The Courthouse Curriculum
At Courthouse Green Primary School, we are committed to delivering a curriculum that is inclusive, responsive, and tailored to meet the diverse needs of all learners. Rooted in the principles of personalised learning, our curriculum is designed to foster both academic progress and personal growth, underpinned by the core belief that every child is capable of achieving success.
Our guiding ethos, “Doing our best to be our best,” informs all aspects of curriculum design and implementation. Drawing on contemporary educational research, we recognise the importance of learner agency, positive relationships, and self-efficacy in enabling children to thrive. As such, our curriculum aims to promote self-belief and resilience by providing engaging, relevant, and appropriately challenging learning experiences.
Aligned with the statutory requirements of the National Curriculum, our curriculum framework is broad, balanced, and coherently sequenced. It is intentionally adapted to respond to pupils’ individual starting points, interests, and levels of ability, while maintaining high expectations for all learners. This approach supports the development of a life-long love of learning and encourages curiosity, motivation, and independence.
We aim to ensure that all children reach their full potential by:
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Implementing a skills and knowledge based, relevant curriculum that demonstrates clear progression across year groups, ensuring continuity and coherence in learning.
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Embedding a diverse and future-facing curriculum that reflects contemporary global contexts and promotes cultural understanding, underpinned by our school’s core values: resilience, strive to improve, kindness, collaboration, pride, and responsibility.
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Supporting the development of critical thinking and inquiry skills, enabling children to investigate, experiment, and apply their learning in meaningful ways.
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Providing high-quality, purposeful questioning to deepen conceptual understanding and stimulate intellectual curiosity, thereby facilitating metacognitive development and knowledge retention.
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Encouraging learner independence and risk-taking, cultivating an environment where children feel confident to explore new ideas and persevere through challenges.
This curriculum model is grounded in educational best practice and reflects our commitment to equity, excellence, and the holistic development of every child.
OFSTED 2023
“Staff provide skilled and sensitive support of the very highest quality. Nothing is accepted from a pupil at face value or from the first response. Staff expertly assess, probe, challenge, model and extend. They squeeze every last drop of learning from each moment.”
“The curriculum is crystal clear. Each strand of learning is distinctly set out. It picks up and spirals around and upwards, year on year. Pupils know and understand this too. They recall their last topic in the same breath as saying ‘and now we use it to know this’.”
“In geography, their early understanding of trees, towns and the countryside becomes sophisticated knowledge of biomes and the layers of the forest. In music, young children use very technical words, including crescendo and diminuendo. They do so with pride and accuracy.”