CURRICULUM INTENT

At Illuminate Minds, the pupils are at the heart of everything we do. We set high expectations and provide holistic, thrilling and rewarding learning opportunities for all of our pupils to leave them feeling determined and motivated to be active, life-long learners.

We provide excellence everyday, through an engaging and diverse curriculum that harnesses pupils’ imagination. We ensure that cross-curricular opportunities are planned and delivered to meet the needs of all pupils, providing them with a variety of cultural capital experiences. From these foundations, we encourage pupils to be aspirational, critical thinkers; allowing them to become good citizens.

We offer pupils broad and balanced, cross-curricular opportunities, going beyond the requirements of the national curriculum. We have a high focus on vocabulary, key skills and real life experiences building on prior learning, to help them develop academically, physically and creatively into well-rounded individuals. We ensure all pupils possess the relevant skills and knowledge to become confident to enter the next stage of their education.

The core British Values underpins the curriculum, to enable our pupils to become collaborative, resilient learners, who are independent and responsible citizens with global awareness. We provide them with the skills they require to become the future decision makers.

Positive attitudes to learning are embedded throughout, so that the pupils are keen, curious, enthusiastic learners, who are empowered to take ownership of their own learning. Our pupils will ultimately become confident and successful adults who achieve their life goals and dreams.

AIMS

To meet the requirements of the Foundation Stage and the National Curriculum in terms of core and foundation subjects and work within the framework of both Bexley and school policies, specifically to:

• Enable all pupils to learn and develop their skills to the best of their ability.
• Provide exciting and memorable experiences to ensure pupils are inspired to learn.
• Encourage all pupils to become self-confident, self-regulatory and courteous; to set their own high standards and learn to appreciate when they have attained them.
• Ensure all pupils receive a full and varied curriculum which meets their needs and interests.
• Support pupils to reach a high standard of literacy and maths skills through specific teaching and the application of these skills to learning across the curriculum.
• Ensure that knowledge and skills are taught progressively so that pupils build on what they already know and understand.
• Allow pupils to achieve depth to their learning by applying their knowledge and skills in a range of contexts and subjects.
• Teach pupils the essential social and emotional skills, as well as how to keep physically and mentally healthy.
• Encourage pupils to be caring, responsible and active citizens who positively contribute to the local and wider community and environment.
• Balance pupil’s knowledge of their place in the world, with a strong understanding of their locality.
• Create and maintain an exciting and stimulating learning environment.