Kensington Primary School Prospectus

Curriculum K Curriculum K provides our children with the essential knowledge, social skills, emotional and physical health they require to succeed in the volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous world they are growing up in. It provides them with the foundations to be successful in the next stage of their education but also throughout their lives. It is delivered through four core strands: Academic: Maths, English, Science and Technology Health Communication Cultural Capital Each core area is a carefully sequenced progression of key skills and knowledge from Nursery to Year 6. The four key areas are delivered through a thematic approach, designed around our six key drivers: designers, investigators, explorers, entrepreneurs, creators and problem solvers. All of this has key staging posts and careful assessment built-in to ensure progression towards clearly defined end points. This is combined with seven strategies – based on meta-research into what is most effective – that ensure our children successfully acquire and then secure in their long-term memory the information they are taught. Curriculum K Delivery Our curriculum is designed to introduce a wealth of knowledge and skills within our four key areas with key opportunities to connect new learning to existing knowledge and alter long-term memory. Informed by the latest research, three guiding principles underpin how we deliver our curriculum to ensure the above process occurs: 1. All classroom-based staff have an understanding of episodic and semantic memory and know how and when to build opportunities for each within their planning. 2. We follow a fundamental set of instructional strategies (7K) to ensure children acquire, connect, deepen and remember learning. 3. Metacognitive strategies and discussions are embedded into our curriculum planning to enable our children to become self-regulated learners. Alongside our three guiding principles, we encourage outdoor learning,adopt a continuous provision style of teaching in our EYFS and Y1, and deliver our curriculum holistically. By this we mean that the curriculum is far more than what happens in the classroom during traditional ‘lesson time’; children are developing their knowledge and skills across the curriculum throughout the day. Almost as much learning happens at Kensington: before school; at play and lunch times; after school; during transitions, and at other points. Curriculum K Implementation We will begin introducing elements of Curriculum K into our teaching and learning from September 2019 with an aim to have launched the full curriculum by the Autumn term of 2020. From September, we will teach our new maths, science and physical health curricula and we will begin to implement our fundamental instructional strategies for learning. We will continue to follow our current curriculum, based on the 2014 National Curriculum, for the other subject areas, including English, Art, PSHCE, Music, History, Geography, and Computing, until all four- core areas are fully implemented. Curriculum K Assessment To support the delivery of our new curriculum, we are developing a new assessment system. This will allow us to identify the areas that children still need to develop further. It will also ensure we are clear on the impact Curriculum K is having. We believe that effective assessment is at the heart of children’s learning. Our various assessment systems focus on identifying what children are able to do and what their next steps are. This is achieved through on-going assessment during and after lessons, as well as regular pupil conferences, where children are given the opportunity to reflect on their learning. All of this is recorded electronically through our tracking system, which allows us to measure progress and intervene when we think targeted support is required. 05