Curriculum
Children have been at the heart of our curriculum process, contributing how they want to learn, parents' views have also been sought and our curriculum will meet the following requirements:
Our Vision
‘Make yourself Proud!
At Meadowlane Primary School we strive to create a warm, welcoming environment where our children feel safe, secure and happy. We have high expectations for every child and we celebrate effort and achievement. As an inclusive school we value diversity, respect each other as individuals, and embrace our differences.
At Meadowlane Primary School we aim to:
Give our children belief that they can achieve so they have the confidence to become ambitious, capable learners.
‘Believe you can achieve’
Work in partnership with parents/ carers to ensure all our children are healthy and confident individuals.
‘Be healthy and confident’
Provide an environment for all children built on respect for themselves and others so they are ready to be tolerant and responsible citizens of Wales and the wider world.
‘Celebrate our similarities and differences’
Build our children’s aspirations by providing them with a wide range of enriched experiences and giving them the key skills of independence, perseverance, resilience and creativity so they are ready for their future lives.
‘Reach for the stars!’
Our inclusive curriculum
Our curriculum will raise the aspirations of all learners. As a school we have considered how all learners will be supported to realise the ambitions and aspirations of the four purposes and to progress. We have considered our ALN provision and how we will meet the needs of different groups of learners.
The four purposes
The four purposes are the starting point and aspirations for our school curriculum design. Our school aims to support all learners to become:
The statements of what matters
Our curriculum will provide rich opportunities an authentic learning experiences to develop the key concepts, knowledge and skills as described in the statements of what matters and in line with the Statement of What Matters Code.
Areas of Learning and Experience
Our curriculum will provide learning experiences through the 6 AoLEs of:
Learning, Progression and Assessment
Our curriculum will support learning through designing learning opportunities that draw upon the pedagogical principles.
Our curriculum supported by effective learning and teaching enables learners to make meaningful progress. Over time our learners will develop and improve their skills and knowledge. Our curriculum focuses on understanding what it means to make progress in a given Area or discipline and how learners should deepen and broaden their knowledge and understanding, skills and capacities, and attribute and dispositions and is informed by the Progression Code. This in turn supports our approach to assessment, the purpose of which is to inform planning for future learning. Assessment will be embedded as an intrinsic part of learning and teaching. All learners will be assessed on entry to the school.
Welsh and English
As an English medium school learning will take place in Welsh and English from the early years onwards.
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:
UNCRC
As a Gold Rights Respecting school we will promote knowledge and understanding of Part 1 of the UNCRC among those who provide learning and teaching.
CWRE
Our curriculum will incorporate careers and work related experiences for all of our learners.
RSE
Our school curriculum embraces the RSE guidance and mandatory 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 crucial 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 chid 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.
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. This will ensure our curriculum is both inclusive and responsive, meeting the needs of all leaners. 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.