Our Curriculum Explained

‘Successful, Meaningful Futures for All’

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Children typically arrive at Sir Martin Frobisher Academy needing greater exposure to speech and language development; needing to develop a greater vocabulary; needing to be introduced to a variety of ambitious activities and experiences; needing to read a variety of texts, of increased demand and complexity as their fluency improves; needing to learn how to, and to deliberately practice, recall prior experiences and learning through the use of memory retention skills; needing to experience a wide and varied diet in personal, social and emotional development activities; needing to engage in aspirational thinking and choices; needing to see positive, nurturing, trusting and accepting relationships being modelled, across a range of partnerships, cultures, faiths and genders; needing to understand that in order to remain safe, boundaries may well be needed; needing to have the full support of their ‘family’ for the duration of their time at school, and needing to understand that repetition of all these will increase life chances and choice.

Intentional Activities:

All planned learning will begin with a theme. This will typically be focused through a Key Question. Associated key texts and vocabulary will support this. The Learning Journey will begin with a series of planned experiences to ensure ‘immersion’. WIAK (What I Already Know) will be captured, along with WWW (We Were Wondering) questions to ensure full engagement with the planned learning, and to ensure learners’ input can be built upon.
All relevant learning will be context driven, to ensure that connection to past, and future, learning can be made and to enable children to sequentially structure knowledge over time.
Often a ‘provocation’ will be used to ensure that real depth of thought is given to the knowledge being taught, and the skills being used in enabling children to apply this knowledge. The ‘learning journey’ will ensure that all can articulate the learning they have been involved in; make meaningful curriculum connections and can transfer core skills such as Spellings, Punctuation and Grammar (SPaG) across subjects.

Planned for Impact:

High levels of engagement
Improved attendance
Improved vocabulary – a ‘shared language’
A ‘love’ of reading
Curriculum connections
Heightened interest
A ‘willingness’ to want to learn
Improved outcomes

Sir Martin Frobisher Academy utilises a range of assessment information in order to assess and track pupils’ current progress and cumulative progress across their primary experience.​

If you would like to know more about our curriculum, please call the office on 01255 427073 or email [email protected].