. Cultural Capital teaches children to understand the Great British Values and learn more about the best that has been thought and said over centuries.
  • Cultural Capital, enrichment opportunities and subject topics ensure children are experiencing curriculum breadth.
  • Subject concepts are thread through all year groups and ensure that children revisit these concepts over and over, building up their conceptual understanding and knowledge each year.
  • Subject concepts provide a clear progression model and supports the planning, delivery and assessment of children in the wider curriculum; ensuring that learning is a change to long-term memory.
  • A clearly sequenced curriculum allows children to make connections, build on prior knowledge and their experiences and ensures there is challenge and a clear journey within and across year groups.
  • The wider curriculum provides opportunities for children to build up their academic and subject specific vocabulary, write across a range of subjects and apply mathematical skills in other areas of the curriculum.

IMPLEMENTATION

  • Our teachers ensure that that Maths, Writing and Reading are taught daily.
  • The development of our Learning Challenge curriculum is based upon academic research and the science behind how children learn.
  • Our curriculum design ensures that the curriculum has spaced units of work that revisit the key concepts for each of the curriculum drivers allowing children to make connections and deepen their understanding.
  • Subject specific Learning Challenges ensures that concepts are embedded and when cross-curricular links are made, they are done so in a way that strengthens children’s understanding through meaningful links.
  • An emphasis on cultural capital ensures that we prepare children for life in modern Britain.
  • The progression model is used to sequence our curriculum, ensuring that key concepts are built upon each year group.
  • Enrichment opportunities are used to enhance the experiences children have and are used to develop their understanding of the learning that is or has taken place.
  • Retrieval practice is a key element of lessons to ensure knowledge is repeatedly retrieved from long-term memory.
  • Children know and understand our core values of Happy, Successful, Challenged and Proud and these support our pupils to make informed choices and become respectful individuals

 

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IMPACT

  • Our curriculum driver concepts mean that learning takes place over a long period of time; ensuring that knowledge is stored in children’s long- term memory.
  • We compare pupil progress over time using the key concepts which provide a clear progression across EYFS,  KS1, LKS2 and UKS2.
  • Children are able to make connections between subjects and can articulate their knowledge of their locality, the world and its history.
  • Lesson visits, coaching and mentoring ensure that expectations are always high and that teaching and learning is in line with the principles of our curriculum.

Our pupils experience a broad and balanced curriculum and have the knowledge, skills and experiences needed to go on and succeed in their education and life in modern Britain.