At Kirton Lindsey Primary Academy, our curriculum is carefully designed to inspire a lifelong love of learning and to help every child achieve their full potential. Rooted in our core values of Resilience, Respect, and Inspiration, it provides a rich, broad, and balanced education that nurtures curiosity, creativity, and confidence.
We believe that education is about more than academic success - it is about developing the whole child. Through a well-sequenced and ambitious curriculum, pupils gain the knowledge and skills they need to succeed, while learning to be resilient in the face of challenges, respectful towards themselves and others, and inspired to make a positive difference in their community and beyond.
Our approach combines high standards in reading, writing, and mathematics with exciting opportunities in humanities, languages, creative and performing arts and science and technology. Curriculum enrichment comes in the form of trips, visits and memories; and all these experiences bring learning to life, helping children to make meaningful connections between subjects and the wider world.
At Kirton Lindsey Primary Academy, we are proud to offer a curriculum that is inclusive, engaging, and ambitious for all - a curriculum that reflects our values and prepares every child to be the best version of themselves.
Primary Curriculum Overviews
Maths
We provide a curriculum which caters for the needs of all individuals and provides them with the necessary skills and knowledge for to become successful in their future adventures. We prepare them for a successful working life. We want all children to become fluent in the fundamentals of maths, reason mathematically and solve problems by applying their mathematics. Our children develop their range of mathematical vocabulary through hearing and speaking, in order to present justification, argument and proof.
A wide range of mathematical resources are used, and pupils are taught to show their workings in a concrete, pictorial and abstract form wherever suitable. They are taught to explain their choice of methods and develop their mathematical reasoning skills. We encourage resilience and acceptance that struggle and challenge is often a necessary step in learning.
Our curriculum allows children to better make sense of the world around them relating the pattern between mathematics and everyday life.
Science
Children develop an enthusiasm for and enjoyment of science through a range of engaging activities. Their knowledge and understanding of important scientific ideas are developed, along with key processes and skills. Children are taught different ways of thinking, how to find things out and how to communicate their ideas effectively. We endeavour to make lessons thought provoking and inspiring, leading children to wonder, ask questions, research and then discuss their learning at home. We ensure the children become successful, confident and inquisitive learners, enjoying the process of exploring values and ideas through science.
We believe that children learn science best by doing and seeing; by providing the children with a range of opportunities to actively carry out different types of scientific enquiries, we ensure that working scientifically and application of knowledge is embedded into the heart of our science curriculum. We involve outside agencies/other settings and engage in STEM based activities, showing science in ‘real world’ and work based scenarios to further enthuse our pupils’ love of learning in science.
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Design Technology
Design Technology long term plan
We ensure that our children develop the creative, technical and practical expertise needed to perform everyday tasks confidently and to participate successfully in an increasingly technological world. We ensure that children have the skills and abilities required to plan and design, considering the final product. They are given opportunities to build and apply a repertoire of knowledge, understanding and skills in order to design and make high-quality prototypes and products for a wide range of users. We equip them to critique, evaluate and test their ideas and products and the work of others.
In preparation for later life, we educate them to understand and apply the principles of nutrition and learn how to cook and prepare food safely. We ensure they make links with the real world and understand how the skills developed can be applied to their wider life.
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History
We encourage pupils to develop an appreciation and understanding of the past, evaluating a range of primary and secondary sources, explaining clearly how these sources give us an insight about how people around the world used to live and how these interpretations may differ.
A high-quality history education ensures pupils gain a coherent knowledge and understanding of Britain’s past and that of the wider world. It inspires pupils’ curiosity to know more about the past and encourages children to ask questions and think critically, helping them to understand their place in the world.
Pupils are taught to make links between areas of learning, with the aim of developing engaged, motivated, and curious learners who can reflect on the past and make meaningful links to the present day. Through the teaching of history, we will help pupils to appreciate their own identity and challenges in their time, along with developing an understanding of the process of change and significant developments.
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Geography
Our Geography curriculum has been designed to help our pupils develop a greater knowledge of the world, as well as their place in it.
Geography is about understanding the world we live in. It also provides opportunities to provoke and provide answers to questions about the natural and human aspects of the world, using a broad range of subject specific vocabulary that will develop over time.
Geography is an investigative subject, which develops an understanding of subject specific concepts, knowledge and skills, which they are also able to transfer and apply to other curriculum areas.
Through the delivery of Geography we aim to inspire our children to be curious about and interested in the world and the people within it; to understand about the diversity of places, people, resources and natural and human environments, together with a deep understanding of the Earth’s key physical and human processes.
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Art
We offer a rich and vibrant curriculum which is ambitious for all pupils, creating opportunities for all to achieve their full potential. Our curriculum encompasses the National curriculum whilst going beyond the classroom to ensure our children are exposed to the richest and most culturally diverse opportunities we can provide.
We advocate the study and appreciation of a variety of culturally diverse artists, sculptors and architects who can be studied as part of a theme or as a discrete subject. This provides opportunities for discussion of personal experiences at a local, national and international level.
We encourage children to use sketchbooks to explore, experiment and reflect upon learning, mediums and influences allowing them to be creative, critical thinkers and expressive individuals who can draw comparisons from the wider world whilst acknowledging and sharing their ideas, likes and dislikes.
