Curriculum
Our curriculum is underpinned by the National Curriculum (2014) and the Early Years Curriculum, we enhance this with planned opportunities that make up the wider school curriculum.
Here at New Bewerley Community School, our curriculum is designed to prepare children to be able to understand and influence the world in which they live. It is an experiential curriculum with a focus on securing a deep understanding of all relevant knowledge and skills. It is designed to have a rigorous focus on developing excellent basic skills in English and mathematics, whilst also developing young people with a clear understanding of the positive role they can play in shaping the world around them.
We’ve designed our curriculum to retain the core function of the National Curriculum subjects sequenced to ensure logical and considered progression from Early Years to Year Six.
Golden Threads
Our learning is organised into projects built around a subject driver of either History or Geography with our Golden Threads weaved throughout each subject area.
Our Golden Threads have been developed vertically through every year group helping to ensure we are developing young people with a clear understanding of the positive role they can play in shaping the world around them. Our Golden Threads allow us to explore key themes that are pertinent to our community both in the past and in modern day.
We enhance and enrich our curriculum with trips, visitors, real life experiences and outdoor education wherever we can. Community involvement is very important to us and we endeavour to invite as many families and visitors as we can to join in with our learning.
Click to see our Educational Visits Long Term Plan 2024/25
In order to make the learning within school meaningful and relevant, we have adopted The Leeds Curriculum. The Leeds curriculum provides children with a sense of place and belonging. It allows concepts and ideas taught across all subjects to become tangible when experienced first-hand in our local community.
Characteristics of Effective Learning
Through our school vision, we prepare our children their future, whatever that may be, through the use of effective characteristics of learning.
Our Characteristics of effective learning have been broken down into the following areas which encourage our children to become:
- Curious & Critical Thinkers
- Resilient & Aspirational Learners
- Innovators & Entrepreneurs
- Community members; both locally & globally
Through a detailed breakdown of these areas of learning, we constantly aim to provide enhancement opportunities to engage learning and our school. Our ‘Characteristics of Learning’ reflect the values and skills needed to promote responsibility for learning and future success.
Click to see our Characteristics in Effective Learning Progression
NB60
At New Bewerley Community School, we have created our very our cultural capital passport called the NB60! As the children travel through school, they will embark on their learning journey, which will be filled with various experiences from cooking a meal to visiting the beach! By completing these experiences, we guarantee that our children will be prepared for their future success. It is about giving children the best possible start to their early education.
For further information regarding our curriculum, please select individual subjects via the Curriculum tab.