Thames View Primary School

Our Curriculum

At Thames View Primary School, staff are committed to providing an education that enables all pupils to realise their dreams, goals and ambitions. We work in partnership with colleagues, parents and the community, so that pupils achieve academic success and experience personal well-being within a caring and safe environment.
  We motivate and engage children by delivering a rich and broad curriculum that inspires our pupils to become life-long and responsible learners.
  We promote our values of Respect, Responsibility and Resilience and equality, throughout all we do, so that our pupils are ready to take their place in a constantly changing world.

Our intention is to ensure our children experience a curriculum that has knowledge, skills and reading at the heart of their learning.

We provide a rich curriculum that enables pupils to see the world from a wide range of perspectives. The curriculum provides enriched opportunities for children to delve deeper into their learning, building on skills progressively each year, and responds to findings from pupil feedback and school data to ensure it is bespoke to their needs and reflects the constantly changing world, locally and globally.

To find out more about our individual subjects, click the links below:

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Knowledge and Skills

Our Curriculum has a knowledge and skills led approach.  Through the planning of carefully sequenced learning journeys we aim to deliver high quality lessons that enable our pupils to learn more, know more and remember more within creative and exciting contexts.  We endeavour to link subjects, where appropriate, so that learning experiences are complimentary, real and relevant, promote progression and enhance the statutory requirements of the National Curriculum.  Topics are enriched through the use of quality and varied texts and in so doing develop pupils’ reading skills and reading for pleasure.  Our curriculum is further supplemented through the provision of engaging, valuable Educational Visits and by welcoming visitors to the school to support creative learning experiences for all our pupils.

For a full break down on the focus of each unit and to see how subjects are organised to compliment and enrich each other, you can download the full Thames View Primary Curriculum Plan below.

We endeavour to make links between the subjects and topics so that the pupils are able to contextualise and deepen their understanding.

We use established and proven schemes of learning in Science, RE, PE, PSHE, Music and Computing.  These support teachers to ensure that the key skills and knowledge in those subjects is taught in meaningful, effective ways that sequence the learning most appropriately. 

At times, learning at Thames View is directed but at other times we encourage more open-ended enquiry based approaches through the application of big questions posed by the teacher.  These are presented at the start and through topics. We encourage a mix of both practical and written learning; using the outdoors as a classroom is fundamental to the learning opportunities we offer our children along with enrichment visits to other locations. We acknowledge that Educational Visits/activities and visitors/experts are all vital to the enhancement of the quality of education.

Further information about our Curriculum Intent can be found in the attachments on this page.