Our Curriculum

We believe in a broad and balanced curriculum that recognises the uniqueness of every child and which serves to prepare them for their future. All our children are encouraged to be the best that they can be.

Our Randwick curriculum is underpinned by the National Curriculum. Our intent is to enhance this through experiential and enrichment opportunties to make learning exciting within a meaningful context for children both in and outside the classroom. Leaders and teachers create medium term plans each term bringing the National Curriculum to life in the classroom: we want children to see, hear, smell and feel what they are learning about so that they have a sense of place, time and community, making learning relevant to the children at Randwick. We develop our children’s ability to think, reason and ask the big questions through our RE and PSHE curriculum, which is further enhanced through our use of P4C in the classroom. 

Our curriculum is designed to ensure that our children use and apply their learning across a range of subjects towards more complex learning, allowing them to deepen and embed their subject knowledge. This encourages them to make connections in their learning. Teachers plan in small steps on medium term plans for all subjects of the National Curriculum. Leaders have identified the key sticky knowledge to ensure that all children can know more and remember more. A mastery approach to learning in mathematics supported by Glow maths hub helps enhance pupil’s mathematical understanding. A range of visitors, trips and use of our own amazing local environment supports this learning. We aim for all of the children to experience a wealth of educational experiences to ensure that they become independent learners fully ready for their next challenge or stage of learning, with a well-developed understanding of the need to fully engage with their community.

We expect all of our children to ask big questions, and to recognise that they need to play their full part in their community, both in and out of school, ensuring that they 'go and do likewise'. This is supported by our key values, encouraging our children to understand why they need to behave and respond in a particular way. In this way our children are fully ready for the demands of life in modern Britain. We offer many ways to further develop these skills through leadership opportunities, such as House Captains, Class Buddies, Worship Monitors and Sports Leaders. These opportunities introduce them to the art of decision making and problem solving as well as supporting their personal development, and helps our community ethos become a reality. We are committed to an inclusive environment where tolerance and respect for others are embedded into daily life.

Through a distinctive ethos rooted in a strong scripture base, linking back to the National Church and Diocesan Vision, (John 10:10) Our school seeks to ensure that every child in our care understands how they are called to live and develop as citizens in modern Britain. Much of this work is supported by RE, PSHCE and soon to be delivered P4C which fully allows our pupils to celebrate diversity and differences as well as developing and enhancing their ability to demonstrate tolerance and respect for others.

We aim for standards to be at least in line with national data. Where this is not met, we ensure that appropriate steps are put into place to address this and ensure that rapid progress is made so that our children are supported to be the best that they can be.