Curriculum

Our Curriculum

At Ferndale Primary School, our curriculum is designed around our key drivers: aspiration, inspiration, and inclusion, as well as our values and Learning 9. These drivers were carefully considered to reflect our school’s deprivation, mobility, levels of SEN, and our diverse population. They underpin the direction and development of all areas of our school life and contribute to the ‘whole’ development of our pupils – knowledge, skills, understanding, and attitudes. Our locality is also an important feature of our curriculum, including learning about West Bromwich, mining in Hamstead, and diverse cultures.

We have designed a curriculum that teaches what matters to our children so they know more, remember more, and understand more. It is filled with rich first-hand experiences. Reading is at the heart of everything we do, underpinning the entire curriculum. Reading, language, and an understanding of words – their impact and where they can take the reader – are fundamental to helping our children not just survive but thrive as learners and young people. This equips them to succeed and love learning.

The curriculum is an evolving and sequential process with clear progression in subject skills and knowledge. It is flexible and responsive to the individual needs and interests of all our pupils, taking into consideration the needs and character of all our pupils, including those with SEND, the more able, those with EAL, and the disadvantaged. It also takes into account children’s prior learning, experiences, community, and the statutory National Curriculum (click here to view the national curriculum).

Our curriculum focuses on providing children with experiences they may not otherwise have, including our Ferndale 50, trips, residential visits, visitors, an imagination studio, stunning starts, marvellous middles, and fabulous finishers. We aim to equip our children with the skills to embed deep learning and make learning ‘real’ while utilising metacognition to sequence and plan learning.

Below are the subjects that we teach, and also our year group overviews and long term plan documents: