Curriculum Intent
Ephesians 3:17-18 (NIV)
And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ…
Overall Aims and Rationale
We at Holy Trinity Primary School recognise that our school welcomes children and staff from all over the world. We take great pride in celebrating our school community and the continuing changes that occur.
Our Mission statement
Holy Trinity Primary School is a community which holds its Christian character very dear. We aim to provide education of the highest quality, in a Christian context, promoting Christian values by offering broad and rich experiences. This will prepare all of our children to be happy, successful adults, ready to make a confident, positive impact in the world.
Here, adults and children alike are learning together, growing in their faith and understanding, ensuring that all feel included and special. Holy Trinity is a community where all children can flourish and bloom.
How do we ensure that we are ‘Rooted in Christ, Growing Together’?
The Curriculum Ethos
At Holy Trinity Primary School we follow the objectives from the National Curriculum 2014. Using the knowledge we have of our families and the local community we serve, we have designed our curriculum to inspire, engage, enthuse and raise standards for all children. We aim to provide opportunities for personal and academic development where children make links between prior learning and new learning.
Curriculum Intent
- To engage, inspire and enthuse all children.
- To develop our children’s language skills.
- To ensure children have access to a broad and balanced curriculum and a range of new experiences which enrich their knowledge and understanding of the world around them.
- To develop core knowledge and skills through an engaging curriculum making children ready for the next stage of learning.
- To ensure our children are able to develop healthy lifestyles that support their physical and mental wellbeing.
- To enable children to develop their cultural understanding and respect.
- To ensure our children develop an understanding of their identity and purpose and have an understanding of their place in the world.
- To encourage our children to develop a love of reading for pleasure as well as reading to inform.
- To ensure our children can develop and apply their English and mathematics skills.
- To develop links with the local community, Bristol as a city and the wider world.
Whole Curriculum Implementation
- Curriculum overviews contain a clear learning journey, which enables the children to build on their prior knowledge.
- Connections are made between new learning and prior knowledge. Children are encouraged to look for links which connect their learning experiences.
- Children are provided with the opportunity to apply their maths and English skills across the curriculum.
- The use of pre-teaching enables children to access new vocabulary within lessons.
- The children have access to a broad range of experiences, trips and visitors.
- Whole school and class worships enable our children to understand and apply the values of the school.
Curriculum Impact
- We develop life-long learners, prepared for the 21st century world.
- We develop children’s knowledge and skills across all curriculum subjects.
- The work of our wider curriculum will impact on attainment at the end of each key stage.
- Our children successfully transition into the next stage of their life as learners
Our children will believe that they can make a difference in our school and wider community and continue to uphold our values in their lives.
