Curriculum

At Lakenham, we passionately believe that all our children deserve access to an education that will provide them with life-fulfilling opportunities and the freedom to make choices about their future. 

Our curriculum is designed to equip the children with the knowledge and skills they need at each stage of their educational journey, while upholding and promoting our core school values. 

By focussing on three intrinsically linked key drivers - Enjoying what the they are learning, Achieving the best they can from their own starting points and Believing in themselves, we provide children with the opportunity to thrive in fundamental areas, preparing them to be not only 'next stage read' but also 'life ready as global citizens. 

Through a carefully sequenced core curriculum, alongside an inspiring wider curriculum, children at Lakenham will leave with:

• The confidence and skills to express themselves effectively
• Fluent reading skills, combined with a passion for reading, supporting them in understanding and interpreting the world
• An acceptance and appreciation of others' differences
• Tools and strategies to ensure positive wellbeing and happiness
• The capacity for self-regulation, enabling them to take control of their learning and themselves
• Character defining and memorable childhood experiences that foster the development of cultural capital.

Curriculum Implementation

Our curriculum is built upon the foundations of the National Curriculum, with subjects carefully planned and sequenced with key knowledge and subject-specific skills children must master at each stage. For some subjects, the school has developed its own sequential and progressive curriculum, ensuring the local context is reflected. In other subjects, external schemes of work have been adopted and/or tailed to meet the needs of our children.

Each unit includes essential learning questions for children to explore, alongside key subject skills that are developed progressively from the Early Years to Year 6. This approach fosters the growth of key concepts and schemas, ensuring both knowledge and skills build over time.

Key vocabulary is explicitly highlighted and taught throughout all lessons, aligned with the Lakenham Learning sequence. Additionally, the consistent use of high-quality texts across the curriculum maximises opportunity for reading and vocabulary development.

 Curriculum Impact

 The aim of our curriculum is to ensure success for all pupils, regardless of their backgrounds or starting points. Pupils' success is reflected through various outcomes across our curriculum drivers - Enjoy, Achieve and Believe.:

• Children are motivated to learn and establish positive attitudes, preparing them for a successful future
• Disadvantaged children are provided with opportunities and experiences to achieve as well as their peers
• Children with SEND thrive both academically and personally from their starting points, as a result of an inclusive curriculum, focusing on the individual needs of each child.
• Children are ready for secondary school, equipped with the necessary knowledge and skills
• Children are happy and demonstrate a range of tools to regulate emotions
• Children understand and value the important of being physically healthy
• Children believe in themselves, their abilities and what they can achieve in their future

Wider Curriculum

We strongly believe it is essential that primary schools are proactive in their approaches towards wellbeing and this is at the heart of Lakenham's wider curriculum. A structured, purposeful whole school approach and mission helps to support pupils in developing lifelong positive wellbeing and can strengthen any additional support pupils may have for mental health and wellbeing. 

Lakenham Passports

We have developed with parents, pupils and staff, 10 things per year for each year group to do, to ensure that all children in our school have the opportunities which our community believes comes outside of the National Curriculum. The impact exposes children to unique experiences, often increases resilience, independence and confidence. We often see children develop different relationships with peers and adults during these times and motivation increases. Click on the year group to see what is in stall for each year group.

Lakenham Passport

LOTC

We offer as many experiences as possible for children to explore their learning in different environments, such as weekly Nature School sessions. But also the LOTC focus we have for the school - learning can happen anywhere.

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OPAL - Outdoor Play and Learning

 How do we teach our curriculum?

Our teaching and learning policy highlights our consistent pedagogical approach across all subjects. We use the Learning at Lakenham process.

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 Curriculum Subjects

You can explore our curriculum further by clicking here.

If you would like to find out more about our curriculum please contact the school office and ask to speak to our Assistant Headteacher for Teaching and Learning - Mrs Jo Wallis.