Our Planned Curriculum

At Lionwood Junior School we offer a curriculum which has the acquisition of Maths and English skills at its heart.  These skills are embedded in a wider curriculum which is designed to give children the cultural capital they need to thrive beyond Lionwood, to develop sound skills across the curriculum, develop a love of learning and engage in a wide range of experiences they would not necessarily have access to outside school.  This is within a school culture that proactively promotes the spiritual, moral, cultural, mental and physical development of all pupils at the school and tackles inequality head on. It prepares pupils at the school for the opportunities, responsibilities and experiences of later life.

Our curriculum challenges children to take responsibility for their own learning.  It challenges our teachers to listen effectively to the ideas and needs of the children to inform planning.  Our curriculum requires that all involved think, reflect, analyse, hypothesise, consolidate, question, imagine and create.

Our curriculum provides pupils with an introduction to the essential knowledge that they need to be educated citizens. It introduces pupils to the best that has been thought and said; and helps engender an appreciation of human creativity and achievement. 

Within our curriculum there is time and space for enriching experiences. The National Curriculum provides an outline of core knowledge around which teachers can develop exciting and stimulating lessons to promote the development of pupils’ knowledge, understanding and skills as part of the wider school curriculum.