Culloden Primary - A Paradigm Academy

Every child is entitled to a good education, with equal access to knowledge, skills, opportunities, aspirations, life chances and dignity. Your child deserves the best from this school and we seek to provide this in many ways, the most important of which are a well-planned and well taught curriculum, using the Culloden way of learning, in an environment where safety and well-being of our pupils are paramount. However, teachers and school staff cannot do this on their own. When a school community works on this together excellent results can be achieved. This includes parents and/or carers supporting their children at home by encouraging learning, good conduct and high expectations. With this community effort, you can see your children reach their full potential.

Parents play a really important part in the life of our school. They play a particularly important part in their own children’s learning. We encourage parents/carers to come into school, at every opportunity.

We encourage parents/carers to help in classrooms, to be available or to go on school trips and to come into assemblies but the first thing we ask them to do is to get their children to come to school on time and really ready to learn.

We are an inclusive school, which means that we feel that every child should be able to participate in every aspect of school life with a sense of belonging and a sense of being valued.

The curriculum for Paradigm Trust:

• Prepares pupils to lead fulfilling lives and to play an active, positive and productive role in our democratic society.
• Is based on the National Curriculum;
• Enhances pupils’ spiritual, moral, social and cultural development;
• Promotes fundamental British values;
• Makes provision for pupils to develop their literacy and numeracy skills so that they can access all areas of the curriculum;
• Is responsive to both the current and future needs of pupils through planning from now to 2022;
• Accommodates future examination and assessment reforms;
• Ensures that pupils will be equipped with the correct qualifications to gain access to future study and employment;
• Is well organised and staffed appropriately throughout all year groups;
• Prioritises all year groups equally;
• Meets the needs of learners with special educational needs and disabilities;
• Encourages pupils to master skills and deepen knowledge and understanding;
• Prepares pupils for an ever changing, wider world of work;
• Encourages the use of environments and expertise beyond the classroom including immersive learning;
• Provides interesting and varied extra-curricular activities and educational visits to broaden pupils’ experiences;
• Has local, national and international dimensions.
• Ensures that pupils have the background knowledge to interpret new information from sources including texts and images.