The curriculum is carefully planned at Knightlow C. of E. Primary School for pupils in the Foundation Key Stage, Key Stage 1 (5-7 year olds) and Key Stage 2 (7-11 year olds).

Planning within the school covers an Early Years’ curriculum and also meets the requirements of the National Curriculum. Details of this planning are available from the Head teacher.

Schemes of work are available in each classroom and are planned in detail by the class teacher based on the overall curriculum plan for the school. Specialist advice is sought from colleagues who have responsibility for specific subjects.

The curriculum provides children with opportunities to acquire:-

- A wide range of skills and concepts
- The knowledge, attitudes and confidence essential to
- All round understanding and development

Core Areas

The primary curriculum includes the core areas of learning and experience which are essential to the child’s development and which are now defined within the National Curriculum. These are:

1. Literacy
2. Numeracy
3. Science and technology

For the curriculum to have adequate breadth and balance these must be included:

4. Religious education
5. Personal and social education including sex education appropriate to ages of the children
6. Environmental studies, including history, geography and social studies.
7. Aesthetic and creative arts.
8. Physical education

The key questions in building a curriculum relate to “breadth” and “balance”. In the words of the Education Reform Act a curriculum is balanced and broadly based if it:

(a) Promotes the spiritual, moral, cultural, mental and physical development of pupils at the school and of society; and
(b) Prepares such pupils for the opportunities, responsibilities and experience of adult life.

It is not always practicable or appropriate to provide a balanced curriculum over a short period of time but all subject areas will be given adequate coverage over the period of a school year.