Our Curriculum Intention
Inspiring Confident Learners, Empowering Bright Futures
At Hadrian Park Primary School, we believe that every child should feel valued, inspired, and empowered to achieve success in all areas of learning. Our curriculum is built upon a Growth Mindset approach, equipping children to become resilient, confident, and lifelong learners, ready to embrace any challenge that comes their way.
Our carefully structured curriculum ensures a broad and balanced experience across all subjects, designed to be rich, experiential, and reflective of our vibrant school community. Through high expectations and dynamic teaching, we empower pupils to not only meet but exceed national standards, fostering a love for learning that lasts a lifetime.
Our Commitment to Learning Excellence
- Unlocking Potential for All: We personalise our curriculum to support pupils working at their own pace, ensuring that every child—from the most gifted to those with SEND and disadvantaged backgrounds—receives the tailored support they need to thrive.
- Reinforcing Success: Our approach is built on repetition, revisiting previous learning, and deepening understanding, so that children develop mastery over essential skills and knowledge.
- Bringing Learning to Life: Pupils are encouraged to apply their knowledge in a variety of contexts, making learning meaningful, relevant, and engaging.
- Building Confident Communicators: We support children to recognise and celebrate their own progress, fostering self-belief and a sense of achievement in all they do.
- Deep Thinking for Deeper Learning: Our curriculum design develops a deeper understanding of skills and processes, enabling pupils to think critically, problem-solve, and apply knowledge creatively.
- A Culture of Aspiration and Enrichment: We incorporate a Growth Mindset approach, ensuring that every child believes in their potential, embraces challenges, and sees effort as the pathway to success. Our curriculum also builds cultural capital through enriching experiences that broaden horizons and inspire ambition.
Our Educational Promise
By the age of seven, every child at Hadrian Park will be a confident reader, unlocking the doors to the wider curriculum and beyond. If any child faces barriers to this, we are committed to doing whatever it takes to help them catch up—because every child deserves the key to success.
Our mission is simple: to create ambitious, confident, and capable learners who are ready to shape their futures and make a difference in the world.
Implementation of Our Curriculum
Empowering Learning, Inspiring Excellence, Unlocking Potential
At Hadrian Park Primary, our curriculum is not just a framework—it is a journey of discovery designed to ignite curiosity, build deep understanding, and empower every child to thrive. We recognise that the needs of our pupils are ever-changing, and so we embrace an adaptive, innovative, and forward-thinking approach to curriculum implementation.
We carefully construct learning experiences that are sequential, cumulative, and logically structured, ensuring that every child moves through small, meaningful steps of learning that build confidence and knowledge over time. First-hand experiences and experiential learning are at the heart of our teaching, bringing learning to life and making it purposeful and engaging.
How We Bring Learning to Life
Our curriculum is:
- Delivered with Excellence: Teaching is designed to ensure high-quality sequencing, clarity, and logical progression, allowing pupils to build strong foundations in every subject.
- Anchored in Key Concepts: We meticulously map substantive and disciplinary knowledge, ensuring children grasp the core principles that underpin their learning.
- Focused on What Matters: We identify and reinforce “sticky knowledge”—the most important learning that will remain with pupils beyond the classroom.
- Vocabulary-Rich: We highlight and embed key disciplinary and knowledge-based vocabulary, giving pupils the language they need to articulate their understanding with confidence.
- Cognitively Manageable: Learning is delivered with a clear and structured cognitive load, ensuring children are not overwhelmed but instead, can absorb, process, and apply knowledge effectively.
- Designed for Retention: We help children remember more by adopting a “less is more” approach, prioritising essential learning as a starting point and then building upon it.
- Built on Repetition and Recall: Through retrieval practice, recapping, revisiting, and revising, we embed knowledge deeply, ensuring children can confidently apply their learning in a range of contexts.
- Informed by Assessment: Our approach is continually refined through ongoing and formative assessments, ensuring every child receives the right level of challenge and support.
Creating Success through Quality Teaching
At Hadrian Park, every child is entitled to a feeling of success. We ensure this by:
- Personalising Learning: Adapting our teaching to meet each child’s unique starting point, ensuring all learners—including the most gifted, those with SEND, and disadvantaged pupils—are fully supported.
- Promoting Higher-Order Thinking: Encouraging children to think critically, question deeply, and develop a richer, more meaningful understanding of the world around them.
- Upholding High Standards: Our commitment to consistently high expectations ensures that every child is supported to reach and exceed National Expectations.
- Ensuring PACE of Learning: Teaching is structured to provide the right level of challenge, acceleration, and depth, ensuring that pupils move forward confidently in their learning journey.
- Embedding Daily Assessment: We use responsive teaching strategies to monitor progress, identify gaps, and tailor instruction, ensuring that learning is impactful, meaningful, and effective.
Our curriculum implementation is driven by our belief that every child can succeed when given the right opportunities, experiences, and encouragement. We don’t just teach—we inspire, motivate, and unlock potential so that every child leaves Hadrian Park equipped with the knowledge, skills, and confidence to shape their future.
Impact of Our Curriculum
Shaping Bright Futures, Unlocking Potential, and Inspiring Success
At Hadrian Park Primary, we are committed to ensuring that every child flourishes academically, socially, and personally. Our curriculum is carefully designed to empower children with the knowledge, skills, and confidence they need to succeed—not just in school, but in life.
Through our broad, balanced, and enriching curriculum, we create an environment where pupils develop a love for learning, a belief in themselves, and the resilience to overcome challenges. We measure the impact of our curriculum not only through academic outcomes but also through the confidence, independence, and aspirations of our pupils.
Our Children Will Have a Feeling of Success Through:
- Confidence in Learning: Pupils are articulate, reflective learners who can recount and apply their knowledge with clarity, depth, and purpose.
- Resilience and Growth Mindset: We instil the belief that mistakes are part of learning, helping pupils to shine, flourish, and embrace challenges as they work towards their full potential.
- A Deep and Secure Knowledge Base: Our curriculum ensures that pupils acquire and retain key facts, vocabulary, and concepts, enabling them to make meaningful connections across subjects.
- Exceeding Expectations: Pupils are supported and challenged to reach and surpass age-related expectations, equipping them with the skills they need to thrive.
- Exceptional Progress for All: Our high-quality teaching and personalised support enable every child—regardless of background or ability—to make outstanding progress academically, socially, and emotionally. 11
- Preparation for the Future: Pupils leave Hadrian Park fully prepared for the next stage of their education, equipped with a strong foundation for lifelong learning.
- Ready for Life Beyond School: We nurture curious, ambitious, and well-rounded individuals who are motivated to lead fulfilling lives and successful careers.
At Hadrian Park, we do more than educate—we inspire, empower, and unlock opportunities for every child to become a confident, capable, and successful lifelong learner.
If you would like more information about our curriculum, please contact your child’s class teacher or speak with our Senior Leadership Team, who collectively lead on this area.
