Pupil Voice

Pupil voice, has become the main driving force for making decisions regarding our curriculum and for making our curriculum bespoke and personal to our learners and our school.

During immersion activities at the beginning of every topic, the topic is shared with children, along with activities to help them understand the context of the topic. They then give their input into the topic and teachers use professional judgement to include these ideas in their planning. As the topic progresses, the children tick their ideas off on 'I Wonder' displays and 'Mission Walls' to show that their idea has been used in order to celebrate their contributions to the curriculum.

While discussing what the topic might involve, pupils come up with their own questions which they would like to find the answer to, related to the topic. These questions are used by the teacher and incorporated into their lessons and plans, as well as being used to give pupils the the opportunity to choose which questions they'd like to work on in weekly independent learning sessions e.g. ‘Wonder Wednesday', 'Thinking Thursday', and 'Find out Friday’.

Our older KS2 pupils also plan weekly with their teacher during 'EPIC' sessions at the beginning of the week (Everyone, Plans, In, Class) ensuring topics are pupil led.