Curriculum Overview

Our Curriculum

“Leaders have developed a curriculum which is broad and ambitious” (Ofsted, Nov 2021)

All children are unique and individual. So are all schools. With this in mind, we have in place a broad and balanced curriculum, which ensures coverage of statutory curriculum content, knowledge and skills; but also incorporates elements that reflect our context and the skills and experiences we want children to develop and encounter during their time at Endon Hall.

We value personal development as much as we do academic development, aiming to provide a truly memorable primary school experience that children will look back on as the best time of their lives!

“Leaders prioritise pupils’ personal development. This is a strength of the school”. (Ofsted, Nov 2021)

We have a whole school emphasis on developing vocabulary, revisiting and reviewing learning so that it ‘sticks’, keeping tasks open-ended, and ‘quizzing’ to check gains in knowledge.

We prioritise reading as it is the key to all learning; but we equally prioritise reading for pleasure as it is the enjoyment of reading that takes us to new places and opens up our imagination. 

In order to engage and excite the children we organise our curriculum around high quality texts. We aim to nurture lifelong learning using Building Learning Power, Co-operative Learning and Life Skills as threads weaved throughout our curriculum. We also aim to promote opportunity, experience and ‘The Greats’.

​Children progress at different rates and have different strengths and weaknesses. Our curriculum aims to strike a balance between the core skills (English and Maths) and the foundation subject skills (Science, History, Geography, Design and Technology, Computing, Physical Education, Religious Education, Art and Design, Music, Languages and Relationships & Health Education); in order that children’s talents can be exploited and applied more widely.

Curriculum Information

The information below provides an overview of our curriculum offer for core and foundation subjects. Our curriculum is based on the statutory National Curriculum but has been further developed to suit our vision, values and context.

Core subjects

To help understand what your child will be learning in each core subject from Year 1 to Year 6, click on the relevant links below to view the statutory National Curriculum content for the core subjects (English, Maths & Science).

These year group overviews show the end of year points/expectations for the core subjects.

Foundation Subjects

We have documented the aims, coverage, progression in knowledge and skills, vocabulary and link to ‘The Greats’ for each foundation subject.

To help understand what your child will be learning termly, in each foundation subject from Year 1 to Year 6, click on the relevant links below to show our curriculum content, coverage and progression.

Each overview shows the learning that has taken place prior to the start of Year 1, in Early Years, as these are the starting points on entry to Key Stage 1.

Early Years

To help understand what your child will be learning during their Reception year (EYFS), click on curriculum overview below.

This shows the Early Learning Goals (National Expectation for Reception children by the end of their Reception year) in all seven areas of the Early Years curriculum.

End of Reception (EYFS) – Early Learning Goals overview

To help understand what our Nursery aged children will be learning, and for further information about termly learning for Reception, please click here –

Additional Curriculum Information

Phonics

A daily Phonic session is planned and delivered in Nursery, Reception, Year 1 and Year 2, following the Little Wandle validated programme. For those children who do not achieve the expected standard in the Year 1 (Phase 5) Phonics Screening test, further Phonics support is put in place in Year 2 and children then retake the screening test at the end of Year 2.

Reading schemes

Banded books are used for individual reading. A range of schemes are utilised, including:

• • • Collins Big Cats​
    • Oxford Reading Tree
    • Cambridge Reading
    • Pelican​

High quality, real texts are used for teaching reading in school through our Whole Class Guided Reading approach.

Maths Schemes

Click on our YouTube channel to see how we teach the written methods within the four mathematical calculations (Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication and Division): Endon Hall YouTube Channel

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