Our Curriculum

Key Stage Intents

Early Years Foundation Stage

Our EYFS environment is set up to create independent and confident learners. The continuous provision is highly valued in crafting opportunities for all children to practise the skills that are part of the prime areas in EYFS. Play is essential for children’s development, building their confidence as they learn to explore, relate to others, set their own goals and solve problems. It is their use of the continuous provision that lays the foundations for children’s success in all other areas of learning.The specific areas of learning provide children with a broad curriculum and with opportunities to strengthen and apply the prime areas of learning. This is particularly important in developing language and extending vocabulary. Our EYFS ensures that children have sufficient opportunities to learn and reach a good standard in English language during their time in EYFS, ensuring children are ready to benefit from the opportunities available to them when they begin year 1. As children develop and continue their journey through the reception year, there is a greater focus on teaching the essential skills and knowledge in the specific areas of learning. This will help children to prepare for year 1.

Key Stage 1

Through a continuous cycle of learning, our pupils will be confident, independent learners by the end of Key Stage 1. They will be aware and respect the differences between themselves and others and see themselves as part of a greater community. In Key Stage 1 pupils are provided with high-quality education in English and it will teach pupils to speak and write fluently so that they can communicate their ideas and emotions to others. We ensure the continual development of pupils’ confidence and competence in spoken language and listening skills. We build curiosity and inspire awe and wonder through a concrete, active and broad curriculum to create unique individuals with aspirations as they move through the school. 

Lower Key Stage 2

The curriculum in Lower Key Stage 2 prepares children to know their sense of place. We ensure that pupils have a range of experiences that further develops their curiosity and encourages them to confidently ask questions and find answers, allowing them to become leaders of their own learning. Attention is paid to increasing pupils’ vocabulary, ranging from describing their immediate world and feelings to developing a broader, deeper and richer vocabulary to discuss abstract concepts and a wider range of topics, and to enhancing their knowledge about language as a whole. 

Upper Key Stage 2

By the time our pupils leave the Cravenwood Family, we ensure they are capable, confident and practiced learners. Through our broad curriculum, children develop their sense of self as a member of an ever-changing global setting, striving to make a positive impact. Through having a multitude of real-life experiences, pupils become increasingly adaptable to new situations and changes they will encounter. At Cravenwood pupils are prepared for the opportunities, responsibilities and experiences of later life. It is essential that, by the end of their primary education, all pupils are have strong morals, emotional intelligence and integrity and and can talk with confidence, in any subject in their forthcoming education into KS3.