Curriculum Overview

Curriculum

At Seaton Academy our curriculum has been designed for the context of our setting. We have ensured our curriculum is mapped and sequenced coherently to meet the learning needs of each individual child. Our curriculum has a focus on foundational knowledge with a wider rich curriculum that is driven by and is as ambitious as the scope and depth of the National Curriculum/ EYFS statutory guidance. 

We further extend our curriculum offer by building our learning around ten fundamental ‘big ideas’ through Cornerstones ‘Curriculum Maestro’, they are:

Humankind – Understanding what it means to be human and how human behaviour has shaped the world.

Nature – Understanding the complexities of the plan and animal species that inhabit the world.

Processes – Understanding the many dynamic and physical processes that shape the world.

Place and Space – Understanding the visual cultural, social and environmental aspects of places around the world.

Creativity – Understanding the creative process and how everyday and exceptional creativity can shape the world.

Comparison – Understanding how and why things are the same or different.

Investigation – Understanding the importance of investigation and how this has led to significant change in the world.

Significance – Understanding why significant people, places, events and inventions matter and how they have shaped the world.

Materials – Understanding the properties of all matter, living and non-living.

Change – Understanding why and how things have changed over time.

These ‘big ideas’ enhance the experience, challenge and enjoyment of learning and allow our children to see clear links between aspects of the curriculum.  By delivering the curriculum this way, children learn more and remember more. They develop knowledge to understand the purpose and value of their erudition and see its relevance to their past, present and future.

We provide a highly inclusive, coherent and progressive curriculum framework whereby children can develop and demonstrate their creativity and develop new skills and knowledge through a variety of interesting contexts. Our curriculum provides children with diverse, rich and meaningful opportunities from which they can learn and develop a range of transferable skills with an aim to raise aspirations, instil a sense of personal pride in achievement and provide a purpose and relevance for learning.

 

If you wish to find out more you can do so by contacting admin@seatonacademy.co.uk and a member of the Senior Leadership Team will gladly contact you to answer any questions.

EYFS Curriculum Policy

Nursery Overview

Reception Overview

Year 1 Overview

Year 2 Overview