Curriculum Statement and Curriculum Overview 2023 - 2024
At ACES we offer a creative, broad and balanced curriculum that inspires, motivates and engages children in learning. We believe first hand experiences are essential to give purpose, relevance and meaning to learning. Teachers plan to ensure a progression of skills along with the necessary support and challenges for children to become confident and succeed. Wherever possible, cross curricular links are made and to meet these aims, teachers plan Learning Journeys (topics) each term which cover a range of subjects as well as provide memorable learning experiences.
The children's learning is enriched by planning events such as art weeks, book and poetry weeks, science weeks, international days, music, drama and dance performances, sports tournaments and Forest schools activities.
Our excellent outside learning environment is used throughout the year to enrich and extend the learning. In Reception, we follow the Early Years Foundation Stage curriculum and in Years 1 to 6, we plan using the new National Curriculum.
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/early-years-foundation-stage-framework--2
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/national-curriculum
Each class is named after an animal from one of the seven continents.