Our Curriculum Intent
Our curriculum for excellence at Oswald Road Primary is primarily focused upon ensuring that pupils are supported and challenged to gain knowledge, skills and attributes to ensure that they are ready for their next stage of education. Ultimately, we recognise that we are preparing our pupils for lifelong learning and effective contribution to the diverse community in which we live.
Oswald Road teaches a curriculum through a subject specific approach to learning, making links across subjects where they naturally occur. Research always underpins the curriculum planning stage to ensure that this informs curriculum provision. Acknowledgement of short and long-term memory capacity as well as cognition overload features strongly in the planning and provision stages of our curriculum.
At Oswald Road we are: skilled readers, confident writers, mathematicians, scientists, historians, geographers, musicians, artists, linguists, theologists, athletes, designers and technologists, inclusive and diverse. We want our children to have no limits to what their ambitions are and want them to embody our core values.
The purpose of our curriculum is to:
- Produce successful learners who can communicate effectively.
- Develop confident learners who are resilient to failure.
- Promote responsible and effective contributors to society.
- Encourage principled, reflective empathetic individuals.
In developing our school curriculum, we acknowledged the uniqueness of our school within the context of its demographic. This has framed the choices of the curriculum content we have made particularly in aspects of the curriculum such as Geography and History.
We enrich their time in our school with memorable, unforgettable experiences and provide opportunities which are normally out of reach. We firmly believe that it is not just about what happens in the classroom, it is about the added value and cultural capital we offer to really inspire our children.
In order to produce effective communicators, there is a focus on pupil collaboration. This is a priority and therefore we provide many opportunities throughout the curriculum to discuss moralistic issues – this ensures that pupils are encouraged to share their views but also are able to listen and respect the views of others within a regulated curriculum context.
We plan with the end points of learning at the forefront of curriculum design. Every subject has clearly defined end points of learning for key stages, year groups and individual lessons. This enables clarity of assessment for learning and determines a framework for leaders to measure curriculum performance.
Reading is a key priority within the school curriculum. There is an acknowledgement that in order to access any area of the curriculum successfully and independently reading has to be a well-developed area of learning for the pupil. We seek to develop fluency, vocabulary and a love of reading within this school.
Our vision is for children to leave our school as young people who are:
- Happy
- Respectful
- Inspired to learn
- Independent
- Aspirational
- Creative
- Self-confident
- Resilient
- Compassionate
- Well rounded
We are confident that our curriculum supports this vision for our children.