Curriculum
Intent
At Milton, our knowledge-rich curriculum design is underpinned by the principles that:
- Knowledge is valued and specified
- Knowledge is well sequenced
- Knowledge is taught to be remembered
We aim to equip our learners with the knowledge and skills they need, enabling them to be ambitious about all they can be within their lives, challenge themselves to achieve and celebrate success in a way that demonstrates respect for themselves, their family, their friends, their community and the world within which they live.
Being a church school is important to us and Christian values underpin all that we do within both our learning and social interactions. Our school community is routed in love, friendship and respect where everybody is valued and supported both academically and emotionally. Courage, wisdom, curiosity and perseverance drive our ambitious curriculum and enable all of our learners to thrive and develop a true love for learning during their time with us.
Our staff all share an ambitious vision of what we want our pupils to achieve from our aspirational curriculum and how we can go about achieving this. Our curriculum design has been greatly impacted by the desire to aim higher for our children and families. The long-term curriculum plan demonstrates a coherent, sequenced, curriculum where knowledge is specified, that builds both within a year and across year groups. These foundations for learning are laid right from the beginning in Reception, who access an ambitious EYFS curriculum that is underpinned by seven key areas of learning.
The KS1 and KS2 curriculum, is primarily based upon the National curriculum and is rich in knowledge of many different aspects of the world around them and promotes development of skills that they will need to lead a full and active life within the world they live. All children access our curriculum offer with appropriate adaptations made where needed to enable our children with special educational needs to access every aspect.
We aim to equip our learners with the knowledge and skills they need, enabling them to aspire to all they can achieve within their lives, challenge themselves to achieve and these celebrate success in a way that demonstrates respect for themselves, their family, their friends, their community and the world within which they live.
Impact
Termly assessment is carried out in line with the DEMAT timetable:
- Reading – DIBELS
- Writing – judgement, and involvement in No More Marking
- Maths – Headstart assessments and Complete Maths online testing
- Yr 1 Phonics checks / Yr2 SATs – termly
- Yr6 SATs – termly
- YrR Baseline Assessment – Autumn term
- Statutory Assessments (May/ June) – EYFS assessments, Yr1 Phonics Checks, Yr2 SATs, Yr4 Multiplication Checks, Yr6 SATs
Subject leaders are provided with time to monitor the impact of our curriculum regularly through lesson drop-ins, discussions with children about their work and by looking at reviews of units taught made by teachers.
