Intent:

We promise to do the best for all our pupils with everything that they learn. Children who attend our schools are supported to access the full curriculum. Our Christian ethos and values underpin all that we do within our learning and the wider activities in our school.

Our curriculum is designed and focused on equipping our learners with the knowledge and skills they need to achieve their dreams. We aim to grow their confidence, develop their social skills, and equip them to become active participants within their communities.

We maintain high standards and continually look at new ways of teaching our pupils the skills they require, explicitly and directly. Our curriculum is knowledge-rich, specifically sequenced, and is taught to be remembered. It promotes the spiritual, moral, cultural, mental, and physical development of our pupils and prepares them for the opportunities, responsibilities, and experiences of later life. With this in mind the Primary Knowledge Curriculum is used trust wide for foundation subjects.

A knowledge-rich curriculum exposes children to ambitious content that has been highly specified and well-sequenced, leaving nothing to chance. Within schools, time is limited, and a knowledge-rich curriculum ensures that each moment will support children in acquiring the knowledge, skills and cultural capital that they will need to become well-educated citizens of the future. Utilising cognitive science, the psychology of learning, memory and schemata, a knowledge-rich curriculum is designed to ensure that the knowledge is taught to be remembered. At its core, a knowledge-rich curriculum democratises knowledge – it enables all children, regardless of socio-economic background, to be provided with the opportunities to succeed in later life.

As part of DEMAT we use The Cambridgeshire PSHE Service. The aim of our PSHE Curriculum is to help our pupils develop the knowledge, skills and attributes they need to keep themselves healthy and safe and prepare for life and work in modern Britain. As a Church school we are rooted in the love of God and others. We choose to respect and encourage one another and to be responsible citizens in our community and our world. Through PSHE education, we will help pupils to develop the knowledge, skills and attributes they need to manage many of the critical opportunities, challenges and responsibilities they will face as they grow up and in adulthood.

Implementation:  

At Farcet C of E Primary School we teach mixed age classes from Year One to Year Six. Our classes are structured into four classes: Reception EYFS, Year One/Two, Year Three/Four and Year Five/Six.

To ensure complete and thorough coverage of our curriculum, we follow a two-year teaching cycle comprising of Cycle A and Cycle B. Reception EYFS follow a single year curriculum that is completed each year. The following curriculum maps outline the sequence for teaching the units of the PSHE curriculum across the two cycles.

PSHCE is organised into four main areas:

·      Citizenship

·      Myself and My Relationships

·      Healthy and Safer Lifestyle

·      Economic Wellbeing

These units are arranged across the year groups so that the children to develop skills and attributes such as resilience, self-esteem, risk-management, team working and critical thinking in the context of themselves and modern Britain, along with the chance to compare and contrast them with other communities in the wider world. Children are given a lot of information from their teachers but also have the chance to research subjects themselves to gain knowledge from other sources as well as follow lines of enquiry they find personally interesting.

Impact:

Our PSHE curriculum is high quality, knowledge-based, well-sequenced and is planned to demonstrate progression. If our pupils have understood and retained knowledge from the carefully sequenced curriculum we have taught, we know that they are where they should be.

At Farcet C of E Primary School we ensure that children are equipped with reflective and personal social emotional skills and knowledge that will enable them to be ready for the curriculum at Key Stage 3 and for life as an adult in the wider world. We want the children to have thoroughly enjoyed learning PSHE and the world around them, therefore encouraging them to undertake new life experiences now and in the future.