Manley Park Primary School

Our Aim for The Future of Manley Park Primary School Is to Continue to Build on The Things We Do Well to Give Our Pupils Memorable, Meaningful Learning Experiences in A Happy and Safe Environment.  We Have a Strong Emphasis on Personal Development and Offer Excellent Pastoral Care. We Understand, More Now than Ever, the Importance of Health and Wellbeing.

We Hope to Inspire Our Pupils to Uncover New Interests Through Our Broad Curriculum and Rich Extracurricular Offer. We Promise to Provide Opportunities to Nurture and Develop Pupils' Talents, Their Sense of Self and Their Understanding of The Wider World. Through Their Time Spent with Us, We Are Confident that Children Will Leave Us Equipped with Self-Confidence and Resilience, Along with The Skills and Knowledge to Contribute Positively to Their Communities.

Together We Aim to Provide an Education and Environment Which Supports and Enriches the Lives of All Our Children, Enabling Them to Be the Best that They Can Be. We Strive to Nurture Individuals on Their Unique Journeys by Providing a Welcoming, Safe and Stimulating Learning Environment.We Love that Our Pupils Bring Different Experiences, Interests and Strengths to Share with Each Other.

As a Team of Staff We Take Our Inspiration from Our Pupils, Whose Ideas, Knowledge and Passion Drive Us to Be the Best that We Can Be Too.

The School’s Six Values Permeate All that We Do: Respect, Responsibility, Patience, Understanding, Compassion and Positivity. Adults and Children Exemplify These Values.

Academic Progress and Success Is Integral to Everyday Practice. We Combine This with A Curriculum that Develops Positive Local and Global Citizens, and We Pride Ourselves on The Understanding and Positive Relationships We Have Throughout the School.

To Become Responsible Citizens, Pupils Need to Learn to Be Accountable: Accountable for Their Learning and Their Behaviour. Children Interact with Adults Continuously Throughout Lessons by Consistent Use of Assessment for Learning Tools. Children Use Whole School Talk Prompts to Support and Challenge One Another’s Thinking. We Value ‘partial Thinking’ and We Want to Promote and Celebrate It. We Believe Children Need to Learn in An Environment Where They Can Take Risks and Ask for Support.

We believe that our curriculum must prepare pupils for a life in modern Britain and subsequently become socially responsible local and global citizens.  We want to help our pupils to develop an awareness of themselves and the positive impact they can have.  This is made possible through our curriculum themes and emotional intelligence values.

Our six themes have been adapted from ‘The 8 Key Concepts of the Global Dimension in Education’. These reflect our aspirations for our pupils to gain the knowledge, skills and understanding of concepts to become informed, active, responsible citizens.

The themes start in Nursery and progress through to year 6.  Each theme repeats annually, therefore having a spiral effect.  During each key phase of learning, the complexity of the theme progresses.  This is developed through key questions that drive learning in each year group.

Learning across the curriculum maintains subject integrity. Where possible, it is also rooted in the context of a theme, providing purposeful connections to support memorable learning.

By making these themes the foundations of all our learning we provide a curriculum that creates aspirational children who understand the world they live in and are equipped with the skills and knowledge to have a positive and meaningful impact on it.

The curriculum is ambitious and designed to give all pupils the skills, knowledge and cultural capital they need to succeed in life. We aim to create a curriculum and learning climate founded on enquiry, which builds on embedding reasoning and questioning.  P4C pedagogy deepens children’s understanding of big ideas and key concepts. These principles enable children to become confident, thinking communicators that make links across their learning and experiences.

Each of our individual subject curriculums are driven by the National Curriculum aims and requirements. Knowledge and skills are sequenced for each subject by well-informed subject coordinators, ensuring that effective sequencing and progression occurs whilst cognitive load is managed effectively. Each subject has half termly units of works planned to support the effective teaching and learning of the subject.