‘Our place in time’

The lessons I learn now, from the people in the past, will inspire me to be someone extraordinary in the future

A leader, an astronaut, a civil rights activist, an explorer, a mathematician, an architect, an artist, a politician, a teacher, a doctor, a scientist, a conservationist, a CEO.

At Carlton Primary Academy, we are committed to providing a curriculum that provides our children with knowledge and skills across all primary subjects, with the aim of ensuring pupils are ready for the next stage of their lives.

Our curriculum is underpinned by our values of:

• Community
• Respect
• Excellence
• Pride

Core Learning

Core learning is integral to the expectation of excellence that runs throughout our curriculum, ensuring that we demonstrate high standards to the children, and that they have high expectations of themselves. There is an emphasis on reading and writing throughout our curriculum, with maths being taught discretely, making cross-curricular links where appropriate. We ensure the effectiveness and demonstrate impact of our core learning through rigorous assessment in our cyclical benchmarking model. Each Enquiry will be led by a Guiding Question, underpinned by spaced questions, which are used to give children the opportunity to use critical thinking skills while designing their end-product to answer the question. Anchor texts are used to engage children in their learning across the curriculum, giving all children access to high quality texts to promote a love of reading. We do this by ensuring that core learning is embedded throughout our curriculum, providing pupils with opportunities to practise and refine the skills they have been taught across a range of contexts. The skills, knowledge and conceptual understanding taught in each Enquiry, build over time and are supportive of each other.  The progression of this Core Learning is systematically planned across the school from EYFS to Year 6 to ensure that children can make the links across year groups and subjects.  To assist with this, staff and children use enquiry-specific Knowledge Organisers to outline the content expectations and vocabulary progression.  The use of iterative assessment ensures knowledge retention over time, culminating in children being able to make links and draw on knowledge to articulate what they have learnt.

Life Skills

Children at Carlton, leave school with the skills to support them with lifelong learning to ensure they can access wider opportunities in their future lives. Our goal is for them to be employable members of the community, who will make valuable contributions to society.  Our children will be challenged, in an environment where they feel safe, and where any mistakes are viewed as part of their learning journey to build resilience and grit. As part of our curriculum, we work with LifeWise to develop well-being, resilience and an awareness of mental health within our pupils. Our children are taught to work in teams, where each team member is valued and has a role to play in order to achieve a collective goal. This enables them to develop excellent communication skills and provides our children with opportunities to explain and discuss their ideas, allowing them to become reflective and considerate learners.  Our curriculum is designed to motivate and inspire our pupils through the use of guided and spaced questions, to develop a thirst for learning, and an intrinsic desire to achieve their goals. This in turn develops focused learners with self-direction, which will enable them to achieve their full potential across the curriculum.

Teamwork          Perspectives       Communication               Environmental preservation                Making connections                      Democracy         Public Speaking     Map reading     Empathy/Critical thinking           Finance/Budgeting         Leadership

Service beyond ourselves

Our curriculum encompasses fieldwork with the expectation that our children will work within, and be, active members of the community. This is embraced and encouraged by members of our governing body, who work with our staff to plan community projects. Our End Products are designed to work with, and support the wider community, including fund raising and working with local projects and businesses. In doing this, we are creating future global citizens, who will be equipped for the challenges and opportunities of life, in a fast-changing and interdependent world.

Members of Parliament/Councillors and the power and responsibility they have            

Equality and Diversity/Activism/Standing up for minority groups            

Raising Money for Local, national and International Charities.   

Conservation of habitats in the local and wider community       

Entrepreneurship and the importance of fiscal responsibility

Helping others in need – Veterans and the Salvation Army

Raising awareness of environmental causes

Pride in our local community