Our Curriculum at Fawbert & Barnard’s

Curriculum Intent

At Fawbert & Barnard’s Primary School, our curriculum is driven by our motto Learning for Life and underpinned by our core values of Kindness, Respect, Resilience, Responsibility and Trustworthiness. Our intent is to provide a broad, ambitious and inclusive curriculum that enables every child—regardless of background, need or starting point—to achieve highly and flourish personally.

We aim to develop pupils who are:

• Curious, confident and independent learners who embrace challenge
• Fluent readers, articulate writers and secure mathematicians
• Critical thinkers who can ask questions, reason and make connections
• Creative, expressive and imaginative individuals
• Respectful, responsible citizens who value diversity and understand their role in modern Britain
• Resilient problem-solvers who persevere and take pride in their achievements

Our curriculum is carefully sequenced from EYFS to Year 6 so pupils know more, remember more and can do more over time. We prioritise vocabulary, retrieval practice, the explicit teaching of knowledge and skills, and rich opportunities for cultural capital.

Above all, our intent is to ensure every child leaves Fawbert & Barnard’s equipped with the academic foundations, personal qualities and lifelong learning habits they need to succeed in the next stage of education—and in life.

Curriculum Overview

At the heart of our curriculum are the core subjects of English, Mathematics and Science. Alongside this, we highly value our wider curriculum, which includes all other National Curriculum subjects taught through a combination of cross-curricular topics and discrete subject units where meaningful links can be made.

Each topic includes:

• an engaging hook to spark curiosity
• a clear purpose for learning
• an enquiry question returned to throughout the unit
• carefully sequenced lessons that build knowledge and skills

Where appropriate, pupils’ learning is enriched through:

• visits and workshops
• role-play and drama
• artefact boxes and hands-on resources
• outdoor learning in our extensive school grounds
• community links and local heritage

Our curriculum includes an explicit focus on wellbeing, PSHE, RSE, British Values and personal development so that children grow into well-rounded, kind and responsible young people.

 

Curriculum Implementation

Teaching at Fawbert & Barnard’s is:

Ambitious

All children—including SEND and disadvantaged pupils—access the full curriculum with strong scaffolding, adapted teaching and high expectations.

Responsive

Teachers use questioning, live assessment and pupil voice to identify gaps, address misconceptions and adapt lessons in real time.

Coherent

Learning sequences follow progression documents, ensuring teaching is consistent and aligned with curriculum intent.

Engaging and Enriching

Lessons include high-quality modelling, retrieval practice, rich vocabulary teaching and practical learning to secure deep understanding.

We ensure:

• All pupils enjoy and achieve well
• Key knowledge and concepts are securely taught
• Gaps and misconceptions are addressed quickly
• Teaching materials and tasks are ambitious and purposeful

 

Curriculum Impact

Progress is defined as the widening and deepening of essential knowledge, skills and understanding across each key stage.

We aim for pupils to become:

• resilient, reflective learners
• confident readers who enjoy books
• secure mathematicians who reason and problem-solve effectively
• articulate speakers who can talk confidently about their learning
• ready for the next stage of education

Impact is seen through:

• pupils’ work, showing high quality and clear progression
• strong outcomes in statutory assessments
• pupils’ ability to recall and apply learning
• confident use of subject vocabulary
• improved wellbeing, behaviour and attitudes to learning

Teachers assess understanding regularly and use this information to ensure pupils remain on track to meet curriculum expectations. Subject leaders monitor outcomes, teaching, books and pupil voice to ensure the curriculum is consistently effective.

A Curriculum for Life

At Fawbert & Barnard’s, our ambition is simple:
To ensure every child receives a rich, inspiring and rigorous education that prepares them not just for the next stage of school, but for life.