Our Curriculum Statement

Newbury Park Primary School (NPPS) is a large community school in the London Borough of Redbridge and serves a very diverse multicultural and multi-faith community.

 Our School Curriculum is never static, but constantly evolving and developing towards achieving our vision of inspiring and preparing learners for the opportunities that lie ahead. 

Curriculum Aims

• To inspire our pupils, through meaningful engagement in learning, to realise academic success and personal fulfillment;
• To instill positive attitudes to learning and individual responsibility through our core values and expectations; 
• To develop independence and reasoning skills for informed decision making

Curriculum Structure

 The school curriculum comprises the statutory framework for the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS), the National Curriculum (NC) including RE 2014, the Personal Development & Health Curriculum (PDHC) and the wider curriculum element planned by the school for all pupils. These components are taught as a blend of discrete subjects that can be applied in a cross-curricular way where appropriate. 

EYFS Framework 

This is shaped by the following four guiding principles: 

• Every child is a unique child; 
• Children learn to be strong and independent through positive relationships;
• Children learn and develop well in enabling environments;
• Children develop and learn in different ways and at different rates

National Curriculum (NC) including RE

The NC provides an outline of core knowledge around which teachers can develop exciting and stimulating lessons to promote the development of pupils’ knowledge, understanding and skills as part of a wider school curriculum. The NC document provides the written framework set out in each key stage, which is organised in core and foundation subjects.

The NC sets out the Programmes of Study (PoS) and attainment targets for the three core subjects of English, Maths & Science and the eight other foundation subjects of Art & Design; Computing; Design & Technology; Foreign Languages (French KS2 only); Geography; History; Music & Physical Education.

Provision is also set aside for a daily act of collective worship either as a class, year group or phase and the teaching of Religious Education as set out in the Agreed Syllabus for Religious Education, LB of Redbridge & LB of Havering.

We follow the guidance set out by the Department for Education (DfE) to:

• promote the spiritual, moral, cultural, mental and physical development of pupils at the school, and;
• prepare pupils for the opportunities, responsibilities and experiences of later life.

Personal Development & Health Curriculum

This has been designed like a glue that is set within the provision for SMSC development and contextual safeguarding and acts like a thread with links through the EYFS and National Curricula. It is taught discretely because this helps to ensure coverage and ensure nothing is missed. It incorporates the DfE guidance on Character Education; British Values; RSHE; RRS; Physical Health and Mental Well-being as well as dealing with issues pertinent to our school context.

Wider Curriculum

This provides additional opportunities for pupils to develop important ‘skills for life’ such as self- awareness, teamwork and leadership. It includes; Educational Visits, Extra-curricular Clubs; House Competitions & activities and participating in our Ambassador programme .

Crucially, we work hard to ensure our pupils understand how to keep themselves safe with the ever- increasing use of social media and the need to keep themselves healthy by participating in more physical activity to enhance aerobic fitness and encouraging healthy eating and keeping healthy teeth.

Key features of our Curriculum

We understand that our curriculum is inherently knowledge-based and that pupils first need exposure to knowledge and cultural capital to articulate learning through an ever-increasing bank of vocabulary.

Our curriculum has 3 core elements - Knowledge (content); Skills & Experiences:

• That knowledge (content) is ambitious for our pupils, well-spaced for longer term and deeper learning and enables connections to be made across a range of subjects;
• That skills are first acquired, developed and then applied in a range of contexts;
• That experiences within our curriculum are engaged in - through thinking, feeling and doing.

In order to meet our overall curriculum aims outlined above, we also promote, encourage and foster:

• the development of oracy skills;
• the development of accurate and precise use of vocabulary to articulate thoughts and ideas and express opinions;
• independent thinking through enquiry, immersion activities & problem solving;
• the intrinsic value of hard work in achieving dreams and goals;
• the building of confidence to try new things and meet new people.