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The Curriculum
We offer a broad and balanced curriculum in order to help children:
- Be healthy
- Stay safe
- Enjoy and achieve
- Make a positive contribution
- Achieve economic well being
At Buttershaw Primary School we place vital importance on literacy and numeracy skills. We aim to teach children to express themselves clearly in both speech and writing and to develop their reading skills. Children are taught to use grammar correctly, to spell and to punctuate correctly in order to communicate effectively in written English. We also seek to extend children’s literacy skills when we teach the other national curriculum subjects. We believe that the capability of children to benefit from the curriculum is largely determined by their development in basic skills - that is their level of competence in:
- literacy (reading, writing, speaking and listening)
- numeracy
- information communications technology (ICT)
The development of children’s competence in these basic skills is central to the work of our school. Literacy and numeracy are taught daily in each year group. The following principles form the basis for all educational provision at Buttershaw Primary School:
- All children, whatever their gender, race, religion, culture, language, national origin, social class or other special circumstances should have full access to the whole range of educational opportunities and be encouraged to attain as highly as possible.
- The people of Bradford come from a wide variety of different, social, cultural, racial and religious backgrounds. We welcome this rich diversity and it is highly valued. We seek to ensure that this diversity enriches the curriculum for the benefit of individual pupils and the community.
- The capabilities of children are not fixed and their educational needs change. People learn in different ways and at different rates throughout life. We seek to achieve the highest possible quality of provision in response to those different needs.
- Education should be seen as a life long process in which the school curriculum makes a major contribution by promoting appropriate attitudes and values as well as developing, knowledge, understanding and the skills required for learning.
- It should be coherent, challenging, stimulating and progressive for each child, ensuring continuity of development.
- At Buttershaw we endeavour to secure an environment where each individual is valued and where children develop a positive self-image, increase their self-esteem and be encouraged to develop their abilities to the full.
- Learning should be fun. We seek to provide an enjoyable, wide ranging and supportive school experience. This will help us promote attainment, progress and the development of the whole person.
- Assessment is a continuous process of recognising achievement and development. It informs both the learner and the teacher and provide each with a basis to plan for further progress. Our assessments are rigorous and inevitably involve the learner in identifying what he or she might achieve and how. Continuous assessment forms a sound basis for further progress in both teaching and learning
- Assessment provides data which supports us in evaluating the quality ofcurriculum provision, particularly in respect of teaching and learning and their impact on attainment and progress. We use assessment information to set realistic but challenging targets for groups/individual children which enable teachers to maintain high expectations and monitor progress.
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