Launde Primary School Curriculum

Please use the links to the left to see each individual subject progression of skills.

Below you will also be able to read our statement about how we promote British values in our school and how we teach phonics.

Our Approach to Teaching and Learning at Launde Primary School

At Launde Primary School, our vision is to 'Create Curious Minds, Kind Hearts and Bright Futures'. We believe that an exceptional education goes beyond academic achievement, nurturing the whole child and preparing them for a fulfilling life in a dynamic world.

Our Core Values & Curriculum Drivers

Our teaching and learning approach is built upon our recently developed core values and curriculum drivers. These guiding principles inform all aspects of our teaching practices.

Our Core Values:

• Kindness: We show kindness to each other at all times.
• Respect: We treat others kindly, value differences, and listen to everyone's ideas and opinions.
• Resilience: We embrace mistakes as learning opportunities and stay positive in difficult situations.
• Confidence: We show confidence in being ourselves, speaking up, trying new things, and handling adversity.
• Curiosity: We are excited about our learning and eager to explore new ideas.

Our Curriculum Drivers:

These drivers are intrinsically linked to our core values:

• Critical Thinkers: Our curriculum helps children to actively identify real-world problems, apply their knowledge and skills across contexts, and explore learning through hands-on experiences. We equip them to make sense of complex ideas, solve problems creatively, make smart choices, and spot false information.
• Safe and Well: We believe fostering pupils' safety and well-being is fundamental. This includes promoting emotional literacy, developing healthy relationships, fostering physical health, and building self-awareness and self-care strategies.
• Global Citizens: We prepare our pupils to understand their potential for contribution and impact beyond their immediate experiences. This involves embracing diversity, enhancing cultural awareness, understanding global challenges, and contributing positively to the world.
• Inspired Learners: We want our children to enjoy their learning and be inspired by new knowledge. This driver aims to ignite a passion for learning, encourage genuine interest, develop a growth mindset, and foster creativity and innovation.

Our curriculum and school ethos support the teaching of:

The protected characteristics

Age, disability, gender, marriage, pregnancy and maternity, race, sex, religion and belief and sexual orientation.

British Values

Democracy, rule of law, respect and tolerance and individual liberty.

Healthy Lifestyles

Promoting the value of physical, emotional and mental health and how to nurture them.  Developing children's understanding of healthy relationships and how to cultivate them.

At Launde Primary School, we prioritise creating a safe and nurturing environment where children can thrive. Our commitment to pastoral care ensures every child's individual needs are met. We weave safety education throughout our curriculum, empowering pupils with the knowledge to stay safe in various situations. Additionally, we emphasise the importance of healthy relationships, fostering a positive school community where everyone feels respected and supported.

Curriculum Design

We strategically employ well-regarded schemes of work, such as Kapow and those provided by United Learning, because they offer a sequenced and progressive approach to knowledge and skills acquisition. This ensures learning builds logically, allowing pupils to deepen their understanding over time. These curriculums link seamlessly with our Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) curriculum, championing a love for learning and essential fundamental skills.

Through a collaborative effort, our subject leads, senior leaders, and curriculum specialists have spent the past year refining our curriculum. This process involved a combination of approaches: for some subjects, we meticulously researched and implemented accredited schemes, while for others, we partnered with experts to develop bespoke curriculum offerings tailored to our school's unique needs.

We are committed to actively adapting and personalising these schemes to meet the unique needs of our pupils and vibrant cultural landscape. This includes localising content, differentiating instruction, integrating cultural perspectives, and responding to emerging needs.

Our curriculum features clear, long-term plans for each subject, with knowledge and skills carefully mapped across year groups. This provides teachers with a powerful tool – a roadmap for building upon children's prior learning and guiding them towards targeted next steps. Additionally, the mapping of key knowledge and skills for all learners, including those with SEND or facing disadvantage, empowers teachers to make accurate assessments and tailor their instruction to ensure every child makes steady progress.

