Curriculum Aims

Our curriculum aims

Hill View Primary School is a happy and healthy place to learn. Like all schools in England, we must follow the National Curriculum – it sets out subjects and content which we must teach. Within this however, there is flexibility so that we can interpret and plan to meet the needs and interests of our children now and for the future. The key aim for all our teaching and learning is to provide opportunities for all pupils to learn, to enjoy and to achieve. We feel this is best achieved through primarily teaching children to read fluently and to achieve this as quickly as possible.

We want our children to be happy, enthusiastic and committed learners.

We encourage and stimulate the best possible progress and the highest attainment for all our pupils. Our curriculum builds on pupils' strengths, interests and experiences and develops children's confidence in their capacity to learn and work independently and collaboratively.

We want to equip our children with essential skills for learning and living well.

We place great importance on the skills of literacy, numeracy, information and communication technology and problem-solving. We promote skills that help our learners to improve their own learning and performance and that help them to work well with others.

We want everyone in our school community to be happy and healthy.

We place a high priority on developing pupils' physical skills, self-esteem and emotional well-being. We encourage them to recognise the importance of pursuing a healthy lifestyle and keeping themselves and others safe. We promote happy, effective relationships that are based on respect for themselves and for others.

We want to promote our pupils' sense of identity.

We do this through teaching knowledge and understanding of the spiritual, moral, social and cultural heritages of Britain's diverse society and of the local, national, European, Commonwealth and global dimensions of pupils' lives. We want everyone in our school to understand and appreciate their own and different beliefs and cultures, and how these influence our communities.

We want our children to be reflective, expressive, independent and appreciative.

We provide rich and varied contexts for pupils to acquire, develop and apply a broad range of knowledge, understanding and skills. Doing so enables our pupils to think creatively and critically, to solve problems and to make a difference for the better.

We want to prepare our pupils for the opportunities, responsibilities and experiences of life.

We promote pupils' spiritual, moral, social and cultural development and, in particular, the differences between right and wrong, and that we have rights but also responsibilities. We want everyone in our school to be responsible and caring citizens who make positive contributions to communities.