The curriculum represents the entire experience of the child within our school. It is anything that is planned and designed to improve pupils’ knowledge and skills.

At Caldecote, pupils access an enriched educational experience. The Caldecote Tree summarises what our curriculum encompasses in its entirety.

 

The Roots

The roots represent our school values: Respect, Responsibility and Resilience.

These qualities underpin everything we do. Pupils are actively encouraged to develop and demonstrate these values and they are publicly celebrated in a community assembly each week.A strong understanding of and commitment to these values see us flourish with humility through times of success and hold us steadfast through times of challenge.

 

The Trunk

 

The trunk of the tree represents our vision: to create happy, healthy citizens, who show resilience in the face of challenge and who strive to be the best version of themselves.

This is encompassed by our motto:

Happy, Healthy, High-Achieving.

 

The Branches

 

The branches of our tree represent the first of three broad aspects of our curriculum: Our Personal Development Offer.

We recognise that psychological safety, a sense of belonging and high self-esteem are critical to supporting good learning. Our Personal Development Offer actively promotes and nurtures this; we want our pupils to grow into respectful, responsible and resilient people who aspire to become leaders of the future. We aim to develop pupils’ confidence and knowledge so that they can keep themselves mentally and physically healthy and develop a passion for people and our environment.

Our daily interactions with pupils support personal development in every aspect of school life, alongside a number of deliberately planned approaches.

 

The Leaves

 

The leaves represent the second of three broad aspects of our curriculum: Our Core Curriculum Offer.

Our core curriculum offer, based on the National Curriculum, is broad and balanced. Time is allocated for all subjects to be delivered with equity.

It is carefully tailored to match the needs of pupils in alignment with our contextual information, our golden threads (Diversity and Culture) and our school values.

Deliberate choices in the selection of our themes (e.g. stimulus and purpose for writing) and resources (e.g. book or text choice) create meaningful learning for our pupils in line with our golden threads.

 

The Fruit

The fruit represents the final of three broad aspects of our curriculum: Our Wider Curriculum Offer.

There is a diverse extracurricular menu of activities in place that strengthens our offer. Pupils have access to a wide, rich set of experiences to develop their talents and interests.

There is a strong take-up by pupils of the opportunities provided and our disadvantaged pupils consistently benefit.

Click on the links for the subject curriculums including assessment criteria