Curriculum Intent Statement

Hall Road Academy provides a curriculum that is ambitious and designed to give all learners the depth and breadth of knowledge they need to succeed.

Our curriculum fulfills the statutory legal requirements of the EYFS and National Curriculum in addition to the school’s ‘hidden’ curriculum which reflects the school’s values, British Values and PSHE whilst also supporting the needs of our community. We believe in making learning fun and memorable and we ensure links across lessons to make learning meaningful, purposeful and ‘real’. Throughout all of our teaching, our children are exposed to a wide range of rich vocabulary which is developed daily in spoken and written activities. This ensures that all pupils, especially children that arrive at our school with little or no English, leave fully able to make sense of, and contribute to, modern British society.

The school’s focus on curriculum development ensures children achieve the basics in reading, writing, grammar, punctuation, spelling and mathematical recall and reasoning. Continuous assessment at-the-point-of learning ensures that all children are challenged and encouraged to reach their potential. A cross-curricular approach to topics connects skills and knowledge within a variety of subject areas. We plan our topics around a two-year cycle (A and B). We link our topics to engaging texts which provide context to learning alongside our large, creatively produced topic books which give children a sense of pride in the presentation of their work.