Subjects
The Junior school’s curriculum is planned in order to promote learning and personal growth and development. It includes not only the formal requirements of the National Curriculum, but also the various extra-curricular activities that the school organises in order to enrich our children’s experience. It also includes the ‘hidden curriculum’ – what the children learn from the way they are treated and expected to behave. We want children to grow into positive, responsible people, who can work and cooperate with others while at the same time developing their knowledge and skills, in order to achieve their true potential. We endorse the aspirations concerning the National Curriculum and we seek the highest standards of attainment for all our children. We also value the breadth of the curriculum that we provide and aim to foster creativity in our children and to help them become independent learners. Above all we believe in making learning fun.
The aims of our school curriculum are:
- To enable all children to learn and develop their skills, to the best of their ability;
- To promote a positive attitude towards learning, so that children enjoy coming to school, and acquire a solid basis for lifelong learning;
- To promote the Quaker ethos and values through issues in every aspect of the curriculum where appropriate.
- To foster and encourage confidence to engage in and discuss aspects of curriculum.
- To teach children the basis skills of literacy, numeracy and information and communication technology (ICT);
- To enable children to be creative and to develop their own thinking;
- To teach children about the developing world, including how their environment and society have changed over time;
- To help children understand Britain’s cultural heritage;
- To appreciate and value the contribution made by all ethnic groups in our multi-cultural society;
- To enable children to be positive citizens;
- To fulfill all the requirements of the National Curriculum and Religious Education.
- To teach children to have an awareness of their own spiritual development and to distinguish right from wrong;
- To help children understand the importance of truth and fairness, so that they grow up committed to equal opportunities for all;
- To enable children to have respect for themselves and high self-esteem and to live and work cooperatively with others.
