At Beck Row Primary Academy we use the Cornerstones Curriculum 22. This is a broad and balanced, knowledge-rich primary curriculum. Its content is delivered through a range of subject-specific projects, which last either a full or half term. Subject-specific projects cover Art and Design, R.E., Design & Technology, Geography, History and Science.

  • Rigolo French – Rigolo is fully matched to the National Curriculum and meets the requirements of the KS2 Framework for Languages
  • Rigolo is a complete Key Stage 2 French course, split into 2 levels (Rigolo 1 and Rigolo 2). Rigolo 1 is aimed at Years 3-4, and Rigolo 2 at Years 5-6. “A well-constructed resource … very suitable for primary-aged pupils…[it] is underpinned by a sound understanding of primary MFL pedagogy including a strong focus on pronunciation, songs to aid memorisation, inclusion of cultural insights, light-touch focus on grammar, links to literacy and oracy etc.” Anna Lise Gordon, President of Association for Language Learning, and judge for the Teach Primary Resource Awards 2018 modern foreign languages category

Computing – Cornerstones has a partnership with Barefoot, Computing at School to provide schools with the ability to deliver the computing curriculum with downloadable lessons and resources, mapped to the Cornerstones knowledge and skills framework. The Barefoot lessons have been sequenced and grouped into projects for each year group …  Where appropriate, links to Cornerstones projects are made in individual lessons.

Jigsaw PSHE – Embodying a positive philosophy, each child or young person’s development will be nurtured through a series of fun learning activities and creative teaching approaches. Jigsaw education is about turning each child into compassionate, socially aware, and well-rounded adults.

The Jigsaw curriculum is firmly established in psychology and encompasses a wide range of subjects. These lessons are brought together in a way that makes them easy to understand and relate to. Such lessons that form our curriculum include:

  • Emotional Literacy
  • Mindfulness
  • Relationships and Health Education
  • Social Skills
  • Spiritual Development

Other areas covered by our Jigsaw curriculum include celebrating difference where we focus on the similarities and differences that define us, as well as friendships and conflict. Other areas we cover are dreams and goals. Students are taught to manage feelings of pride, ambition, and disappointment as well as identify personal strengths while discussing their hopes, dreams, and goals.

Handwriting – Nelson Handwriting is a whole-school programme designed to help all children develop a confident, legible and personal handwriting style and meet higher curriculum expectations.

Music – Charanga Musical School Learning. The learning within this Scheme is based on: • Listening and Appraising • Musical Activities — creating and exploring • Singing, Playing Instruments and Performing.

Our curriculum and our wider work with our pupils seeks to promote the British Values of:

  • democracy
  • the rule of law
  • individual liberty
  • mutual respect for and tolerance of those with different faiths and beliefs and for those without faith.

All learners in an ATT academy will experience a curriculum that is:

  1. Ambitious, challenging and engaging through knowledge and skills developed from Foundation Stage to Post 16 and Adult provision.
  2. Knowledge rich, ensuring access to a wide, global cultural capital – thus maximising lifetime opportunities.
  3. Inclusive, nurturing and tailored towards the needs of the individual.
  4. Focused on developing the very best literacy, numeracy and digital skills – enabling access to the widest learning and the very best careers possible.
  5. Enriching, ensuring all experience a rich variety of cultural, artistic and sporting activities.
  6. Broad in terms of coverage and (at least) encompassing the breadth of the 2014 English National Curriculum.
  7. Celebrates the uniqueness of each educational setting in terms of localised knowledge and skills.
  8. Develops character, personal pride and the highest moral standards.
  9. Celebrates diversity, challenges injustice, promotes equality and encourages the creation of a better world.
  10. Delivered by well-qualified, up-to-date, skilled, passionate teachers.

Beck Row Primary Academy Curriculum Intent statement

We have chosen our Curriculum to inspire all our pupils regardless of their starting points, to achieve well and enjoy learning, with an exciting and enriching topic-based approach. Visits, visitors and memorable experiences build cultural capital in our pupils helping them to experience and appreciate human creativity and achievement. Our values of thoughtfulness, co-operation, morality and respect are lived by us all in many ways each day as the Beck Row family, preparing our pupils for life as active citizens in Modern Britain. We support each other in times of need and celebrate success together. We want our pupils to be ambitious and aim for the best and we reward and celebrate this. Reading is the key to unlocking our knowledge-rich curriculum so we give our youngest pupils the best possible start in learning to read and then continue developing our children as readers as they move through the school.