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Our Curriculum

OFSTED 2021 -Leaders and staff share the same high expectations for pupils’ academic and personal success. They are skilled at providing pupils with the right type of support to ensure that they learn well. Parents and carers are fully supportive of the school’s work. Many commented positively on the care and individual support pupils receive from staff.

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.
Leaders have worked with determination to develop a positive reading culture across the whole school from Nursery through to Year 6. Older pupils talk enthusiastically about their love of reading, both in school and at home. Teachers encourage them to read widely and often. Pupils enjoy sharing book recommendations and taking part in the school’s reading challenge programme.
OFSTED 2021

British Values at St Keyna

“At St Keyna, British values link to our Ammonite code. We include everyone as discrimination is not right!” Ella, Y6
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“British values are about being respectful, thoughtful and not about judging people.” Grace Y6
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The DFE have stipulated the need to: “Create and enforce a clear and rigorous expectation on all schools to promote the fundamental British values of democracy, the rule of law, individual liberty and mutual respect of those with different faiths and beliefs.”
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At St. Keyna, we take this responsibility very seriously and believe it is an inherent part of our duty to prepare our pupils for life in modern Britain. As such, these beliefs are encompassed within our school values, which include a strong focus on respect and being a positive citizen. For a more detailed explanation of how we promote British values click here.
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