Oxenhope CE Primary School
Our approach is to provide our children with an inspiring and engaging curriculum which ensures that tomorrow’s generation are able to succeed in an ever-changing new world.
We focus on the whole child, building a curriculum which promotes both academic knowledge and real-life skills. We ensure that we support all learning styles and open the door to future careers to children of all abilities and we pride ourselves on finding every child’s individual strengths.
Community is a vital teaching tool to equip children with empathy and tolerance. We open children’s eyes to the world around them, building on their experiences and helping them find a society where they can contribute and add positive value to both their own community and the world.
We teach children the value of standing up and making a difference, we instil empowerment ensuring children’s voices are heard.
Our curriculum builds a solid foundation of social skills. We offer a curriculum which teaches resilience, coping strategies, conflict resolution, taking responsibility, being reflective, understanding choices, compromising and seeing things through other people’s eyes.
Our curriculum adheres to the National Curriculum whilst ensuring the topics meet the needs and interests of the children, motivating them to gain essential knowledge, understanding, skills and processes of each of the required subjects. Within our foundation subjects, we develop cross-curricular links with other subjects, including core-subjects. We plan regular trips into the community and across the region to expand and enrich learning and the children’s bank of Cultural Capital.
Further to this, we ensure that our core Christian Values are a common thread running through our learning experiences. For example, we carefully choose thought provoking novels where a character will undergo a moral journey, thus challenging our own values and behaviours. In Geography, we learn about other countries and their people, learning that compassion is not just about helping other people less fortunate than ourselves, but ‘standing with them’ by challenging our own behaviours too.
All our teaching and learning centres around teaching our children the necessary skills they need to master our curriculum, with the longer-term aim of preparing children for their journey through High School.
Children leave Oxenhope being proud of their primary journey. They have a sense of a tight knit community and have the confidence, knowledge, and skills to flourish, make connections and relationships and excel at being lifelong learners.
Should you require further information regarding the National Curriculum and the EYFS Framework please go to:
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/national-curriculum
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/early-years-foundation-stage-framework–2
https://www.bdat-academies.org/curriculum/
If you would like to speak to someone at school about the Curriculum, please speak to Mrs Jones, Headteacher, in the first instance.