Music
We provide a music curriculum which enables each child to reach their full potential, encouraging all children to sing, compose and perform. All children have the opportunity to perform in front of an audience both within and outside of school.
Children are exposed to music from a range of historical periods, genres, styles and traditions to review and evaluate in order to provide them with an appreciation for music in all its forms. They listen to and evaluate the work of great composers, making judgements and expressing personal preferences about the quality and style of music. Children have opportunities to play instruments, both un-tuned and tuned and use technology to develop their musical skills. We provide all children with the chance to take part in performances with an awareness of audience.
PE
we provide a fun, high-quality PE curriculum that inspires all pupils to participate, succeed and excel in competitive sports and other physically demanding activities. We provide opportunities for all pupils to become physically confident in a way which supports their personal development, health and fitness.
Through Physical Education children develop the knowledge, skills and understanding to enable them to perform with increasing confidence and competence in a range of sports and physical activities and we encourage them to view this as the start of a lifelong learning journey.
Our children have opportunities to participate and compete in a variety of sports and other activities that build character and help them to embed values such as fairness and respect. They develop confidence, tolerance and an appreciation of their own and others’ strengths and weaknesses. Through a variety of sports, children are taught to cooperate and collaborate with others as part of a team, understanding fairness and equity of play.
We aim to ensure that the children’s experience of Physical Education is positive and motivating. All children are encouraged to engage in extra-curricular activities to develop a positive attitude towards physical activity and a healthy lifestyle.
Computing
We help children to thrive and adapt in an ever-changing technological world by equipping them with the understanding, skills and knowledge to enable them to access jobs of the future and become responsible digital citizens.
Computing skills are a major factor in enabling children to be confident, creative and independent learners and we provide them with a range of opportunities to allow them to achieve this. We instill a key understanding of how to keep themselves safe online, to become IT literate and to create programmes to aid tasks in everyday life. Not only do we want pupils to be digitally literate through their computer science lessons, we also want them to develop creativity, resilience, problem-solving and critical thinking skills. By providing our pupils with a breadth of computing experience we support them to develop their understanding of themselves as individuals within their community.
We encourage and support all children to be flexible, creative, responsible and confident users of technology, who are able to choose the best tools to fulfil the whatever task or challenge they are faced with.
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MFL
Children are taught to develop an interest in learning languages in a way that is enjoyable and invigorating. We strive to stimulate and encourage children’s curiosity about language by developing active and inquisitive learners. The curriculum actively encourages a development of awareness of the cultural differences throughout the world whilst actively promoting British Values and providing curriculum enrichment opportunities.
The curriculum is designed to progressively develop the skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing whilst exposing children to a variety of cultural opportunities. It also provides opportunities for children to communicate for practical purposes learn new ways of thinking and read great literature in its original language.
Through a positive language learning experience we aim to provide children with the foundations for learning further languages, equipping them to study and work in other countries.
PSHE (Including RSE and RE)
We equip every child with the skills, knowledge and understanding to navigate the modern world around them: developing a shared set of values; an understanding of healthy relationships; to be able to articulate their feelings and emotions and understand how to lead a healthy lifestyle. The teaching of values underpins all our curriculum and gives children the skills they need to become responsible citizens.
Our children learn about rights and responsibilities; tolerance of others’ beliefs and ideas; the rule of law in society; the role that democracy plays in the running of our society; encouraging pupils to have a mutual respect for others in our local community and a wider diverse society.
As a result of this, they will become more healthy, confident, independent, and responsible members of society who are self-assured when dealing with moral, social, and cultural issues that are a part of growing up.
We ensure that our children acquire the appropriate knowledge, develop their skills and form positive beliefs, values and attitudes. RSE has a key part to play in the personal, social, moral and spiritual development of young people.
Fundamental to our success in being a happy, caring and safe school are positive relationships. Relationships and Sex Education (RSE) allows children to learn about and explore relationships, emotions, looking after ourselves, different families, sex, sexuality and sexual health. We prepare pupils for puberty and give them an understanding of sexual development and the importance of health and hygiene, and how to be safe. Through RSE we also help pupils develop feelings of positive self-esteem, self-respect, confidence and empathy, and create a positive culture around issues of sexuality and relationships
We want our children to become more healthy, confident, independent, safe and responsible members of society who are self-assured when dealing with moral, social, and cultural issues that are a part of growing up as a result of their learning with us.
Religious Education long term plan
we have an inclusive approach to the teaching of Religious Education. It is imperative in our approach that children can be empathetic to different faiths and belief systems. We believe this can be achieved by introducing our children to a variety of religions and sharing their key beliefs and values and exploring a sense of ‘self’.
Through the RE curriculum, children develop the ability to make reasoned and informed judgements about religious and moral issues, with reference to the beliefs, teachings, practices, and ways of living associated with the major religions represented in the UK.
Children will develop their knowledge of world faiths and deepen their understanding and awareness of beliefs, values and traditions to ignite their curiosity about cultures within the wider world
We aim to create learners who are equipped for the future with skills such as independence, resilience, motivation, and respect. Religious Education is taught to encourage learners to embody these important qualities and become independent, motivated, and respectful of others.
Religious Education is implemented using the Lincolnshire Locally Agreed Syllabus.
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