Welcome To Our Enrichment Curriculum

Our curriculum is currently under review. Please check back here shortly to see our revamped units of work for each year group.

Our enrichment curriculum encompasses all the subjects of the National Curriculum. It has been specifically designed to ensure rigour in the development of subject specific knowledge and skills. Consideration has been given to the progression in each subject, ensuring our children are enabled to think deeply and build sophisticated schema. It makes certain children are able to understand how the new information they are being taught fits with that already known, so that they can develop coherent skillsets to become historians, musicians, artists, designers, geographers, scientists and programmers.

Children here set the foundations for becoming life-long learners, who are excited by challenge and gain joy from acquiring new skills and knowledge.

As a church school, our Christian ethos is at the heart of all we do. Our work as a school and our curriculum are underpinned by the values of: Cherishing and Compassion, Inspiration and Resilience, Hope and Forgiveness, Unity and Diversity.

We equip children to have 'hope and a future' and are prepared to be innovative and bold with our curriculum delivery. Our children need to receive outstanding education in all areas of the curriculum and we aim to ensure it provides the motivation, the skills, and the level of challenge that make this possible.

The Churchill Enrichment Curriculum is designed to help pupils:

1. To develop lively, curious and enquiring minds, together with a positive desire to learn, to question and discuss rationally, and to apply themselves intelligently to tasks.

2. To experience the joy and satisfaction of creativity.

3. To consider the religious, spiritual and moral values of others, and to consider their own attitudes, values and beliefs.

4. To acquire knowledge and skills which prepare them well for secondary education and which are relevant, in a changing world, to their adult lives at work and at leisure.

5. To understand the history and present condition of their own society and the world in which they live and the interdependence of individuals, groups and nations.

6. To develop a sense of self-respect and individual worth, a capacity to live as independent, self-motivated adults and the ability to live and work in co-operation with others.

7. To develop positive qualities of empathy and imagination and an appreciation of human achievement and endeavour.

Please Note:

We have recently updated our curriculum and changed the provider for some subjects. In this transition year, there are a couple of necessary changes to topics, so that we can ensure that all children have full coverage and that there are no topics repeated. Please see below the transition topic grid for History and Geography for 2024-25. Yellow topics are topics which are being taught in the correct year group, but at a different point in the year. Green topics are topics taken from another year group to ensure coverage.

SMSC

What is SMSC?

SMSC is the Spiritual, Moral, Social and Cultural development of the children in our school. This is not a separate subject that is taught explicitly but an aspect of learning that should be present in lessons and behaviour in school. Some lessons lend themselves more easily to direct SMSC development such as PSHE and RE. We also aim to develop SMSC through worship, behaviour expectations and our attitudes in school.

British Values

As articulated in the Government’s ‘Prevent’ strategy of 2011 we have a focus on the core British values which are: Democracy, The Rule of Law, Individual Liberty, Mutual Respect and Tolerance of those of different faiths and belief.

Through our SMSC provision we:

• Enable students to develop their self-knowledge, self-esteem and self-confidence.
• Enable students to distinguish right from wrong and to respect the civil and criminal law of England.
• Encourage students to accept responsibility for their behaviour, show initiative, and to understand how they can contribute positively to the lives of those living and working in the locality of the school and to society more widely.
• Enable students to acquire a broad general knowledge of and respect for public institutions and services in England.
• Further tolerance and harmony between different cultural traditions by enabling students to acquire an appreciation of and respect their own and other cultures.
• Encourage respect for other people.
• Encourage respect for democracy and support for participation in the democratic processes, including respect on the basis on which the law is made and applied in England.

This underpins our ethos to developing SMSC in school. We ensure opportunities for developing the British Values through our SMSC. 

How Do We Ensure There Are Opportunities To Develop SMSC?

At Churchill, we recognise that the personal development of children, spiritually, morally, socially and culturally, plays a significant part in their ability to learn and achieve. We want to give each child the opportunity to explore social and moral issue; develop a sense of social and moral responsibility and promote the British Values. We therefore aim to provide an education that provides children with opportunities to explore and develop:

• Their own values and beliefs

• Their own spiritual awareness

• Their own high standards of personal behaviour

• Their team and collaborative skills

• A positive, caring attitude towards other people

• An understanding of their social and cultural traditions

• An understanding of democratic processes and the law in England

• An appreciation and acceptance of the diversity and richness of their cultures

• Their opportunities to experience other cultures

• Their ability to celebrate each other’s successes

• Their access to a range of educational visits

Religious Education

Please note that in the UK parents have a right to withdraw their child from Religious Education. As a Church of England school, this is highly unusual for any parent to exercise this right, but if it is something you would like to discuss, please contact the school office to make an appointment with the headteacher.