St Keyna Primary School Where everyone matters and everyone achieves.
Our Curriculum
OFSTED 2026 -
The school is highly successful in ensuring that pupils learn their phonics knowledge and recall multiplication tables accurately.
"This is seen in published outcomes that are significantly above the national average.
Curriculum Rationale
The rationale of our curriculum is primarily to promote children’s learning and development through a broad and balanced, imaginative curriculum. Our curriculum is underpinned by our ethos and values and the needs of our local area, detailed within the six sections of The St Keyna Standard.
As well as covering the requirements of the National Curriculum, we also teach children the key skills to enable them to become effective learners. We believe that to succeed in learning and in life a certain set of skills are required. We have encapsulated these into a set of animal characteristics and endeavour to build them into everything we do.
Our aim is for children to grow into positive, ambitious, responsible citizens. We have high expectations and believe that our children should be given every opportunity to achieve their own personal potential. To support this aim, we offer a wide range of additional extra-curricular activities as well as a variety of trips and visits to enrich our children’s learning experience. We are a Thrive school and seek to support and develop children's emotional and social development and to support their mental health. Click here to read more about our Thrive and nurture.
Curriculum Intent
We aim to develop a curriculum that is broad, balanced and based on a logical, progressive acquisition of skills and knowledge, which we have called 'Groblox'. The acquisition of vocabulary is vital and we strive to ensure that all of the children have tailored access to the knowledge and skills they need to succeed. For a detailed look at the Groblox and vocabulary taught in each year group, please visit the class pages. The St Keyna Curriculum also provides numerous, planned opportunities for children to recall and deepen prior learning, enabling knowledge stored in the long term memory to become increasingly complex. The school plans a thematic approach to learning to stimulate the children.
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For individual subject summaries of intent and implementation please click here.
Reading at St Keyna
At St Keyna, our resolve is to teach reading effectively and encourage a life-long love of reading. This skill underpins our curriculum and allows children access to learning at all stages of their lives, as well as equipping them with an enjoyable activity that provides relaxation and pleasure. Here is a summary of our reading programme. For more information about how the Read Write Inc programme works and how to teach your child phonics please click here.
OFSTED 2026
Pupils retain a great deal of knowledge across curriculumsubjects. This prepares them for secondary school well.As a result of improvements to teaching, gaps in pupils' writing knowledge are being closedsuccessfully, including for disadvantaged pupils and pupils with special educational needsand/or disabilities. For example, younger pupils spell accurately, use a range of descriptivevocabulary and are beginning to use a variety of sentence types. Older pupils write forspecific audiences and use emotive vocabulary with increasing impact