Oakfield Primary Academy

Intent

Oakfield Primary Academy is a close, community-centred school which nurtures independent, confident learners who are equipped for the future. Working together, we provide a safe, inclusive environment in which every child is a valued member. Oakfield is a place where all children love learning.  Children experience great teaching through an enriching curriculum that is relevant, varied and engaging.

Our curriculum had to be carefully crafted to meet the needs of our children. We wanted our curriculum to:

Raises aspirations for all pupils

Give learning a REAL purpose​

Inspire and immerses pupils in their learning

Underpinned by the school values and learning behaviours

Ensure that children are secondary ready by being heavily based on skills

Is memorable and experiential

Celebrates the process of learning

Promotes collaboration within the school and wider community

Provides entrepreneurial experiences

Promotes SMSC and British Values

Implementation

At Oakfield Primary Academy, our concentric curriculum motivates, engages and inspires the pupils through a series of learning journeys that we have titled ‘mini-adventures’.

All of the curriculum areas are then delivered through this adventure. The beginning of each adventure is designed to hook all pupils in and acts as the ‘stunning start’ to the learning. Pupils are also made aware of what the ‘fantastic finish’ for this adventure will be so that they can always put their learning into context across the mini adventure.

The learning journey that the pupils go on, covers all subjects and are captured in one book.  The adventures allow for clear coverage of the National Curriculum. Coverage of curriculum areas is evident in the school’s curriculum coverage plans.

Teaching and learning is underpinned by cognitive challenge. Teachers use the principles of Bloom’s Taxonomy to ensure differentiation is appropriate and does not place a glass ceiling on learning for any pupil.

Differentiation occurs by careful and strategic task matching and questioning and staff create the correct conditions for learning by delivering learning centralising around a learning objective and providing opportunities for depth within this.

The environment engages and inspires pupils but is also language rich to support the pupil’s oracy and writing development throughout the mini-adventure. ​

A focus for our adventures is to prepare our pupils to be ‘secondary ready’ by the time they leave Oakfield Primary Academy. This is achieved by providing contextualized, purposeful learning that develop life skills, learning behaviours and focuses on pupils’ development in becoming writers, mathematicians, historians and geographers etc.

Throughout the adventures, pupils are given opportunities to reflect on how their learning attitudes are developing in accordance to the learning behaviours. Pupils demonstrating these attitudes are recognised and rewarded within the classroom and the whole school celebration assembly.

At Oakfield Primary Academy, we believe the bridge between teaching and learning is assessment. Therefore, our feedback policy is an integral aspect to the curriculum. The feedback policy ensures that learning is addressed and celebrated or moved forward in accordance to the essential learning objective where the planning has been derived from. At Oakfield feedback is positive, reflective, challenging and provides opportunities for a teacher to communicate how successful a piece of work is and how this can be further improved. Pupils are given time to reflect on the feedback that the teacher gives. ​

Subjects taught thematically

• Literacy Genres
• History
• Geography
• Art
• Design/technology
• Science
• ICT

RE

Each half term, every class within Oakfield will learn about different themes from the Warwickshire and Coventry Agreed Syllabus for RE. This learning will form an RE focused 'mini-mission.' For further information, please see https://www.warwickshire.gov.uk/sacre 

 Click here for our RE topic overview.

PSHE

Oakfield Primary Academy recognises the value of Physical Education (P.E). We fully adhere to the aims of the national curriculum for physical education to ensure that all children:

• develop competence to excel in a broad range of physical activities
• are physically active for sustained periods of time
• engage in competitive sports and activities
• lead healthy, active lives
• allow every child to experience external sporting competition within their journey through Oakfield
• offer unique sporting experiences

Implementation

P.E. is taught at Oakfield Primary Academy as an area of learning in its own right as well as integrated where possible with other curriculum areas. It is taught at a minimum of one PE session a week, and two sessions per week wherever possible.

To ensure breadth and depth of skill progression, Oakfield uses the GetSet4PE scheme of learning and the following curriculum map:

We teach lessons so that children:

• Have fun and experience success in sport
• Have the opportunity to participate in P.E at their own level of development
• Secure and build on a range of skills
• Develop good sporting attitudes
• Understand basic rules
• Experience positive competition
• Learn in a safe environment
• Have a foundation for lifelong physical activity, leaving primary school as physically active.

The safety of children and adults across Oakfield is our first priority. As such, we have adjusted the way in which implement our PE sessions. A comprehensive risk assessment is available to view upon request. We have created an interim PE curriculum map which ensures equipment will not be shared across bubbles. In addition, all equipment will be sanitized after every use. Contact sports are not currently allowed and we will review this in-line with government guidance. Yoga has been introduced into the curriculum to support children's ability to self regulate and develop relaxation strategies. In regards to wider PE opportunities, Level 1 competition will temporarily replaced by personal best challenges. Level 2 and Level 3 competitions will continue to be undertaken virtually. 

Impact

P.E is taught as a basis for lifelong learning, where the children have access to a wide range of activities in the belief that if taught well and the children are allowed to succeed, then they will continue to have a physically active life. A high-quality physical education curriculum inspires all children to succeed and excel in competitive sport and other physically demanding activities. At Oakfield, we provide opportunities for children to become physically confident in a way which supports their health and fitness. Opportunities to compete in sport and other activities build character and help to embed values such as fairness and respect. The impact of sporting provision is also further evaluated within our Sports Premium Allocation and Impact Statement.

To fulfil the National Curriculum requirements at both stages, Oakfield Primary Academy children will be given the knowledge, skills and understanding to:

Key stage 1 focus:

•  Use their voices expressively and creatively by singing songs and speaking chants and rhymes.
• Play tuned and untuned instruments musically.
• Listen with concentration and understanding to a range of high-quality live and recorded music.
• Experiment with, create, select and combine sounds using the inter-related dimensions of music. 

Key stage 2 focus: 

• Play and perform in solo and ensemble contexts, using their voices and playing musical instruments with increasing accuracy, fluency, control and expression.
• Improvise and compose music for a range of purposes using the inter-related dimensions of music.
• Listen with attention to detail and recall sounds with increasing aural memory.
• Use and understand staff and other musical notations.
• Appreciate and understand a wide range of high-quality live and recorded music drawn from different traditions and from great composers and musicians.
• Develop an understanding of the history of music. 

Our school uses an interactive Charanga Music School scheme of work as the basis for its curriculum planning. While there are opportunities for children of all abilities to develop their skills and knowledge in each teaching unit, the progression planned into the Charanga scheme of work means that the children are increasingly challenged as they move through the school.

Our 'units of work' are divided into 6 steps, which are delivered over a half term. The activities cover the musical dimensions, (formerly elements - pulse, rhythm, pitch,etc) through singing and playing instruments, listening and creating music - all intrinsically linked through a central song or piece. 

For more information about Charanga, see https://charanga.com/site/musical-school/

Oakfield Primary Academy EYFS & Concentric Curriculum Maps