Brightside Nursery Infant School

Our Curriculum Intent

At Brightside Nursery Infant School the curriculum is designed to: recognise children’s prior learning, provide first hand learning experiences, allow the children to develop communication skills, build independence, and provide a bright start to lead to a brighter future.

We celebrate and welcome differences within our school family and wider community. The ability to learn is underpinned by the teaching of basic skills, knowledge, concepts and values. We strive to develop a unique curriculum based around our local context to engage, stimulate and deepen learning. Our aim is to provide children with the ability to become reflective, creative and resilient learners who aim high to succeed in life. We use a Learning Challenge curriculum as a vehicle to enable all our learners to become confident, respectful problem solvers who have the capability to overcome barriers that they face.

Children leave the Brightside with a sense of belonging to a tightly knit community where they have the confidence and skills to make decisions, self-evaluate, make connections and become lifelong learners

Aims

Our curriculum aims to:

• Provide a broad and balanced education for all pupils
• Enable pupils to develop knowledge, understand concepts and acquire skills, and be able to choose and apply these in relevant situations
• Support pupils’ spiritual, moral, social and cultural development
• Promote British Values of democracy, the rule of law, individual liberty, and mutual respect and tolerance of those with different faiths and beliefs to prepare pupils for life in modern day Britain.
• Support pupils’ physical development and responsibility for their own health, and enable them to be active
• Promote independence, resilience and a positive attitude towards learning
• Ensure equal access to learning, with high expectations for every pupil and appropriate levels of challenge and support
• That all teachers and other professionals are “lifelong learners”, committed to an ongoing development of their own knowledge and skills to optimise the pupils’ learning experiences.
• That a positive, caring attitude, where achievements at all levels are acknowledged and valued, is prevalent throughout the school.
• Provide opportunities to talk both imaginatively, expressively and to explain, reason and clarify using deeper thinking skills
• Provide pupils with the skills, attitudes and values are so they are prepared for the next stage of learning