The curriculum at Stocksfield Avenue Primary School (SAPS) aims to provide exciting opportunities and experiences to promote learning, personal growth and development. We are proud that the SAPS curriculum goes beyond the statutory National Curriculum (2014) and provides a broad and balanced education for all pupils that is coherently planned and sequenced. It also includes the ‘hidden curriculum’, or what the children learn from the way they are treated and expected to behave. Our school rules reflect this: 

• We are kind 

• We are respectful 

• We are safe 

The curriculum extends beyond the academic as we support pupils to develop in many diverse aspects of life. There is a strong emphasis on children’s personal development, including the development of social and emotional skills, resilience, responsibility and respect.  

To deliver this, our curriculum is designed around 3 core drivers. It strives to allow our children to be: 

Aspirational                 Diverse                     Creative 

Within the curriculum, these drivers are complimented by 3 golden threads that we can trace through all subjects: 

         Reading                  Oracy                    Vocabulary 

Reading is given a high priority in our curriculum as the ability to read and understand opens the learning for all our children.  

Our curriculum and classrooms are designed to be rich in talk from effective questioning to constructive peer discussions and teachers use talk skilfully to develop and encourage critical thinking. The ability to speak confidently and express your views are vital life skills that support success in learning and life in general. We are developing this strand further with the support from Voice 21.  

Vocabulary underpins the reading and oracy threads combined. Vocabulary is a key focus to close the language gap and is a cornerstone of our curriculum.  

Children are taught English (including phonics) and mathematics daily alongside weekly non-core subject lessons. The delivery of our curriculum is further enhanced through our specialist music provision as well as our forest school programme and Year 6 residential opportunity. To ensure that progression and balance is maintained across the school, the programme of study for each subject are turned into half termly units and mapped out by subject leaders. Subject leaders are integral to the planning process and understand the pathway their subjects take. Teachers then translate this into smaller daily/weekly timetables where the specific needs of the children are addressed.  

Our curriculum also embodies personal development. We provide plentiful opportunities to do this such as School Council, Year 6 Leadership programme, Playground Champions, School Librarians as well as other volunteering opportunities. We take great pride in our extensive pastoral support and wide-ranging extra-curricular activities.