Curriculum
The curriculum at St. John Bosco Catholic Primary School aims to meet and exceed the requirements of the National Curriculum and is underpinned by the values of Catholic Social Teaching.
Our curriculum is designed to ensure coverage, progression and challenge to make learning irresistible for all of our pupils. The curriculum sequencing and connections between units of learning provides pupils with continuous opportunities to revisit learning and acquire knowledge, skills and understanding to the point of clarity, automaticity and confidence. Our curriculum is ambitious, sequential and engaging.
Through our curriculum offer, we want our pupils to develop academic, spiritual, moral and social skills so they can make a positive contribution to their school, parish, community and the wider society by becoming global citizens ready to take their next steps into society. We seek to raise aspirations, engender a sense of personal pride in achievement, provide a purpose and relevance for learning and ultimately help every pupil to find their strengths and interests. Pupils at all stages of their learning, are helped to achieve their potential, recognise their strengths and identify what they need to do to improve. Pupils are challenged in their learning and encouraged to expand their skills and knowledge through varied curriculum opportunities.
We review the curriculum regularly and constantly assess the impact on outcomes for all pupils and remodel it where necessary in order to help all pupils perform well.
Our Curriculum vision is to have uncompromising aspirations for every child in our school and to provide a quality of education, which is broad, balanced, relevant and challenging for all – regardless of individual starting points. This is not only to fulfil statutory requirements but to meet the needs and interests of our pupils.
Senior leaders, together with curriculum leads and teachers ensure that our curriculum is inclusive and is adapted appropriately to meet the needs of all learners – including those with SEND. Our school provides individual learning assistance to those who may require it, including use of our Sunshine alternative resource provision.
If you would like further details on our curriculum then please speak to Mr Ginder, our curriculum lead. His email address is shane.ginder@st-johnbosco.sandwell.sch.uk
Read more information below:
Year Group Curriculum Overviews
Find out what we are learning in each year group during the academic year:
Subject Curriculum Information
Flashbacks
In order to help our children know more and remember more, we use flashbacks in all lessons. These are used to look back at previous learning to help us reflect on what we already know and make links with our new learning.
Knowledge Organisers
We have produced our own Knowledge Organisers for every unit in all subjects. These are sent home every half-term for parents to use to further support their child as well as used on displays in classrooms to help the children.
Here are a small sample of our knowledge organisers:
- Example Knowledge Organiser – Online Safety
- Example Knowledge Organiser – Team Games
- Example Knowledge Organiser – Year 2 Non-Chronological Reports
- Example Knowledge Organiser – Year 3/4 Fractions
- Example Knowledge Organiser – Year 4 Sound
- Example Knowledge Organiser – Year 5 Rivers and Canals
- Example Knowledge Organiser – Year 6 Mechanisms: Fairground Ride