Our Curriculum intent:

"At St Teresa’s Catholic Primary School, we provide an enjoyable and engaging curriculum that promotes critical thinking and high aspirations in our students. We equip our children with the vocabulary, communication skills and cultural capital to achieve social mobility and economic independence in adulthood. Through our faith and the gospel values, we instil a sense of justice, kindness and community in our students that they will retain for the rest of their lives."

(The phrases: "enjoyable and engaging", "critical thinking", "high aspirations", "vocabulary", "communication skills", "cultural capital" as well as our faith and adherence to Gospel values serve as a "Golden Thread" throughout all of our subject-specific curriculum inents. )

Adherence to the National Curriculum

The school follows the National Curriculum in all subject areas.

In line with  National Curriculum expectations, we offer a broad and balanced curriculum that promotes pupils’ spiritual, cultural, mental and physical development and prepares them for the opportunities, responsibilities and experiences of later life.

Children’s learning from our delivery of The National Curriculum develops the essential knowledge that they will need to be educated citizens

The Learning Wheel:

We seek to develop children as self-reflective, independent learners. We encourage children to develop as confident individuals and recognise the wide range of skills and talents that our children possess.

We designed our St Teresa’s Learning Wheels to drive learning in EYFS and KS1 & KS2.

Adaptation:

We believe that children should be challenged as well as supported in order to achieve their maximum potential across all areas of the curriculum, regardless of need, background or starting point. Our engaging curriculum, which incorporates creative and inspiring contexts for learning, will both support and prepare our children fully for life in modern Britain.  We carefully plan and deploy resources to support our most disadvantaged students and help them to maximise their progress. 

Learning Behaviours

At St Teresa’s Primary School, we believe that learning should be exciting, purposeful and challenging. We learn through Gospel values. Our school aims to inspire and prepare every child to have high expectations of themselves and others. We will achieve this through providing a creative and challenging curriculum which motivates and encourages all children to reach their potential through classroom learning, sports and field trips. We will prepare our children to encounter opportunities with resilience, perseverance and self-determination and encourage them to grow and become responsible independent learners by being confident, proactive and motivated.

We use our Learning Behaviours (designed by pupils) to promote strong learning behaviours.

We work closely with the children, their families and the local Parish community, fostering positive supportive relationships to benefit all pupils of the school. We are determined for all our pupils to achieve and believe that our emphasis on high quality teaching is a key feature of our success.