Our Wider Curriculum Offer

When we talk about the wider curriculum, we are thinking about subjects such as:

  • History, Geography, Design and Technology (DT), Art, Foreign Languages, Music, PSHE (personal, social, health and emotional), Religious Education (RE) and Computing

How do we structure the wider curriculum at our school?

We follow the National Curriculum to structure our curriculum offer, as we know that this means our curriculum is ambitious for all pupils. You can find a link to the National Curriculum here:

https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/national-curriculum

At Badsley Primary, we structure our curriculum offer by teaching each of the wider curriculum subjects discretely.

For each subject, we have thought carefully about how we sequence learning over time and have broken down learning into small steps or building blocks, starting from when children enter primary school until they leave. 

At each step, we consider what specific knowledge and understanding we want our pupils to know and remember at each stage of their learning and in each subject. 

The end of the Foundation Stage, KS1, Lower KS2 and Upper KS2 are key end points for each of these building blocks of our curriculum. 

We know what we want our pupils to know and remember at each of these end points, focusing on what will be most useful to them, and have sequenced lessons over time to reach those end points.

When we talk about how we have structured our curriculum offer, we call this curriculum intent. Curriculum intent includes the specific details of what we intend our pupils to learn at each stage in their school journey. What pupils know, remember and can do indicates how well they can achieve (progress).

In our curriculum pages, we have included some samples of our curriculum documents for each subject, so that you can understand what our curriculum intent looks like in each subject we teach.