The Mead Infant and Nursery Curriculum Intent Statement

At The Mead Infant and Nursery School we aim to provide an engaging, stimulating, inclusive curriculum that excites our children and is reflective of their interests and experiences. Developing the whole child is at the heart of our ethos and our curriculum ensures that our children become happy successful lifelong learners.

Our curriculum has four key aims that underpin everything we do.

These are, for the children:

• to become effective lifelong learners
• to be able to manage their own well-being and empathise with others
• to know key knowledge and be able to apply skills
• to understand themselves, others and the world around them

To support these key curriculum aims we have developed an inclusive, engaging and coherent, relevant curriculum. We have a holistic approach that allows all of our children to succeed.  Our curriculum ensures that every child, no matter what their individual needs or barriers to learning are, have equal access and the same opportunities to achieve.

To support these key curriculum aims we have developed an inclusive, engaging and coherent, relevant curriculum. We have a holistic approach that allows all of our children to succeed.  Our curriculum ensures that every child, no matter what their individual needs or barriers to learning are, have equal access and the same opportunities to achieve

• We ensure our curriculum is relevant to the child by using our local community, children’s interests and celebrating the diversity of all of our children.
• Our curriculum is broad and balanced and all subjects are given equal importance. Our subjects are carefully sequenced to build on prior knowledge and deepen the children’s understanding.
• Our ambitious curriculum enables all children to succeed and provides opportunities beyond the basic entitlement
• We teach our children how to be effective learners through our PSHCE lessons and promote these in all of our lessons (see appendix 1 Learning Behaviours), providing children with a range of learning opportunities and experiences to enable them to become well rounded, lifelong effective learners.
• We have a whole school focus on well-being. We use Zones of Regulation across the school, KS1 children have weekly yoga sessions and all year groups promote mindfulness and looking after our mental health. Well-being is embedded into our curriculum and part of everyday life at The Mead.
• We ensure that there is depth to our curriculum through challenge and mastery work. This provides opportunity for deeper learning and application through real life problem solving and exploration.
• We assess all areas of the curriculum and reflect on the children’s attainment and achievements, adapting the curriculum as necessary to help close gaps and raise standards.