Our curriculum has been carefully designed to meet the needs of the children in our school. 

This page gives full details of our offering. If you have any questions regarding the curriculum we teach, please contact the school directly.

Farnborough Road Junior School is committed to meeting the requirements of the National Curriculum (2014) whilst incorporating other experiences and opportunities which best meet the learning and developmental needs of pupils in our school. 

Farnborough Road Junior School is an inclusive school, with a whole school approach to meeting the needs of individual pupils and removing barriers to learning. We want to create a happy, safe, caring and inclusive learning environment where every child will become an independent learner who achieves their full potential; this is key to our curriculum.

We believe our careful planning will mean that our curriculum is rich, balanced and stimulating in order to inspire children to nurture a passion for learning. After school clubs and events extend pupils’ opportunities further. The outdoor environment and the local community are considered an opportunity for active learning for all our pupils.

We ensure the seven principles for curriculum design are incorporated into our planned curriculum alongside the core values of the National Curriculum:

Balanced – Using the National Curriculum (2014) as the core of our learning.  Alongside this we value the promotion of intellectual, moral, spiritual, aesthetic, creative, emotional and physical development are as equally important.

Rigorous – Subjects are taught in isolation as discrete subjects. We may make and create natural ‘topic’ areas but the teaching and learning is embedded in that subject. This enables pupils to understand what subjects are and the skills required to excel in them.

Coherent – Throughout our curriculum links are made between different subjects and experiences. Whether that be through World War II in History or links between the local environment in Geography.

Vertically Integrated – We ensure that our curriculum has clear and progressive skills. These focus on progression and map out steps of where the pupils are heading to, in each individual subject.

Appropriate – Our curriculum tries to ensure that there are no unreasonable demands on our pupils. We match the level of challenge to a pupil’s current level of maturity/knowledge.

Focused – Our curriculum clear has a focus for each unit of work covered. This is shared with the pupils at the beginning and  throughout the unit to ensure the pupils do not lose sight of this

Relevant – We seek to connect the valued outcomes of a curriculum to the pupils being taught it. We constantly seek opportunities for pupils to make informed choices.

The Needs of Learners

The curriculum is taught with the consideration of the needs of all learners. Our curriculum continues to ensure that our pupils' learning is both meaningful, and benefits from a specific focus on the core requirements of the English and Mathematic's curriculum.

The aim of our curriculum is for pupils to have the requisite skills to be successful, independent and motivated learners in readiness for their next stage of education. The curriculum celebrates the diversity and utilises the skills, knowledge and cultural wealth of the community while supporting the pupils’ spiritual, moral, social and cultural development.

The more able are challenged further in their learning. Pupils who find aspects of their learning more difficult including those with SEND needs and the disadvantaged, receive the same Quality First Teaching whilst receiving appropriate support so that they too are enabled to experience success; we believe in inclusion not exclusion from the curriculum.

It is through a common-sense approach of adaptive teaching at FRJS that teachers carry out without thinking on a day-to-day basis, meeting the needs of their class through high quality teaching strategies. However, in order for all pupils to achieve success, recommendations from the EEF guidance research should be explored. These include;

• Adapting lessons, whilst maintaining high expectations for all, so that all pupils have the opportunity to meet expectations.
• Balancing input of new content so that pupils master important concepts.
• Making effective use of teaching assistants.

National requirements and school requirements are mapped out as a whole school and then individual year groups plan the curriculum for their pupils accordingly. The curriculum is underpinned by the school’s Core Values (Respect, Hardworking, Helpful, Fair, Honest, Thoughtful, Happy and Caring); these are taught on their own and through other areas of the curriculum, including assemblies. The spiritual, moral, social and cultural development of our pupils and their understanding of the core values of our society are woven through the curriculum.

Curriculum Areas and Subjects:

The areas are organised under the following subject headings:

• English
• Mathematics
• Science
• History
• Art and Design
• Computing
• Religious Education
• Geography
• PSHE (Relationships and Health Education)
• Design Technology
• Physical Education
• Music
• MFL
• SMSC
• British Values
• Protected Characteristics

Full details of the curriculum can be seen in the subject folder which contain a detailed policy and curriculum map.

Further details regarding our assessment programme can be seen in our Assessment Policy.

Reviewed November 2022

Annabelle Gibbons

SUBJECT INFORMATION

This section contains information on our curriculum subject policies, schemes, maps and introduces you to our subject leaders.