At Newlands, we pride ourselves on delivering a broad and balanced curriculum, that meets the requirements of the National Curriculum and Early Years Foundation Stage Statutory Framework and is also relevant and appropriate for our learning community. We have high expectations for all learners and ensure that they are all supported to make good progress from their starting points.

Our curriculum provides all our children with the experiences and firm foundations of knowledge that they need now and in their future. We use first-hand experiences and enrichment activities throughout our learning to give our children concrete hooks to hang their learning onto. This enables them to build a meaningful cognitive framework that helps make connections and builds toward forming bigger and more complex ideas and so strengthening their learning.

These contextual experiences include visits into school, local investigations and exploration and trips off site further afield.  We further contextualise our learning through cross-curricular events such as  World Book Day – bringing learning to life, providing opportunities to explore links in their learning and building their cultural capital in readiness for their next steps along their learning journey.

Due to the involvement of all teaching staff in the development and review of our curriculum, subject knowledge in each year group is good.  

Good subject knowledge and pedagogical understanding ensures careful planning of learning experiences, giving our children many opportunities to practice, consolidate and embed skills and knowledge, enabling the children to retain and retrieve the information they have attained.

For more details about how we organise our curriculum, please click on the subject links below, and the sections to the right.