Curriculum Implementation

Our curriculum has been carefully designed, with learning opportunities and assessment milestones for each year group crafted, to ensure progression and repetition to embed knowledge and skills.

At Holy Cross, six core values underpin everything that we do, everything that we teach and everything that we aspire for our pupils to be when they leave us: Moral, Grateful, Resilient, Kind, Independent and Curious. Our bespoke curriculum provides constant opportunities to demonstrate and promote our values.

Learning across the curriculum has been mapped out to ensure coverage of the National Curriculum Programmes of Study as well as considering the particular interests and needs of our children whilst ensuring that key concepts are revisited through a progressive curricular design.

Subject specific characteristics highlight what we expect the children to demonstrate in each discrete subject area. They underpin all work completed in these subjects, developing and becoming more embedded as children learn and grow. Knowledge organisers outline the key knowledge that should be learned in each unit of work.

Retrieval practice activities are provided in all lessons and encouraged at home to support children's learning by ensuring knowledge reaches children's long-term memory. "Learning is a change in long-term memory." (Krishner, Sweller and Clarke). Knowledge categories categorise all knowledge and support new learning by enabling children to organise new knowledge into schema.

At Holy Cross we strongly believe in a knowledge-engaged curriculum which underpins and enables the application of skills through cross-curricular teaching, making learning meaningful and relevant to children.