At Normanton-on-Soar Primary School our children experience a broad curriculum that aims to go beyond the scope of the National Curriculum. We have developed an ambitious curriculum which prepares children for secondary school and life beyond this. Our ambition is that our children leave us, not only with a secure and fluent understanding of reading, writing and maths, but also with a breadth of knowledge and skills across the full range of curriculum subjects.
Our curriculum is designed so that each subject area is taught discretely although links are made between subjects where possible to deepen the children’s understanding. Our curriculum has been constructed to ensure there is clarity over the knowledge taught within each year group and in each individual subject. However, as well as learning key knowledge and vocabulary, our ambition is that children are also taught the unique disciplines and concepts of each subject, so that they learn how to think, for example, as a historian or as a scientist. As a result, children become well-rounded learners ready to succeed across the full curriculum when they reach secondary school.