Curriculum Overview
Work hard, be kind, seek adventure
At Badby School, Learning Means the World...
Intent
We aim to offer a curriculum that is exciting, engaging, and highly relevant, empowering our pupils to become independent, well-rounded individuals.
With this in mind, we have implemented a coherent, sequential curriculum model that enables pupils’ learning to connect and progress, year-on-year.
We want to offer high quality teaching and learning for all our pupils that highlights the importance of human creativity and achievement and leads to the development of educated citizens within our own community and on a wider national and global scale. Raising aspirations and enabling our pupils to grow into the best version of themselves is at the heart of this.
We have a strong commitment to the school motto of ‘Work hard. Be kind. Seek Adventure.’ It creates the platform for our pupils to safely explore new ideas to develop their learning throughout their educational journey at Badby.
Rationale for Implementation
We use Dimensions ‘Learning Means the World’ Curriculum as the main vehicle for achieving our outlined intent.
This curriculum is underpinned by four highly relevant world issues, known as the four Cs:-
Culture - Communication - Conflict - Conservation
Communication
We believe that pupils need to understand the immense power of good communication skills in preparing them for the future, helping them build positive relationships and providing them with tools to succeed. As such, we have identified developing excellent communication skills as a priority for equipping our pupils for the future.
We want our pupils to use language that is appropriate to their audience as a means of increasing confidence, encouraging and supporting each other through both verbal and non-verbal communication as part of our strong sporting culture.
Culture
As a school that predominantly represents a white British demographic, with limited exposure to, and little personal experience of other groups, we want to teach our pupils to fully appreciate and embrace cultural diversity, learning about and experiencing a range of different cultural and faith heritages found in wider society.
We want them to value diversity, understand the roots and importance of cultural heritage and to behave in a respectful and tolerant way towards others, regardless of faith, ethnicity, or background. We actively and explicitly promote cross-cultural friendship, respect, tolerance and understanding through ‘Learning Means the World’.
Conflict
We believe that a range of skills should be taught throughout the curriculum in order to build up resilience and helping pupils cope in a range of difficult situations is part of this process. An understanding of responsible, respectful behaviour is an important aspect of learning. With a focus on restorative conversations, we believe conflict is a highly relevant focus for our curriculum. Having a developed understanding of sources of conflict and the importance of seeing things from others’ points of view, we believe, will make a difference to their own choices as they learn more about conflict resolution.
Conservation
We can’t ignore conservation. It is so current that we believe it is essential to teach our pupils about sustainability as part of becoming a responsible citizen. We need them to recognise that this is about helping future generations, not just themselves. They need to be well-equipped to contribute to conservation work, realising what impact their own behaviour has on the environment. Badby has a ‘Green Tree Award’ and we plan to invest in developing this in our grounds by planting more. We especially want them to develop a compassionate and caring attitude to the natural world, learning how to interact sensitively with wildlife. We are particularly excited to be getting some beehives!
Our curriculum narrative begins with Communication, as this underpins and links to the other three focus areas. We have followed this with Culture, because we believe that understanding identity is so important. Next, Conflict which has a focus on the past, specifically learning from mistakes, and anally, Conservation which looks to the future and a better, sustainable world.
We also encourage our pupils to have high aspirations by teaching them about human creativity and achievement through additional Competency Units about famous figures that focus on Creativity, Commitment, Courage and Community.
Work hard |
Resilient and confident Life-long learners |
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Joy |
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Be kind |
Care |
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Tolerant and fair |
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Seek adventure |
Adventure and bravery |
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