Curriculum Overview

Over the past few years, we have challenged ourselves to think about all that we do:

What should we teach?

Why, when and how should we teach it?

What are the outcomes we want for every child in our school?

What is the purpose of our curriculum? 

At ACE, our goals are unapologetically ambitious for the children entrusted to our care.

We seek to: enable our children to develop a lifelong love of learning; to develop learning and thinking in order to secure deep knowledge and understanding; foster and build self-confidence, independence and resilience; promote personal and social skills which will ensure a strong sense of self-worth and esteem as well as a strong sense of justice, fairness and respect for others: instill a deep understanding of the Christian faith and respect for other faiths; encourage a love of nature; establish a strong shared set of moral values.

What are our curriculum aims?

At ACE, we want our children to be engaged, confident, curious and excited to learn. In turn, they will retain knowledge, make links within their learning to deepen understanding and will achieve well in all areas of the curriculum.

Our curriculum has been designed to enable our children to be:

• Resilient

• Independent

• Risk takers

• Thinkers, learners and problem solvers 

Our curriculum enables all our children to:

• achieve well in all areas of the curriculum and close the disadvantage gap;

• secure knowledge and understanding and experience a wide breadth of study, across all areas of the curriculum, that is embedded in long term memory;

• develop a rich vocabulary that they are able to confidently use in their speaking, listening, reading and writing;

• grow a strong sense of faith, spirituality and social conscience

• nurture a love and value of reading beyond the reading scheme

• foster a passion and excitement for learning

Teaching and Learning at ACE

We are committed to ensuring the best possible provision for our children, in order that they may achieve their full potential in all areas of the curriculum. 

High quality, inclusive and adaptive teaching is an essential component of our curriculum so that our intent translates into outstanding teaching at the point of implementation:

It is our belief that pupils should be taught in the best way possible according to up-to-date pedagogical thinking:

• ENJOYING their learning;
• THRIVING in a stimulating environment;
• BEING CHALLENGED in their thinking;
• BUILDING resilience;
• DEVELOPING a positive growth mindset and a ‘can do’ approach to learning;
• DEEPENING knowledge and understanding.

Through an effective staff professional development programme we empower and enable our teaching staff to have the skills, knowledge, confidence and enthusiasm to plan and deliver a robust curriculum which addresses the needs of all children including those who face barriers to learning.