Curriculum
Our Curriculum – The Felix Way!
At Felix Primary School we believe in providing a world class education locally enabling every child to flourish.
We have four values upon which we pin our experiences we provide every day:
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Pride
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Achievement
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Resilience
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Kindness
Pride means taking care in everything we do, from the way we learn to how we treat others and our environment.
Achievement is success! We believe all children should be have the opportunity to achieve to the best of their ability in the curriculum subjects as well as in other areas of their lives.
Resilience is a trait which is needed in order for anyone to achieve. Learning and making progress has its challenges and we aim to build resilience in our pupils so they are able to face challenges and conquer them.
Kindness is of paramount importance, and we believe that everyone should be treated with compassion, respect and empathy. This is explicitly taught through our curriculum and through our enrichment activities.
Supporting our values we have three rules:
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Ready
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Respectful
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Safe
Our curriculum is carefully designed to be broad and balanced and carefully sequenced in order to build on the knowledge and skills of every child through each Key Stage. It recognises the needs of individuals and enables them to make progress, whatever their starting point, to enable academic success so they have the learning knowledge and behaviours in order to flourish at high school and beyond. In EYFS, our curriculum meets the expectations of the Early Years Foundation Stage Profile and the National Curriculum and has been mapped carefully by curriculum leaders to ensure this is well sequenced and progressive.
Our aspiration is for all children to develop a life-long love of learning which will, in turn, enable them to be successful adults.
For further information regarding the Early Years Foundation Stage Profile, please click on this link:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/early-years-foundation-stage-profile-handbook
For further information regarding Develop Matters, please click on this link:
To find out about the requirements of the current National Curriculum, please click on this link:
www.education.gov.uk/schools/teachingandlearning/curriculum/primary
Enrichment
At Felix, we want our children to have rich experiences which support them to become responsible citizens as well as successful learners. Our enrichment programme is filled with exciting and engaging activities which introduce the wider world to all our pupils. These enrichment activities take different forms from learning a musical instrument to watching a performance, from visiting a historic site to meeting representatives from different careers. They are built in each subject carefully to ensure breadth of experience for our pupils across their time with us.
The Felix Way – Our Lesson Structure
In our lessons we use a 5 part lesson structure when delivering lessons.
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Do Now
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New learning
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Develop learning
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Independent practice
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Structured reflection
For further information on Felix Primary School's curriculum offer, please contact the school office at: office@felixprimaryschool.org
