Cornerstones Curriculum

The new Cornerstones Curriculum provides pupils with a varied, creative way to learn the elements of the National Curriculum and, within each half term summary, there are activities for parents/carers and children to take part in with family and friends.  This is a great way for children and their families to have fun together whilst supporting their learning.  Please check the information each half term. 

Expectations

Early in the academic year, each class teacher meets with parents to explain the expectations of the children in their class and to provide other important information.  There are also a variety of other handouts which are not available here because of copyright restrictions.  Please contact the class teacher for further details of other handouts regarding subject expectations.

Personal, Social, Health & Economic Education incorporating Relationships and Sex Education

It is now a statutory requirement for primary schools to deliver Relationships Education and the Department of Education (DfE) encourages schools to deliver Sex Education that ensures both boys and girls are prepared for the changes adolescence brings and – drawing on knowledge of the human life cycle set out in the National Curriculum for science – how a baby is conceived and born.

Curriculum Maestro

Since 2018 we have provided a creative curriculum based around the Cornerstones Curriculum: a nationally recognised approach for delivering outstanding learning opportunities for children.

What is the Cornerstones Curriculum?

The Cornerstones Curriculum (now being re-branded as Curriculum Maestro) is a creative and thematic approach to learning that is mapped to the 2014 Primary National Curriculum to ensure comprehensive coverage of national expectations. Our new curriculum will be delivered through Imaginative Learning Projects (ILPs) which will provide a rich menu of exciting and motivating learning activities that make creative links between all aspects of our children’s learning. 

We believe children learn better when they are encouraged to use their imagination and apply their learning to engaging contexts. Our new curriculum will provide lots of learning challenges throughout the academic year that will require children to solve problems, apply themselves creatively and express their knowledge and understanding effectively across the curriculum.
Cornerstones also provide a rigorous essential skills framework that outlines the end of year expectations in all subjects. These essential skills are tied to activities and are age related so that staff can track children’s progress and identify their individual learning needs. 

How it Works?

Children will progress through four stages of learning in each ILP – Engage, Develop, Innovate and Express. To find out more about these stages please click on the link through to Cornerstones website:  https://cornerstoneseducation.co.uk/

The information also provides suggestions for ways in which the family can become involved in the topic. 
Why not try some of the activities at home?

(click on the current subject to download the information - previous topic links have been removed for copyright reasons)
The curriculum for each class is based around a two-year cycle - so we've started again in 2020, but with some changes since all the Minerva Learning Trust Schools are now following a similar pattern.

Phonics information

Currently, we use Letters and Sounds through the Early Years into Key Stage 1. From September 2022 we will be using Read, Write Inc for our phonics and spelling programmes.