Inspiring, Challenging, Empowering
Inspiring, Challenging, Empowering
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At Trerobart Primary School, we believe in igniting a passion for learning that inspires every child to thrive. We set high expectations, challenge our learners to push boundaries and celebrate their successes along the way. Our nurturing and inclusive environment fosters resilience, curiosity and confidence, helping each child grow into an empowered, independent learner.
Our vision is simple: to give every child the very best possible start in life, empowering them to not only succeed but to excel in all they do.
Our Curriculum Design: IGNITE
We have designed and created the IGNITE Curriculum—a bespoke approach to learning that reflects our values, our learners and our community.
IGNITE stands for:
I – Inspiring: We ignite curiosity and a passion for learning, encouraging every child to strive for continuous improvement and personal development.
G – Growth: We provide opportunities for all learners to be stretched and challenged, supporting their growth, independence and resilience through expert guidance and constructive struggle.
N – Nurture: We empower learners to take ownership of their learning, offering choice, building voice and teaching metacognitive strategies to help them lead their own success.
I – Imagine: We encourage creativity and innovation, giving learners the space to explore ideas, experiment and develop their imagination.
T – Tenacity: We celebrate resilience and perseverance, helping learners face challenges head-on and keep going, even when things get tough.
E – Excellence: We hold high expectations and aim for excellence in all areas of learning, ensuring that every child reaches their full potential.
Our IGNITE Curriculum fosters a learning environment where learners are inspired to grow, develop a strong sense of independence, demonstrate resilience and pursue excellence in everything they do. By focusing on these key principles, we aim to equip all learners with the skills, knowledge and confidence they need to succeed.
Core Elements
Core Elements
We achieve our IGNITE Curriculum through four core elements:
Extensive opportunities to explore, question and create: We provide a rich learning environment where curiosity thrives, allowing students to ask questions and engage in hands-on experiences that spark creativity and critical thinking.
Expert tuition that sets high expectations and unlocks potential: Our dedicated staff deliver high-quality, evidence-informed teaching that challenges learners and supports them to achieve their best.
Purposeful practice that deepens knowledge and skills: We believe in revisiting and refining key concepts through carefully sequenced learning, helping children build deep, meaningful understanding over time.
Learning to sustain personal effort over time: We encourage perseverance and resilience, helping learners develop the tenacity to keep going even when faced with challenge and the ability to see tasks through to completion.
These four elements form the foundation of our IGNITE Curriculum; a vibrant, thematic, knowledge and skills rich model that sparks curiosity, challenges thinking and builds independence.
Curriculum for Wales: A Foundation for Learning
Curriculum for Wales: A Foundation for Learning
Our curriculum is rooted in the Curriculum for Wales framework and built around the Four Purposes, ensuring every child becomes:
Ambitious, capable learners ready to learn throughout their lives
Enterprising, creative contributors ready to play a full part in life and work
Ethical, informed citizens of Wales and the world
Healthy, confident individuals ready to lead fulfilling lives as valued members of society
We personalise learning to reflect our children’s interests, needs and contexts, both local and global, so that every learner feels valued, engaged and empowered.
Curriculum Structure: From Vision to Reality
At Trerobart Primary School, our curriculum is designed to foster coherence, creativity and progression, while promoting learner voice and purpose in every classroom.
Transdisciplinary Themes & Whole-School Concepts
Each term, the whole school explores a transdisciplinary theme, which acts as an umbrella for learning across all year groups. Each theme is also linked to a whole-school concept - a powerful idea that brings depth, global relevance and values-based learning to the forefront.
Example of transdisciplinary themes and their accompanying whole-school concepts include:
Our World, Our Home → Sustainability and Global Citizenship
This approach ensures all learners are thinking critically about big ideas, building empathy and developing a sense of their place in the world.
Big Questions (Class-Specific Contexts)
Within each theme and concept, individual classes have their own enquiry question. These questions provide a meaningful anchor for learning, ensuring knowledge and skills are developed through relevant and engaging contexts.
Examples (under the theme Our World, Our Home , concepts Sustainability and Global Citizenship):
Year 1/2: How do we protect the World’s oceans?
Year 4/5/6: Do we need nature more than it needs us?
Year 5/6: How do natural disasters shape our World?
Learners revisit their big question at the end of the project to reflect, evaluate and share their learning in a purposeful way; through exhibitions, presentations, creative outcomes or community action.
Cross-Curricular Responsibilities
In line with the Curriculum for Wales, our curriculum integrates the three statutory cross-curricular responsibilities across all areas of learning:
Literacy
Numeracy
Digital Competence
These are carefully mapped and embedded within learning experiences, ensuring all pupils have regular, purposeful opportunities to develop and apply these essential skills.
Cross-Cutting Themes
We also ensure that the four cross-cutting themes are meaningfully woven throughout learning:
Welsh dimension – developing pride in Welsh identity, culture, and history
International perspective – fostering global citizenship and intercultural understanding
Relationships and sexuality education (RSE) – supporting personal development and healthy relationships
Human rights and diversity – promoting equity, inclusion and respect
These themes are not taught in isolation but explored through real contexts and rich questions, ensuring learners grow into ethical, informed citizens of Wales and the world.
Integral Skills
Our curriculum nurtures the four integral skills that underpin the four purposes. We provide authentic opportunities for learners to:
Develop creative skills – generating and refining ideas, solving problems and expressing themselves
Think critically and solve problems – analysing information, evaluating evidence and making informed decisions
Build personal effectiveness – showing initiative, managing time and emotions and working independently
Work collaboratively – listening actively, sharing responsibility and building positive relationships
Progression and Pedagogy
Progression and Pedagogy
Our curriculum is supported by high-quality learning and teaching that enables every learner to make meaningful progress over time. We believe that progression should be ambitious, inclusive, and informed by a shared professional understanding.
Understanding Progression
Staff have developed a deep understanding of progression by:
Using the Statements of What Matters and the Principles of Progression to guide planning
Mapping out key knowledge, skills and experiences across each phase and progression step
Revisiting key concepts regularly to build schema, deepen understanding and strengthen long-term memory
We are committed to purposeful planning and reflective practice, ensuring teaching meets the needs of all learners and builds from where they are to where they need to go.
Backwards Design for Meaningful Learning
We use a backwards design model to plan effectively:
Identify Desired Results – What do we want learners to know and understand?
Determine Acceptable Evidence – How will we know they’ve understood?
Plan Learning Experiences – What’s the best way to teach this?
This ensures that learning is intentional, outcome-driven and grounded in purpose.
Pedagogical Principles
Our pedagogical approaches are chosen deliberately using the 12 pedagogical principles from Curriculum for Wales. We select strategies that:
Sustain learner engagement and motivation
Support wellbeing, independence and collaboration
Foster metacognition, oracy and curiosity
Align with our vision to inspire, challenge and empower every child
Our staff continually reflect on practice to refine teaching, ensure equity and respond to emerging needs, always striving to provide the best possible start in life for every learner.
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