Curriculum

Our Curriculum:

At St Anthony of Padua, we believe that children should develop a love of learning through the provision of a bespoke, knowledge-based curriculum and through consistently high-quality teaching.

We aim to:

• Develop a life-long love of reading (beginning with high quality phonics sessions) so that our children are confident, articulate and effective communicators
• Place the gospel teachings of Jesus Christ at the heart of all that we do
• Build a rich knowledge of subject specific vocabulary
• Ensure that our children know and remember more and make connections between their learning
• Ensure that our children acquire and develop disciplinary knowledge that is specific to the subjects that they study e.g. geographer, scientist
• Provide children with wider enrichment experiences which will enhance and further develop the academic subjects e.g. visits, residentials, sport and the arts

Our Delivery:

• We use the DFE approved Systematic Synthetic Phonics (SSP) Scheme ‘All Aboard Phonics’.
• We place reading at the heart of all we do using high quality texts to engage the children and promote a love of reading across the curriculum
• Pre and post learning tasks allow our children to recap previous learning and then celebrate what they have learnt
• Subjects are taught as individual disciplines, with English and Maths skills promoted across the curriculum
• Learning is chunked into small progressive steps that lead on from one another and feed into the following lessons
• The curriculum is carefully sequenced so that children make connections with previous learning and are well prepared for the next phase of their learning journey.
• Formative and summative assessments are used to identify and address gaps in learning and celebrate individual and whole class achievements

Our Children:

Our aim is to develop:

• Confident, articulate and fluent readers
• Effective communicators who can confidently use a range of subject specific vocabulary in context
• Children who grow spiritually and celebrate different faiths
• Knowledgeable children who can make connections between previous and current learning
• Happy and resilient children who can talk about their thoughts and feelings
• Individuals who are well prepared for the next stage of their education