Springfield Primary School

Hello and welcome to our website. Our school is on a very exciting journey. We enjoy an extremely important partnership with Moor Green Academy, which is part of REACH 2 Multi-Academy Trust. Nicola Fisher, Executive Headteacher from Moor Green Academy, with the assistance of outstanding staff expertise at Moor Green and from across the Trust, is providing our school with specialist leadership and teaching support.

The future for Springfield Primary School and our children is incredibly bright. We intend to provide our children with an education that will lay the foundations for successful learning and development throughout their school career and in later life. Within an environment that values people, hard-work, resilience, humility and respect, we intend our students to leave us fully prepared for their next adventure. To achieve this, we expect the very highest of standards in everything we do. It is my expectation therefore, that staff and students are the very best that they can be, every single day.

We aim to deliver a curriculum that is broad, balanced and based on developing all pupils’ knowledge, skills and understanding across a range of subjects. We are an inclusive school and may offer the following provisions to support children with SEND, over and above High Quality Teaching for all. We are committed to ensure equality of educational opportunity and support for all pupils, parents, carers and staff irrespective of sex, race, disability, religion or belief, sexual orientation, pregnancy, gender reassignment and socio-economic background.

Curriculum Objectives:

• To provide opportunities and activities for children to communicate through speech and writing, and to listen with understanding.
• To provide stimulating reading material that enables children to read accurately, fluently and with understanding for their enjoyment.
• English is applied in all subject areas and enables children to articulate their understanding and learn with enthusiasm and independence.
• To assist in children’s understanding and knowledge of mathematical language
  and the processes that they apply in a variety of tasks.
• To provide opportunities for children to explain the pattern and relationships that forms the basis of mathematics.
• To develop mathematical skills and apply them to practical solutions through
  problem solving and investigations.
• Mathematics is applied to other subject areas and enables children to develop
  enjoyment, interest and a positive attitude towards mathematical understanding.
• To encourage the development of scientific understanding through activities and
  discussion that provide systematic enquiry within a range of experiments and investigations of everyday life. The opportunities we give for question raising in science enable children to use and understand scientific concepts and vocabulary.
• We give children opportunities to experience their own environment and the wider world both past and present through humanities (Geography, History, RE).
• We encourage flexibility and creative thinking in overcoming difficulties and developing new approaches through investigation.
• Children` should approach tasks and activities with enjoyment, independence and interest in practical solutions to learning situations, with independence of thought and action as well as co-operating within a group.

Literacy, Numeracy and Information Technology are skills that run through the whole of the curriculum. In addition a considerable part of each week is given to teaching Mathematics and English as individual subjects and aspects of these are planned in a continuous sequence of lessons or activities. All other subjects are organised within the Cornerstones Curriculum, that are linked to specific topic areas, one topic per half term. Personal and Social Education is taught in specific sessions and through R.E.

At Springfield Primary School we aim to be an ambitious, successful, innovative and dynamic school where positive change and advancement is welcomed, valued and sought after. We are a school that is built upon sound educational values, with an ethos that allows and expects every single member of the school community to thrive and achieve excellence, whilst enjoying their learning and personal development.

The education that we provide our children will cater for their academic, moral, physical and spiritual development, which in our opinion are instrumental in supporting and nurturing a child’s whole education. With these aspects forever at the heart of their curriculum and experiences, our young people will gain the knowledge, skills, resilience, aspirations and moral purpose to make a significant and valued contribution to our immediate and wider global society.