Intent

At Fleetville Junior School, our curriculum brings together academic excellence, positive behaviour, personal development and enrichment so that every child can thrive. We believe all children should experience both success and joy in their learning.

Each subject begins with the big picture: what we want children to achieve and experience by the time they leave us. These ambitions sit alongside the expectations of the National Curriculum and are captured in our own subject principles. The principles are the anchors of our curriculum design, guiding how units are shaped, how skills and knowledge are sequenced, and how children grow in each discipline. They can be found on the subject information pages.

Knowledge and skills are built step by step, helping children to make meaningful connections across subjects while ensuring each subject retains its integrity and depth. Texts provide a rich spine for learning, linking ideas and inspiring curiosity. Alongside this, children access a wide range of cultural, artistic and sporting experiences, and school leadership opportunities to ensure their education extends beyond the academic.

Implementation

Our teaching is consistent and purposeful, supported by a clear five-part lesson structure: revisit, explore, teach, practise, apply. This structure does not limit teachers but ensures coherence within and across year groups, giving children regular opportunities to review prior knowledge, engage with new content, and apply their learning.

We draw on the best bets from the science of learning, with routines, retrieval and practice designed to secure long-term memory. Our explicitly taught behaviour curriculum underpins this work, giving children the learning behaviours needed to succeed.

High-quality CPD and a commitment to research-informed practice sit at the heart of our approach. Staff at all levels are supported through co-planning, coaching and subject leadership. 

Lessons are vocabulary-rich, with opportunities for reasoning, questioning and depth of understanding. Scaffolding, feedback and adapted tasks ensure all children are included and challenged. Formative assessment is used routinely within lessons, in order to address pupil misconceptions and summative assessments are used termly to track how pupils are progressing against the curriculum. 

Impact

We continually review the quality and impact of our curriculum. Subject leaders and senior leaders monitor through lesson visits, book looks, pupil conversations and progress meetings, ensuring a balanced picture of how learning is landing. Please see the document below showing the role of subject leaders at our school.

Assessment is used formatively within lessons to address misconceptions and termly to track progress against key curriculum expectations. Pupil and teacher voice helps us refine our approach further. As a result, children leave Fleetville with secure knowledge and skills, confidence in their own abilities and the values to contribute positively to their community and the wider world.