Our Curriculum
Intent
At Tyndale, we believe that our curriculum should be at the heart of achieving our school mission:
Tyndale Community School’s Mission
“To empower every student to achieve personal and academic success, resulting in ambitious goals being fulfilled for themselves and their community.”
In order to work towards academic success, we teach all statutory requirements of the National Curriculum. We believe that to enable every child to achieve personal and academic success, it is important that our curriculum is broad and balanced and that pupils’ learning in the curriculum as a whole and within individual subjects is coherent and well-sequenced with well-planned skills, knowledge and cultural capital. Whilst working within the National Curriculum framework, we believe it is essential that we make curriculum choices which reflect the needs of the children who attend our school and our wider school community to ensure that all children leave us ready to fulfill ambitious goals for both themselves and their community. To support this, we have designed an enquiry-led curriculum which aims to promote the cultural development of pupils through strong links and relationships within the local community as well as preparing them for future stages in life.
Our key aim is that when children leave us at the end of Year 6, they are secondary school ready and equipped with the following:
- a high standard of reading, writing and maths knowledge
- the skills required to communicate effectively
- the ability to independently plan, monitor and evaluate their thinking and learning
- confidence in themselves and the resilience to take on new challenges
Implementation
At Tyndale, we focus on learning being carefully sequenced and linked across subjects, ensuring that over time our children both know and remember more. When teaching, adults should: recognise children's prior learning; provide first-hand learning experiences; and ensure lesson content is underpinned by the academic rigour needed to secure depth of learning. Throughout the school, our curriculum is complemented by planned learning opportunities to ensure our children's spiritual, moral, social and cultural development. Each half term, our curriculum is based around a different enquiry question which makes links across subjects where appropriate to support the deepening of pupils’ knowledge. These questions are broad, encompassing elements of history, geography, art, DT and science and are always supported by the use of high-quality texts. Throughout the year, pupils also have the opportunity to take part in project based learning which aims to increase student agency and expose children to the sorts of real life applications their new knowledge can have. Within our curriculum planning, we consider opportunities for children to revisit prior learning in different contexts and to build on what they have already learnt so that over time, they both know and remember more.
Our Reception (EYFS)
Maths
Literacy
Enquiry Led Curriculum
Tyndale Community School has been developing its own wider curriculum for a number of years. The Enquiry Led Curriculum has three strands running through it- Culture and Identity, Innovation and Community. In order for learning to be purposeful and authentic the Enquiry Led Curriculum only consists of Geography, History, DT, Art and Science.
Other subjects are not taught through our Enquiry Led Curriculum but through discrete stand-alone subjects.