Curriculum Overview

Our Curriculum

At Beechwood Primary School, our curriculum is based on the September 2014 National Curriculum for Key Stages 1 & 2 and the Early Years 2021 framework in Reception. Our rigorous, well planned curriculum, combined with high quality teaching, ensures that children are well prepared for life; equipping them to be thoughtful citizens and life-long independent thinkers and learners who can confidently face the challenges of the technological world. Enjoyment is a key feature of our lessons and teachers plan interactive, exciting lessons that engage and challenge all children.

Spiral Curriculum
 
In all of our subjects, we have designed our curriculum as a spiral curriculum with the following key principles in mind:
 
Cyclical: Pupils return to the key knowledge and skills again and again during their time in primary school.
 
Increasing depth: Each time a skill is revisited it is covered with greater complexity.
 
Prior knowledge: Prior knowledge is utilised so pupils can build upon previous foundations, rather than starting again.
At Beechwood, we have carefully designed our curriculum into a three year rolling cycle to take into account that in Key Stage 2, we have mixed aged classes of Y3/4 and Y4/5 in some of the areas of the curriculum. We have ensured that through our design, all children build upon their prior learning and are challenged to achieve thier full potential.