Our curriculum

Our curriculum gives Spring Cottage Primary School a distinct identity and ethos, reflecting our values, our place within the local community of Kingston upon Hull, and an awareness of the wider world in which we live.

Above all, we aim to make our curriculum a stimulating experience for all our pupils, laying the foundations for success in life.  

If you should wish to find out more information about our school curriculum please visit our subject specific pages or alternatively copies of any documentation is available from the school office. Termly curriculum newsletters are also sent out by individual year groups so parents and carers have a clear overview of what childrne will learn. 

The curriculum at Spring Cottage is based on three underlying principles: depth, breadth and balance so that all pupils can achieve.

The curriculum at Spring Cottage Primary School is carefully designed, organised so that pupils acquire depth to their learning in all subject areas:

Our definition of depth is; the widening and deepening of essential knowledge, skills, understanding and learning behaviours. We design, organise and plan our curriculum to ensure that children are not merely covering content but achieving a depth to their learning which enables them to use their skills and understanding in all areas of the curriculum. 

Our careful curriculum design and planning means that we build in many opportunities for repetition and practise opportunities for essential knowledge, skills and understanding in every subject. This ensures that children are able to revisit previous learning, which allows them to gradually develop a deeper understanding of the skills and processes within subjects, at their own pace and in the best possible way for each individual child.

Our curriculum is meticulously designed and planned to move the nature of children’s thinking to a higher order deep level of understanding rather than just acquiring new facts and knowledge. 

At Spring Cottage Primary School we carefully design, plan and implement a curriculum which provides breadth for every pupil:

Careful analysis and discussion about our pupils’ backgrounds, life experiences and culture has helped us to design a curriculum with three key priorities underpinning every subject area. We believe that by focusing on the following key priorities our children will be ready to successfully meet the challenges of the next stage of their education and their lives.

Our curriculum priorities are:

1. Aspiration – we aim to provide experiences which show children the wide range of possibilities available for their future.
2. Initiative - we aim to offer experiences which help them to become independent, resilient and resourceful learners.
3. Environment – we aim to provide experiences which help our pupils value their environment and understand their responsibilities towards sustaining their local and global environment. 

We have designed and planned our curriculum to offer a range of experiences which contribute to every child receiving a full and rich curriculum. The range of experiences we offer support and champion our culture and ensures that our children benefit from a full range of academic, spiritual, moral, social and cultural activities. These activities enrich their lives and those of our whole school.

At Spring Cottage Primary School we carefully design, plan and implement a curriculum to provide balance for every pupil:

It is our underlying belief that every child should feel valued and experience the feeling of success in a wide range of curriculum areas. We believe that through the curriculum we can impact on what is in children’s heads and how they feel about themselves, so that they feel clever, confident and ready to tackle any challenge they may face.  We have designed, organised and planned our curriculum to ensure every child receives an appropriate mix of academic and personal development which means that in practice our curriculum places equal importance on core and foundation subjects.

At Spring Cottage Primary School we place high priority on ensuring children’s physical and mental wellbeing are met. We understand that children will not be successful learners unless they are emotionally secure, therefore we carefully design our curriculum and adopt a flexible approach to timetabling to ensure that we can meet and respond to any issues which may arise. Children’s physical and mental wellbeing are as valued and important as academic development.  We carefully monitor children’s progress with their personal development and our well planned and thoughtful approach to SMSC helps to ensure that every child is well cared for and supported. 

Our balanced approach to the curriculum is not at the expense of high standards in core subject areas. High standards and enabling children to reach national expectations and above is of vital importance if they are to succeed at the next stage of their education and go on to achieve full and happy lives and careers. Our full and rich curriculum, with its excellent range of experiences, ensures that every pupil at Spring Cottage Primary School makes excellent progress both academically and personally.

Our unique curriculum ensures that every child is given the opportunity ‘to make the most of everyday.’