The Curriculum at St Gildas 

Where learning and God are one 

The curriculum that we offer is one where every child is recognised as an individual, celebrating and welcoming differences within our diverse school community.  We know that all children are individuals and we provide chances for them to enhance their talents and skills. 

At St Gildas, our intent is to:

• Develop curious and lifelong learners through a broad and balanced curriculum relevant to our school community. 
• Develop independent learners so pupils are ready for the next steps in their lives. 
• Provide opportunities to recognise and celebrate everyone's individuality in learning. 
• Provide opportunities for learning skills to enable children to achieve their full potential and use skills learnt beyond the classroom.
• Allow the children to build resilience and become creative, critical thinkers.

For pupils to achieve this, our curriculum and its implementation is: 

• Give children a broad and balanced, high-quality, knowledge-rich education.
• Progressively plan to build on prior learning and knowledge through the use of small and sequenced steps to develop their long-term memory.
• We use questioning and feedback to address misconceptions so all children are able to progress with their learning.

• Empower children with rich language and vocabulary to foster effective communication and Literacy skills essential for lifelong success and real-world engagement. 
• Provide children with disciplinary and substantive knowledge, with a vision to prepare them for life beyond primary school.
• Foundation subjects are taught through a chunked approach to build on subject specific vocabulary, improve memory retention and recall of knowledge and skills. 

We use our values of Stewardship, Respect, Curiosity, Forgiveness, Love and Resilience to promote positive attitudes to learning which reflect the values and skills needed to promote responsibility for learning and future success.

We ensure that we follow the requirements of the National Curriculum and that knowledge and skills have been carefully mapped out across year groups to ensure we can build on children's prior learning yearly in a clear, and sequenced manner. 

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