At All Faiths Children’s Academy, we aim to bring learning to life by providing high quality teaching and inspirational learning activities which link to all areas of the curriculum.
We:
- expect all our children to make as much progress as possible;
- provide an environment where children can feel secure, be imaginative, are able to take risks and make mistakes, without damaging their self-esteem;
- encourage responsibility – enabling every child to become independent and ambitious;
- promote curiosity – fostering lively and enquiring minds to develop the ability to question and reason.
Implementation:
At our school, we are committed to delivering high-quality teaching and learning that enables every child to achieve their full potential. Our curriculum is carefully designed to provide a clear progression of knowledge and skills, ensuring pupils build on prior learning as they move through the school.
From Reception to Year 6, learning is structured to help children develop a secure understanding of key concepts over time. Teachers use effective strategies such as explicit instruction, modelling, purposeful questioning and regular opportunities for retrieval and application, helping pupils to retain knowledge and make meaningful links across their learning.
Teaching is adapted to meet the needs of all learners. Ongoing assessment allows staff to identify strengths and next steps, ensuring support and challenge are appropriately matched to individual needs. Pupils with SEND, those who are disadvantaged and children who may encounter additional barriers are supported through carefully planned adaptations, targeted interventions and high expectations, enabling all pupils to succeed.
We enhance classroom learning through a rich range of experiences, including educational visits, visiting speakers, community partnerships and Forest School opportunities. These experiences help children broaden their horizons, develop confidence and gain a deeper appreciation of the wider world.
Subject leaders play a key role in maintaining and developing high standards across the curriculum. Through activities such as lesson observations, work scrutiny and professional dialogue, they monitor the quality of provision and identify areas for further development. Staff engage in ongoing professional learning, ensuring their subject knowledge and teaching practice continue to evolve, supporting consistency and excellence throughout the school.
Curriculum Principles:
To ensure that our pupils can maximise their academic achievement and to promote pupils’ spiritual, moral, cultural, social, physical, emotional and mental development, our curriculum will:-
- be relevant, meaningful, engaging and enjoyable, providing pupils with an appropriate ownership and responsibility for their learning and behaviour;
- be linked to life beyond the classroom and designed to enable pupils to make a positive contribution to society;
- develop the “whole” child;
- promote aspiration in pupils, parents and carers;
- positively create an ethos and environment to develop pupils as independent, creative and analytical “thinkers”;
- be flexible, enabling all pupils’ needs to be acknowledged, responded to appropriately and met;
- use first hand practical experiences whenever possible and high quality resources making best use of the local environment;
- be developmentally appropriate (without putting restrictions on a pupil’s ability to achieve at the highest levels) and therefore, develop a depth of understanding and a secure knowledge base;
- promote the acquisition of basic skills in literacy, numeracy, computing and “thinking”;
- ensure that pupils can apply and use the skills and ideas developed in one area of learning, to another;
- instil a fundamental respect for religious, moral and democratic British values, which includes tolerance of other races, religions and ways of life and which helps pupils to understand the independence and interdependence of individuals, groups and nations, in order to create equality of opportunity.
