Curriculum

Inspiring every child to be extraordinary

At St Clement’s CofE Primary School, we believe every child is uniquely valued and capable of achieving great things. Our curriculum, which follows the national curriculum framework, has been centrally curated by a team of expert education leaders to inspire curiosity, build confidence, and nurture a lifelong love of learning. Through engaging and meaningful experiences, we equip children with the knowledge, skills and values they need to flourish both in school and beyond.

Curriculum wheel

Rooted in our Christian vision, our curriculum encourages children to think deeply, ask questions, embrace challenges, and develop as compassionate, responsible members of their community.

What your child will learn

Pupils follow a broad, balanced, and ambitious curriculum that helps them succeed across all subjects. We carefully plan learning so knowledge and skills build progressively from year to year, helping pupils make connections and deepen their understanding over time.

We make learning relevant and purposeful by linking new knowledge to real-life experiences, encouraging children to see the importance of what they learn and how it can be applied beyond the classroom.

Each year group studies a clearly structured programme of learning. Within our subject pages, you will find:

a curriculum overview
a progression framework
knowledge organisers for each year and term

These documents provide parents and carers with a clear understanding of the learning journey throughout the school.

How we teach

Our teaching approach ensures that every child can achieve success and develop confidence as a learner.

Breaking learning into manageable steps that build understanding over time.
Regularly revisiting important knowledge to strengthen long-term memory.
Explicitly teaching vocabulary across all subjects to develop communication and understanding.
Providing opportunities to practise, discuss, apply and reflect on learning.
Adapting teaching to meet the needs of all learners and ensure every child can participate and achieve.

Implementation

We believe that the best way to prepare our children for the future is to enable them to acquire knowledge whilst developing skills and understanding.

At St Clement’s, Reading, English and Mathematics are taught daily. Science, computing, Religious Education, French (KS2), PSHE, PE and music are taught on a weekly basis. History and Geography are taught on a two-weekly timetable. Art and Design & Technology are taught every other half term.

The curriculum for our foundation subjects is designed to ensure that learning is sequenced progressively, building knowledge and skills over time, both within a year group and across the whole school. It builds on prior knowledge and makes connections between new and previous learning. Developing these strands of learning ensures that there are many opportunities for the children to practise and apply their knowledge in a range of contexts so that they can know more, remember more and embed it into long-term memory.

We expose our children to wider, fulfilling experiences through our curriculum. This includes enrichment opportunities such as a broad range of clubs, trips, residentials, visitors and MAT events such as Science Days and River’s Fest. This wider curriculum broadens our children’s experiences, builds confidence and resilience and encourages our children to consider broader horizons.

What children achieve

By the time pupils leave St Clement’s, they will:

Have a strong foundation of knowledge across the curriculum.
Be able to apply their learning to solve problems and think critically.
Communicate confidently using appropriate subject-specific vocabulary.
Demonstrate resilience, independence and effective learning behaviours.
Be well-prepared for the next stage of their education and future life experiences.

Impact

The impact of our curriculum is monitored through retrieval practice and low-stakes quizzes on a daily basis across the curriculum. End of term assessments and end of year assessments also support monitoring the impact.

Leaders monitor teaching and learning through child voice, parental questionnaires as well as book looks and learning walks. The development of the children in school is also monitored through daily informal conversations.

As a result of our curriculum, we expect to see:

All children achieve well by developing knowledge and skills across the curriculum. This is demonstrated through outcomes at EYFS, Phonics (Key Stage 1), Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2. Children will develop lifelong learning behaviours such as pride, resilience and team work.
Our children will be able to understand, appreciate and success in modern Britain.
Our children will develop a life long love of learning through our vision Extraordinary Education, Extraordinary People, Extraordinary Futures
Our children will be responsible global citizens and courageous advocates through the Christian Values we have instilled in them during their time in school.
All children will leave our school, fully equipped for the next stage in their learning.

Our curriculum subjects

Curriculum overviews, progression frameworks and knowledge organisers are available through The Rivers CofE Academy Trust curriculum resources. These documents show the knowledge, concepts and skills taught in each subject, term by term, across every year group, ensuring a clear and progressive learning journey for all pupils.

Featured subjects

Art
Computing
Design and Technology
Geography
History
Languages (French)
Music
PE
RE
Science

Curriculum Resources – The Rivers CofE Academy Trust

Whilst most subjects follow our trust-wide curriculum, English, mathematics and PSHE are taught using nationally recognised schemes and approaches. To learn more about these subjects, please visit the relevant subject pages.

Please note: Our Music Development Plan is currently under review and will be published once finalised. Please contact the school for any further information.

Religious Education

We follow the Worcestershire RE syllabus. Find out more on our trust's RE page.

Withdrawing your child from RE

Parents/carers have a right to withdraw their child from RE. You don’t have to give a reason; however, you should be aware of the RE syllabus and that it is relevant to all pupils and respects their own personal beliefs. If you would like to discuss our RE curriculum so you can make an informed decision, please get in touch with the school.

Trips to places of worship

Parents/carers have a right to withdraw their child from any trip that is part of the RE curriculum. If you have any concerns, please contact the school so we can arrange a meeting to talk through your concerns.

Find out more

For more information regarding the curriculum, contact us.