Curriculum Intent

For further details on the Curriculum please contact:

 elloyd@westhill.staffs.sch.uk

The Hednesford Hills Federation Early Years Intent Statement

Our aim is to provide our children with an exciting, engaging and empowering curriculum that prepares them for today and tomorrow.

 Within the Hednesford Hills Federation, the curriculum is designed to: meet the needs of our children and families, recognise children’s prior learning and provide first hand learning experiences that open the world to them allowing them to explore, discover and dream.

We offer children an excellent education in a safe, happy and nurturing environment. Every child is valued as a unique individual. Our team of dedicated educators are called upon to develop confident, happy, resilient, and enthusiastic youngsters who aim high and who are ready to influence the world. We want our pupils to be inspired by what they learn in order to develop wings to fly as educated global citizens.

Within the Hednesford Hills Federation our values permeate all areas.

We use the early year’s curriculum in order to develop the knowledge content of the curriculum, but our aim is to make the curriculum relevant and exciting to our children, with purposeful outcomes that they care about achieving. Children have a thirst for learning at and are actively encouraged to pursue their own interests and reach their true, full potential. We support and guide our children on their journey and encourage them to be creative, unique, open-minded and independent individuals, respectful of themselves and of peers, our local community and the wider world.

To ensure that pupils gain knowledge and skills across all subjects we follow thematic planning which ensures full curriculum coverage and flexibility to follow children’s interests.

 Intent

 Within the Hednesford Hills Federation we want our children to:

 Leave the setting with the confidence and skills to make decisions, self-evaluate, make connections and become lifelong learners. 

Be aspirational, to aim high and challenge themselves to achieve great things in the future.

Experience a rich curriculum that has knowledge and vocabulary at the heart of their learning.      

Experience a curriculum that gives them the opportunities to develop and embed basic skills and delve deeper into their learning, building on skills progressively each year.

Share their learning with each other, their families and the wider community and to learn from others.

To have high standards of achievement in all areas of life – personal, moral, spiritual, social and academic.        

Experience a curriculum that helps them to know how to live healthy lifestyles – both physically and mentally. 

Show respect for, and understanding of, other people and the environment, within the school, the home and the wider world.

 Be prepared for life in modern Britain, understanding the fundamental British values of democracy, the rule of law, individual liberty and mutual respect and tolerance of those with different faiths and beliefs.

 We have a personalised learning approach which is developed through the 7 areas of development being accessible for children in both the inside and outdoor environment. The seven areas of development are as follows:

The three prime areas:

-Communication and Language
-Physical Development
-Personal, Social and Emotional development

The prime areas are strengthened through these areas:

-Literacy
-Mathematics
-Understanding the World
-Expressive Arts and Design

The statements for these are accessible to all parents on:

Development Matters in the Early Years Foundation Stage