We utilize carefully selected schemes of work for various subjects, ensuring progression and alignment with our curriculum drivers. Examples include:

• Art: Kapow scheme, focusing on practical skills, exploration, and celebrating diverse artists.
• Computing: Teach Computing curriculum supplemented with Project Evolve for e-safety, covering themes like computer systems, programming, and online safety.
• Design and Technology (DT): Kapow scheme, preparing children to be critical thinkers through hands-on experiences and skill development.
• Geography: Kapow scheme, a spiral curriculum revisiting essential knowledge and skills with increasing complexity, including fieldwork.
• History: Kapow scheme, with adjustments for local history, fostering critical thinking and exploring disciplinary and substantive concepts.
• Modern Foreign Languages (MFL): Kapow's Spanish scheme for Key Stage Two, focusing on communication, key skills, grammar, and vocabulary.
• Physical Education (PE): Primary PE Planning units, ensuring progression in motor competence, healthy participation, and rules/strategies.
• Reading: Daily whole-class reading lessons focusing on fluency and key National Curriculum skills like vocabulary, inference, and retrieval.
• Religious Education (RE): Adapted from the Leicestershire agreed syllabus, taught in line with our school values of respect and kindness, and fostering global citizenship.
• Music: The Leicestershire-approved scheme primarily focusses on developing key musical skills such as performing (singing and playing instruments), listening and appraising, composing, understanding the history of music, and exploring the inter-related dimensions of music (pitch, duration, dynamics, tempo, timbre, texture, structure, and notation).
• Writing: Our daily whole-class writing sessions use a 7-stage process to systematically build children's writing skills. This process, which moves from sharing and exploring to publishing and celebrating, ensures a clear, gradual development of writing proficiency.
  • • Sharing and Exploring
    • Analysing and Identifying
    • Developing and Demonstrating
    • Planning and Organising
    • Drafting and Writing
    • Evaluating and Revising
    • Publishing and Celebrating
• Maths: The Power Maths scheme, a whole-class mastery programme, focusses on developing children's deep conceptual understanding of mathematical concepts, fluency in number facts and calculations, and proficiency in reasoning and problem-solving, often through a Concrete-Pictorial-Abstract (CPA) approach and a growth mindset philosophy.

Curriculum Implementation

Whilst each subject has its own principles for consistent implementation in classrooms, we have worked hard to develop and embed a teaching sequence to allow children to practise, apply and remember their learning.

Across the curriculum, our lessons follow a familiar structure:

• Let's Get Ready: Reviewing prior knowledge, placing the lesson in wider context, sharing learning objectives, and explaining key vocabulary.
• Let's Learn Together: Explaining new learning in small chunks, modelling concepts ("I do"), and guided practice ("we do") with questioning.
• Show What You Know: Supporting independent learning ("You do"), active teacher engagement, and adaptations for success.
• Show What You Remember: Reviewing learning through various methods and linking back to the unit sequence.

Supporting All Learners

We are dedicated to ensuring all pupils thrive:

• Pupil Premium Children: We prioritise immediate and targeted support, including additional instruction, scaffolding, and pre-teaching new knowledge. They are prioritised for in-school tuition and their progress is closely monitored at all pupil progress meetings.
• SEND: For children with Special Educational Needs, an adapted curriculum is provided to secure foundational knowledge and address gaps. They participate in whole-class input, followed by adapted activities and gradually removed scaffolding to foster independent learning.
• Adaptive Teaching Strategies and Scaffolding: Teachers make changes to instruction to meet the needs of all learners, not just those with SEND or EAL. Scaffolding is temporary support, applied as needed and removed when no longer required.

 

Curriculum Impact

Here at Launde Primary School we want to ignite a love of learning! We empower our students with the knowledge and skills they'll need to thrive in their next educational chapter.

Our aims for children at the end of their time at Launde are for them to be:

Successful learners who enjoy learning, make progress and achieve.

Confident individuals who are able to lead safe and healthy lifestyles.

Responsible citizens who make a positive contribution to society.

We will make sure that our curriculum has its desired impact by:

• Supporting others to deliver the best possible lessons through effective and current CPD
• Regularly reviewing curriculum content and teaching practice to ensure that it is as effective as possible.  This includes making changes where relevant in a timely manner.
• Engaging in reviews with other professionals and acting on feedback.
• Monitoring the delivery of the planned curriculum using learning walks, work samples and pupil interviews.
• Ensuring that children's learning rests in their long-term memory by using assessment during and at distance from learning.
• Celebrating successes and sharing best practice.

By nurturing Critical Thinkers, Safe and Well individuals, Global Citizens, and Inspired Learners, we are dedicated to providing every pupil at Launde with an empowering educational experience that enables them to thrive, lead fulfilling lives, and make a positive impact on the world.