Mission Statement:
‘We believe that effective learning is delivered best in a happy, secure and stimulating environment where all learners are able to grow in confidence and fulfil their potential. We consistently promote high standards of work and behaviour by inspiring a love of learning within a creative, experiential curriculum that celebrates success, inclusion and pride in our community.’
Coastlands CP School Curriculum Summary
Our curriculum has been co-constructed through engaging with all stakeholders and will meet the following requirements:
Our vision
Our curriculum will be responsive to change and the needs of our pupils.
It will be progressive and developmental offering balance and breadth whilst ensuring that the rich learning opportunities that surround us are fully utilised.
Our curriculum will utilise the rich and varied rural and coastal environment that surrounds us. It will identify opportunities for working locally in later life in industries such as tourism, farming and those found outside of our locality.
Through their learning pupils will understand the journey of food from farm to fork and the importance of our rural economy.
Our curriculum will ensure pupils gain a historical understanding of how the rich environment around us encouraged settlement and how our locality changed and developed over time. This will involve visiting local historic places such as St Bride’s, St David’s, the local churches and priories, castles and landscape.
Our pupils will be supported to understand the privilege of living in such a beautiful area and how this contrasts with the experience of others living in urban environments.
Our school curriculum will ensure that any issues of geographical remoteness and economic disadvantage are addressed through providing pupils with opportunity to experience the highest quality possible of art, museums, music, technology, literacy etc. This will mean our curriculum will include visits to enable pupils to access these and visitors to widen their experiences.
As a school we will ensure that our curriculum reflects a global perspective and develop our pupils’ inclusive multi-cultural understanding of Wales and our diverse world which is outside of their environmental experience. The curriculum will compare and contrast locations around the world with the Dale peninsula drawing comparisons and highlighting differences.
In our school we will make the acquisition and development of the Welsh language a priority as we have a tiny percentage of pupils who have Welsh in their home environment. Cenefin is a thread that runs throughout our curriculum. Our curriculum will reflect pride in our heritage and our commitment to ensuring our future as a responsive, progressive, ambitious and forward thinking nation.
Our curriculum will place sustainability at the heart of our learning. It will be skills driven and prioritise the needs of all individual learners.
Our learners will be healthy and confident individuals, curious and resourceful to become life-long learners.
Our learners will develop confidence in their identities as they explore, demonstrate, make decisions and value skills and knowledge that will support them to be creative, ethical, capable, empathetic and informed citizens of their communities.
Our values
- Respect and trust
- Wellbeing, safeguarding and care
- Happiness and enjoyment
- Resilience, confidence and independence
- Cenefin and bilingualism
- Community and empathy
- Taking risks, innovation and aspiration
- Support, collaboration
- Equity and inclusion
The four purposes
The four purposes are the starting point and aspiration for our school curriculum design. Our school aims to support our learners to become:
- ambitious, capable learners, ready to learn throughout their lives
- enterprising, creative contributors, ready to play a full part in life and work
- ethical, informed citizens of Wales and the world
- healthy, confident individuals, ready to lead fulfilling lives as valued members of society
The statements of what matters
- Our curriculum will provide opportunities and experiences to develop the key concepts, knowledge and skills as described in the statements of what matters and in line with the Statements of What Matters Code.
Our inclusive curriculum
Our curriculum will raise the aspirations for all our groups of learners . As a school we have considered how all learners will be supported to realise the four purposes and to progress from each individual’s starting point. We have considered our ALN provision and how we will meet the needs of different groups of learners.
Areas of Learning and Experience
Our curriculum will provide learning experiences through the 6 AoLEs of:
- Languages, Literacy and Communication
- Expressive Arts
- Science and Technology
- Humanities
- Maths and Numeracy
- Health and Wellbeing
UNCRC / UNCPRD
Our school will promote knowledge and understanding of Part 1 of the UNCRC, and of the UNCRPD, among those who provide teaching and learning.
Cross curricular skills
Our curriculum will develop the mandatory cross-curricular skills of literacy, numeracy and digital competence. Our curriculum will enable learners to develop competence and capability in these skills and to extend and apply them across all Areas. Learners will be given opportunities across the curriculum to:
- develop listening, reading, speaking and writing skills
- be able to use numbers and solve problems in real-life situations
- be confident users of a range of technologies to help them function and communicate effectively and make sense of the world
RSE
Our school curriculum embraces the guidance in the RSE Code. Our RSE provision will have a positive and empowering role in our learners’ education and will play a vital role in supporting them to realise the four purposes as part of a whole-school approach. Helping learners to form and maintain a range of relationships, all based on mutual trust and respect, is the foundation of RSE. These relationships are critical to the development of emotional well-being, resilience and empathy.
RVE
Religion, values and ethics (RVE) is a statutory requirement of the Curriculum for Wales and is mandatory for all learners from ages 3 to 16.
There is no parental right to request that a child is withdrawn from RVE in the Curriculum for Wales
As RVE is a locally determined subject, the agreed syllabus specifies what should be taught in RVE within the local authority and our curriculum will reflect this guidance.
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Review and refinement
Our school curriculum will be kept under review in order to respond to the outputs of professional inquiry, the changing needs of learners and social contexts and needs. The reviews will take into account the views of stakeholders and will be signed off by the Governing Body. We will publish a summary of our curriculum and revise the summary if changes to the curriculum are made during the review process
