Curriculum Overview

Racial Literacy Hub School for Southwark

Aims:

At Bird in Bush Primary School, our aims are to provide a broad and balanced education for all children that is coherently planned and sequenced to ensure that knowledge is built upon in each year group, as well as year on year across the school. 

At Bird in Bush, we have developed a knowledge rich curriculum so that children develop an extensive knowledge of the world. Our curriculum aim is to develop the subject knowledge of all of our children; we define progress as knowing more and remembering more. 

Our five key principles are:

  1. Acquisition of knowledge is at the heart of the curriculum 

  2. Knowledge is organised into subject disciplines 

  3. Knowledge is specified and carefully sequenced over time 

  4. Knowledge is acquired in long-term memory

  5. Racial literacy is woven through our curriculum – Our curriculum places an emphasis on teaching children knowledge that reflects and celebrates their own culture and experiences whilst offering them the opportunity to learn about other cultures and experiences.

At the heart of the curriculum provided for our pupils at Bird in Bush School is our decision to ensure that working within the parameters of National Curriculum expectations that we provide a racially literate provision that takes account of our local context. Our curriculum must encapsulate the planned experiences and interactions our children encounter everyday. It is designed to be enriching and stimulating, whilst meeting and exceeding the expectations set out in the national curriculum.

The implementation of our curriculum is tailored to be Racially Literate to meet the needs of our diverse pupil intake and is complemented by a wide choice of resources such as laptops, mathematical equipment and a wide range of texts in English. We utilise the skills of our teachers to inspire all of our pupils to achieve their full potential. We value cross curricular learning and by closely assessing what skills each academic discipline requires, we can create strong links between core and non-core subjects.

Inclusion:

Through these principles, we ensure equal access to learning for all pupils, with high expectations for every pupil and appropriate levels of challenge and support. We are an inclusive school, which provides provision for all – we work to provide scaffold and support to help all children reach their learning goals. We recognise that our EYFS is the important foundation for this knowledge and underpins all future learning. 

Our curriculum aims are underpinned by our values: Aspiration, courage, dedication, integrity and resilience. 

We value children having the aspiration to reach their potential and using their courage, dedication and resilience to work on and understand their new learning.

Equal Opportunities:

At Bird in Bush, we believe that all children are entitled to equality of opportunity within all subjects irrespective of race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, religious belief or background.