Godwin Junior School

Learning 

 

At Godwin Junior School, our children enjoy actively participating in their learning, which is exciting, challenging and rewarding. They are encouraged to ask questions, pose hypotheses, explain their thinking and respond thoughtfully to the contributions made by their peers. Through reflecting on their own learning, and with the guidance of their teachers, our children recognise what they need to focus on in order to make further progress.

 

We firmly believe that linking learning across subjects infinitely benefits all of our pupils. With this principle in mind, we have designed an inclusive curriculum with a holistic approach, relevant to all learners and reflecting the diverse community we are proud to be part of.

 

Our bespoke curriculum enables our children to make meaningful, exciting connections and build links across the areas of their learning. It allows for progression and learning over time as the children revisit and build on key concepts time and time again in many topics. This helps pupils to assimilate new information into their growing schema (a mental model of connected ideas or concepts stored in the long-term memory). Research, and our own experience, demonstrates that new knowledge and understanding is retained at a much higher rate through adopting this approach to curriculum organisation.

 

This integrated curriculum is driven by our school values, so that leaners develop a broad and deep understanding of key skills in curriculum subjects as well as becoming spiritually, morally and culturally aware of the national and global society we live in. This is part of Godwin pupils’ understanding of the British Values.

 

Our Curriculum Overviews (below) illustrate the way in which English is the driver for our pupils' learning. Other subjects - such as science, history, geography, art and design and design technology - link directly to this, with carefully planned units of work which allow our children to reinforce and extend their understanding in a range of areas.

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Year 3 Curriculum Overview 

 

Year 4 Curriculum Overview

 

Year 5 Curriculum Overview

 

Year 6 Curriculum Overview

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If you would like more information about any aspect of our school curriculum please speak to Ms Aslam, the Deputy Head, or Ms Brown, the Head Teacher.