Curriculum Overview

Curriculum Vision

We want children at Goose Green to be curious about the world around them, to become creative and critical thinkers, and to be active and responsible citizens. Our culturally rich and experiential approach has fairness and equity at its heart, providing opportunities for all children to be successful across the curriculum.

We want children to discover their passions and to see themselves as expert learners across a wide range of disciplines (eg as historians, artists, mathematicians, musicians etc), who have the skills and knowledge to change the world around them. Our approach supports and develops our core values of ambition, curiosity, kindness and resilience.

How is the curriculum implemented at Goose Green?

Our approach to teaching and learning is based on the Educational Endowment Foundation's Five a Day, which supports all children, including those with SEND, to succeed academically. Teachers use a repertoire of these strategies daily and flexibly in response to individual needs:

1. Explicit instruction

2. Cognitive and metacognitive strategies

3. Scaffolding

4. Flexible grouping

5. Using technology

Our long term curriculum map below sets out the core text and subject driver for each half term for each year group. In the Summer 2 half term, all year groups learn about a topic with an environmental and climate activism focus, in preparation for our annual Carnival at the end of the year. 

Children at Goose Green come from a diverse range of backgrounds and this is celebrated in our curriculum. High quality core texts have been carefully selected so that they are reflective of our community, include some classic texts, and showcase a diverse range of authors, protagonists and genres. 

Whilst subjects are taught discretely, cross-curricular links are explored where possible and learning is enriched through trips, workshops and visitors, so that the children can make links to the world around them. They are also given opportunities to recognise themes across their learning, both within a year and from year-to-year as they progress through the school. 

The knowledge, skills and vocabulary have been carefully sequenced across all subjects so that children have the opportunity to learn and remember more over time. Assessment for learning swiftly closes gaps and teaching is adapted to ensure support and challenge for all children. 

How do we know what children have learned?

We use a range of strategies to measure the impact of our curriculum, including feedback and assessment strategies (eg questioning, quizzing and retrieval practice, summative assessments), in addition to monitoring by senior leaders and subject leaders in the school (eg through learning walks, monitoring progress and Pupil Learning Reviews - a structured approach to talking to children about their learning). 

Curriculum Overview