Chadwell Primary School

Our capacity to learn something new each day continues throughout our adult lives. Learning doesn’t cease because we are no longer in formal education.At Chadwell, we embrace our responsibility to ensuring that the building blocks for learning are established upon a secure foundation.

At Chadwell, we believe that learning is wider than just academic achievement; developing self-awareness, resilience when faced with challenges, fostering positive social interaction with their peers and promoting British Values are all key to ensuring that our pupils are equipped with the necessary skills for successful future learning.It is important that each and every one of us, including the contribution of parents & carers, plays a part in each child's learning journey throughout their time at Chadwell.

At Chadwell, our curriculum aims to provide a broad and balanced education for all pupils, whilst meeting the requirements of the National Curriculum. We have created an exciting, challenging and fun curriculum that supports our school motto ‘Everyone a Learner’. The school has developed a cross-curricular approach by working on themes and ensuring that the key skills and knowledge are taught through exciting and stimulating activities, projects and enriching learning experiences. We support pupils’ spiritual, moral, social and cultural development through careful selection of themes and reading material.

The core subjects – English, Mathematics and Science – are developed through, and in conjunction with the Foundation subjects including Humanities, D.T, Computing, Art, Music, MFL (French) and R.E. The key skills and knowledge are incorporated into planning to enable pupils to develop knowledge, understand concepts and acquire skills, and to be able to choose and apply these in relevant situations. We promote a positive attitude towards learning and we promote equal access to learning, with high expectations for every pupil and appropriate levels of challenge and support. This includes developing pupils’ independent learning skills and resilience through the promotion of a Growth Mindset so that all pupils and the school community are learners.

A large part of our learning ethos at Chadwell involves learning in a context and having experiences that enrich learning and make it real. We offer a wide range of experiences to all of our children in all of our classes: visits and trips to exciting and interesting places; visitors into school such as drama groups who offer workshops; musicians who perform; artists of all varieties who work alongside the children; and important and interesting people who represent the many groups of our community. We feel that our ‘learning outside of the classroom’ approach to education offers our children a whole different dimension to their learning. At Chadwell, we learn together and see learning as a lifelong commitment.