Our Curriculum
CURRICULUM FOR WALES
Our curriculum vision (statement)
At St John Lloyd RC Primary School our curriculum will:
• Establish a learning community where all pupils and staff are ambitious and confident to express ideas, take risks and reflect, whilst acquiring new knowledge and skills to challenge themselves to achieve the highest standard
• Encourage creative, critical, and collaborative skills, embracing enterprising challenges and celebrating the achievements of all pupils and staff.
• Engage fully and responsibly as active, respectful, ethical citizens of an inclusive local, national, and global community.
• Nurture and promote the health and wellbeing of all pupils and staff in a safe, supportive, and stimulating environment.
The curriculum at SJL is organised into 6 Areas of Learning and Experience (AOLs):
- Expressive arts
- Health and well-being
- Humanities
- Languages, literacy, and communication (including Welsh and modern foreign languages)
- Mathematics and numeracy
- Science and technology
- Religion
The THREE Enablers
Who? Why? How? What? - Our Curriculum Development
The 'Why?'- Reason & Purpose of OUR Curriculum
The 4 Purposes
The 4 purposes are at the heart of our new curriculum. They will be the starting point for all decisions on the content and experiences developed as part of the curriculum to support our pupils to be:
- Ambitious, capable learners ready to learn throughout their lives
- Enterprising, creative contributors, ready to play a full part in life and work
- Ethical, informed citizens of Wales and the world
- Healthy, confident individuals, ready to lead fulfilling lives as valued members of society
The pupils at SJL have designed and developed 4 PURPOSES characters to help them in their activities and experience to think about which purpose they are using, introducing our 4 PURPOSES HEROES:
A Reason for Learning - Using Purposeful Learning intentions & Success Criteria
The 'HOW?' - Agreed Pedagogical Principles For Teaching and Learning
The 'WHAT' - A Thematic approach to OUR Curriculum
So WHAT will we teach our pupils in the Curriculum for Wales? A THEMATIC APPROACH. We decided to use a THEMATIC APPROACH to our learning to enable more purposeful cross-curricular learning, thus encouraging our pupils to make links and concepts. We have developed a progressive TWO-YEAR CYCLE linked to the Areas of Learning (AOL).
The mandatory cross-curricular skills of literacy, numeracy and digital competence are essential for learners to be able to access knowledge. They enable learners to access the breadth of a school’s curriculum and the wealth of opportunities it offers, equipping them with the lifelong skills to realise the four purposes.
OUR 'CYNEFIN' Curriculum
INVOLVING ALL STAKEHOLDERS IN OUR CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT
Parents Viewpoints/ ideas
Pupil Voice & input into their learning
How do pupils have a say in what and how they learn?
Stage 1
Pupils work in talk partners followed by whole-class feedback sessions to create a baseline on the chosen topic, for example WW2. This collaborative process is uses as a comparison and planning tool. This is then placed on the class learning journey wall
Stage 2
Staff & pupils create a CO-PLANNER for the themes. This plan is split into three sections:
a)Learning aim b) Questions to investigate c) Learning experiences
The ‘questions to investigate’ are then used to develop the class collaborative ‘wonder wall’
Four Purposes