Curriculum

Here you can access all information related to our school curriculum, including long-term objectives, termly overviews and the latest curriculum news.

Some subjects follow a two year cycle to ensure coverage and no duplicate learning. This year, 2023-2024, we are following Cycle A. Please click on the subject area you would like to explore:

Phonics	English	Maths	Science
Physical Education (P.E.)	History	Geography	Religious Education
Music	Relationships, Sex and Health Education (R.S.H.E.)	Art and Design Technology	Computing
French

Class Overviews:

For more information about the topics covered in the different class, please click on the link below for the cycle overview:

Below are the topics to be covered in Cycle B, however these may be subject to change before the academic year 2024-2025 starts to ensure curriculum coverage.

Curriculum Background

Introduction

The curriculum at Chapelfield takes account of the New National Curriculum effective from September 2014. The Chapelfield curriculum further develops Chapelfield’s existing Curriculum, and is distinctive in that it aims to put the needs and views of Chapelfield pupils at its heart by ensuring learning is relevant and challenging. There is an emphasis on school visits and “real life” learning through an enquiry based approach. Pupils are encouraged to ask questions and reflect on their learning. In this way our pupils are “learning to learn.”

Emotional Health

We see this subject as particularly important at Chapelfield and it is a key part of our curriculum. Our aim is to encourage children to develop positive attitudes to learning and address any difficulties they may face, by understanding their own feelings and emotions.

Learning covers topics such as “Change,” “Feelings,” and “Going For Goals.” Time is set aside for this learning but these areas also come into all other subject areas as we try to ensure children become “good learners.”

We work closely with parents/carers to assess childrens’ social, emotional and organisational skills. Our partnership with parents to improve pupil learning is a strong feature of our school. We have a full-time Parent Liaison Officer , Mrs. McLoughlin, who is central to this partnership. Mrs. McLoughlin, ensures all our pupils have a “voice.”

Parents/carers can help their child by encouraging them to talk about how they feel and to help them recognise that these feelings are normal – but that it is how we manage them that is important!

In this way, we see emotional and social “literacy” ie. being able to recognise our own feelings and act appropriately on them, as important as literacy itself as a way of raising achievement through increasing children’s resilience and resourcefulness as learners. Persistence and effort, reflected in our School Value of “Commitment,” are qualities we try to develop in our children.

Curriculum Complaints Procedure

The Head Teacher deals with all aspects of the school curriculum and is the first point of contact for any parent who has concerns about what is taught and learned in school.
School rarely receive complaints about the curriculum, but all schools are required to set out a curriculum complaints procedure.
If you contact us we will try to answer any questions you may have in an informal and helpful manner.
If, the concerns cannot be resolved, then a formal complaint may be referred to the Governing Body and from there to the Local Education. Please refer to our Complaints Policy for more information on how to do this.

Still Want To Know More?

If you can’t find the curriculum information that you’re looking for, or want to find out more about our curriculum, please speak to your teacher, or another member of staff.

Chapelfield Primary School

ChapelfieldPrimary School