Curriculum Overview 

Impact

At Birchensale Middle School, we provide a climate of academic rigour and pastoral care, giving children the skills, knowledge and values, they need to be ready and successful in their next stage of education, develop into responsible human beings and become good citizens Our values of belong, motivate and succeed are central to everything we do.

Skills and knowledge are mapped progressively so that pupils can build upon prior learning and our teachers make adaptations to their teaching to meet the needs of all students and give every student an equal opportunity to learn, discover and achieve.  Our curriculum promotes fluency and accuracy, connects learning and is enabling and deep.

Intent

At Birchensale Middle School, we are privileged to be able to make a difference to the lives of our children and the choices they make about their future.  Our children have an entitlement to the powerful knowledge and skills that will enable them to lead purposeful, successful loves and make a positive contribution to society.

We will achieve this through a well-sequenced, coherent curriculum which:

  • Promotes a love of reading
  • Embeds the powerful knowledge, skills progression and vocabulary development
  • Promotes and provides rich cultural capital and excitement for learning
  • Ensures that every experience and interaction models the positive behaviours we expect to see

Implementation

All lessons follow the ‘Birchensale Middle school Teaching and Learning Model’ which is designed around Rosenshine’s Principles of Instruction.

Concepts build and become more complex as we progress through our curriculum, ensuring that children are constantly building upon, embedding and applying their mental models. Children have an understanding and appreciation of what is needed to improve and they produce quality pieces of work of which they are very proud.

Lessons comprise of distinct sections which support the learning outcomes for our pupils.

  • Retrieve and Recall
  • Prepare for Learning
  • Present New Material
  • Developing Understanding
  • Apply to Demonstrate
  • Review

found in the following curriculum statement.
 

Downloads

Curriculum Statement 2023-24