Powerful Knowledge

• A mastery approach, whereby concepts, knowledge and skills are carefully sequenced so that each time they are revisited the children can deepen this further
• Lesson are built on prior learning to enable children to make connections and build schemata. Progress is determined by pupils knowing more and remembering more
• Our curriculum promotes the mastery of language through structured teaching of vocabulary
• Reading is at the heart of our curriculum and used a starting point to access new learning
• The curriculum is subject specific, planned to ensure depth within a teaching sequence and overtime

Education with Character

• Explicit links are made to allow children to question the world around them and form moral opinions
• Experiences both link to the curriculum and beyond allow children to develop confidence and an understanding of the wider world
• Our school family and class family ethos is at the centre of our ‘hidden curriculum’
• Links with the local community are interwoven to ensure that children better understand the community that they live in
• Learning through collaboration is a key strategy to allow pupils to learn from each other
• The school is committed to providing Silverdale’s Top 20 prior to a child leaving Year 6

 The Best from Everyone

• It is every child’s entitlement to be taught the whole curriculum
• High expectations and aiming for excellence bring out the best in everyone
• An inclusive curriculum that allows all pupils to learn
• Challenge is at the heart of our curriculum, seeing children develop resilience to overcome challenge and achieve their best
• A focus on ‘the little big things’ enables even the smallest of challenges to bring about an ethos of continuous improvement

 Leadership in Every Role

• Job roles for children develop a sense of ownership and responsibility across the school
• Teachers develop expertise through the development and fine tuning of a stable curriculum
• Curriculum leaders are developed through high quality CPD, including new learning that is subject specific