At Our Lady’s, we aim to create an inspiring and creative learning environment where children feel valued and happy. We want our children to be independent, reflective and resilient learners who love learning. We actively celebrate diversity and ensure equality of opportunity.

Through our curriculum, we want every child to thrive, be happy and achieve as highly as possible.

We know the importance of children getting off to a good start to school. In EYFS we focus on Strong Foundations – ensuring children gain the foundational skills and knowledge to help them to move on positively in their next stage of learning. 

A link to the EYFS statutory framework can be found at the bottom of the page.

We offer a broad and balanced curriculum, which covers all the objectives and requirements of the National Curriculum. Reading is a huge focus of our curriculum as it is the gateway to learning.

Our curriculum identifies the key knowledge and skills children need to be equipped with to become successful lifelong learners. Each subject is carefully planned and sequenced, so children can build on prior learning, integrate new knowledge and skills with appropriate support and challenge.

Our Catholic ethos permeates everything we do in school through our curriculum, Religious Education programme and PSHE curriculum. Our children are encouraged to be responsible citizens and to take an active role in school, the parish and wider community.

Our curriculum aims to help children ‘thrive’ in today’s world where they can:

• lead a life of real significance, driven by a sense of purpose and supported by relationships that give meaning based on the model of Jesus Christ.

• lead a life that children can shape for themselves and which has wider influence — that also positively shapes the people and the world around them.

• become knowledge rich and humanity rich.

• understand themselves as learners and become increasingly independent.