CURRICULUM OVERVIEW

As a church school, rooted in God’s love and respect for Christian values, we want the young people of Hope Brook to learn and flourish as inquisitive individuals prepared for life in the world – today and in the future. We want our children to be inspired by a well-planned curriculum that is designed to deepen their understanding and broaden their perspectives on life.

We prioritise success in reading, writing, spelling, grammar, science and mathematical understanding, together with confidence in the use of computing. However, we pride ourselves on our ability to balance this with a broad and enriched curriculum that allows our children ample opportunities to explore art, design technology, music, history, geography, religious education and French as well as a wide range of sporting and outdoor activities.

Our PSHE curriculum has been developed to ensure all our children have the skills they need to be a successful member of both our school community and our modern British society. Alongside this, and underpinning everything we do, is our commitment to supporting our pupils’ spiritual, moral, social and cultural development.

Curriculum Organsiation

At Hope Brook, we use a topic teaching approach. Each topic covers several different subjects but is usually led by a specific subject. We have allocated National Curriculum (subject specific) objectives to each of our topics. We run a two year rolling programme of topics, as shown below. For the academic year 2024 - 2025, we will be in cycle B.

Topic Webs

Our topic webs describe which aspects of the curriculum are being covered. We believe it is important that children understand when they are being taught different subject content, so we try to be clear about which subject is being taught in each lesson. In geography lessons, we want the children to think like sgeographers and in history, we want the children to behave like historians. Our topics largely cover the history and geography curriculum with other subjects linked in where relevant. Our topics are carefully planned to ensure good curriculum coverage, whatever path children take through our five classes. 

Science

For science, we run a one year rolling programme. By re-encountering learning in new ways, children deepen and extend their understanding.

Foundation Subjects

For all other aspects of our foundation subjects which are not covered in our topic themes, we run a three year rolling progamme to ensure curriculum coverage. The following documents show you our programme. 

Progression of Skills

The progression sheets below describe how children's skills develop as they move through our school. There is a separate progression sheet for each subject.

Curriculum Enrichment

At Hope Brook, we try and ensure our basic curriculum is enriched in every way possible to enable children to develop into broad and balanced citizens. The following document records all our curriculum enrichment opportunities.