The Corpus Curriculum
Our Curriculum Intent
Golden Threads are our 'Big Ideas' which underpin the knowledge, understanding and skills of our curriculum. We have developed five golden threads:
- How our actions affect our world and can cause harm.
- How our world affects our lives.
- How and why people travel.
- How we share similarities and celebrate differences.
- How we are called to love others.
The idea of a thread is to reflect our desire to explore, develop and enhance our fundamental concepts in every year group and over time. We believe teaching in isolation through a theme or topic approach, while often intersting at the time, has minimal impact on the child. The following principles formed the basis in developing our Golden Threads:
- Knowledge is at the heart of effective teaching and learning and the more knowledge children have the more they will make sense of the concepts taught.
- While concepts require knowledge to make sense, learning is more than just knowledge and the ability to recall information. Learning requires pupils to understand knowledge, to be able to apply knowledge to different contexts and to recall previous knowledge to assist in acquiring new knowledge. If it is not in the long term memory it hasn't been learned; it has been experienced.
- Learning is most effective when children have the opportunity to build on prior learning. Knowledge, skills and understanding must be carefully planned and organised so learning is sequential and developmental.
- For knowledge to become embedded into long term memory, children need to develop understanding by applying knowledge into real contexts, contexts which excite and engage children- what we at Corpus Christi refer to as contextualised teaching and learning.
- Children need to be provided with a breadth of contexts to ensure their understanding does not become context bound resulting in children struggling or unable to transfer knowledge from one context to another.
- Children (and adults) relate to stories and remember the story. Contexts will be taught through stories, stories linked to a person, a place or an event.
- Children have the right to be introduced to the best that has been thought and said, for this helps engender an appreciation of human creativity and achievement.
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| R.E | Mathematics | English | Phonics & Early Reading |
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| Science | Geography | History | P.E |
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| Computing | Art | Design | Music |
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| French | Retrieval Practice | Cultural Capital |