At Elmley Castle, our curriculum is centred around preparing our pupils for success in life, both academically and personally. Our aim is to ensure that children leave us equipped with the knowledge, skills, self-confidence, and resilience needed to thrive in education, the workplace, and society. We foster a life-long love of learning in all our pupils, empowering them to reach their full potential.

Our curriculum is designed to provide a rich and deep education that meets the unique needs of every pupil. We focus on delivering high-quality learning experiences, developing critical thinking skills, and teaching essential knowledge, skills, and understanding—key building blocks for future success.

The Elmley Awards go beyond the National Curriculum, offering experiences that help our pupils grow into responsible, balanced, and well-informed members of society. We’re grateful for the support of our parent community in bringing this scheme to life.

We are committed to promoting wellbeing, personal values, self-awareness, and emotional resilience through dedicated teaching opportunities across the curriculum, alongside the delivery of core and foundation subjects.

The aims of our curriculum are:

• To provide an engaging curriculum, underpinned by the teaching of core skills and knowledge, ensuring our pupils become confident and effective speakers, readers, writers, and mathematicians.
• To teach using a cross-curricular approach while preserving the integrity of each subject, helping our pupils see themselves as future scientists, artists, historians, or engineers.
• To fulfil the requirements of the National Curriculum, ensuring broad, balanced, and differentiated provision that supports the progressive development of concepts, knowledge, and skills, while fostering a love for all subjects.
• To inspire aspiration, enabling pupils to be ready for the next steps in their education and to begin forming a vision for their future learning and life.
• To develop empathetic, responsible pupils who know how to make a positive contribution to their community and society.
• To celebrate the history, diversity, and cultural richness of the school’s wider community, supporting our pupils' spiritual, moral, social, and cultural development to prepare them for life in modern Britain.

"High expectations for all and a bespoke curriculum that is inclusive and adaptive, enables all pupils to achieve their best."

SIAMS (2022)

Curriculum Subjects

Every National Curriculum Subject has a Long Term Plan and Progression Document. The vocabulary and substantive, disciplinary knowledge that the children will be assessed against is broken down. For every session of learning, children have clearly defined learning outcomes (LO) and success criteria (SC) to measure their progression and understand any emerging needs.

We have a 2-year rolling programme of topics in each class which ensures that all Statutory National Curriculum subjects are progressively covered across the school. Each topic has a key text stimulus and a curriculum subject focus (history, geography or science based). These are developed into a Topic Web to show each subject is studied creatively and distinctively to enable the children to make connections and build upon current knowledge. 

"Children say that EVERY lesson is their favourite."

OFSTED (2022)