At Easebourne CE Primary School, our curriculum is designed to inspire and equip our pupils with the knowledge, skills, and values necessary to thrive in an ever-changing world. We are committed to fostering a love of learning, creativity, curiosity, and cultural awareness in every child, ensuring they develop into well-rounded, confident, and resilient individuals. Our Christian values of faith, hope and love, underpin all aspects of school life, promoting a caring, nurturing, and inclusive environment that celebrates diversity.
Core Principles
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Holistic Development: Our broad and balanced curriculum supports the academic, social, emotional, spiritual and cultural growth of our pupils. We nurture individual talents, promoting an inclusive approach.
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High Expectations: We encourage pupils to strive for excellence, valuing individuality and equipping them with self-discipline and confidence.
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Lifelong Learning: We instill a passion for learning through engaging, memorable experiences tailored to pupils' needs and interests.
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Community and Collaboration: We foster a collaborative community, valuing parents, carers and the wider community in supporting learning.
Curriculum Design
Our curriculum is carefully sequenced to develop pupils' knowledge, understanding and skills in a progressive and coherent way. We utilise spaced repetition to reinforce key concepts, ensuring pupils retain learning over time. New knowledge and skills build upon prior learning through structured revisiting of content.
Curriculum Implementation
At Easebourne, Geography is taught across each class in units through our personalised curriculum that enables pupils to study in depth key geographical knowledge, skills and vocabulary. The Long-Term planning is sequenced to ensure that our children develop the key Geographical concepts of ‘Space and Place’, ‘Scale and Connection’, ‘Proximity and Distance’ and ‘Relational Thinking’, as well as cover everything in the National Curriculum. Each unit aims to activate and build upon prior learning to ensure better cognition and retention. Fertile Questions give each topic a key focus with children acquiring, in a carefully sequenced way, the key Geographical knowledge needed to answer the fertile question at the end of the unit. These fertile questions look at different areas of Geography from different holistic perspectives in order to develop the social, emotional, spiritual and cultural growth of our pupils. Our units are planned with our Christian Values in mind to give children hope for the future and love of the natural world around them.
Community is key to our geography curriculum and we have structured our units to focus on our local area before moving to national and international perspectives. Geography is also taught on a more local level through our termly Forest School sessions (where pupils make connections between taught geographical concepts and our local area) and in upper Key Stage 2, pupils also work towards their John Muir award, applying their knowledge and understanding of Geography to achieve this award.
As well as ensuring pupils are taught key knowledge, each unit is designed to offer pupils the opportunity to develop their skills as a geographer in observing and discussing, map reading and making a recording on them, aerial images and photography, sketching drawing and annotating, sound recording, measuring data and more. These skills are key to lifelong learning in the future. Our pupils experience fieldwork within many units as fieldwork is vital to Geographical practice as an active way of understanding abstract concepts. This enquiry led fieldwork uses a genuine ‘Need to Know’ question as a starting point and helps to develop a meaningful sense of place, as well as the interplay of human and physical in our location.
In our strive for excellence and to continue our high expectations, throughout each unit pupils continually revisit previous content to reinforce key knowledge and vocabulary. Accompanying each unit is a Unit Plan which contains key knowledge and concepts which all pupils are expected to understand and retain.
Each year children will experience one school visit which has humanities focus. Additionally, we recognise that all trips include an element of geography, including developing an appreciation of interconnectedness, understanding the interplay of human and physical features within a location.