How do we design our curriculum?

• Layton’s curriculum is bespoke to our context, our children and our school. We have used our expertise to engineer our curriculum to ensure pupils become secure in key concepts and key knowledge and build on this over time. 
• Our curriculum is tailored to both pupils’ needs and their experiences and fulfils all aspects of the National Curriculum.
• The staff at Layton have utilised their expertise to plan experiences, lessons and a scheme of work which ensures children develop a solid body of knowledge over time and revisit key concepts.
• We ensure pupils learn identified knowledge and engage critically with the content in order that they think deeply about what they have learned to develop their view of the world.
• We plan and deliver a spiral curriculum. This ensures children encounter specific knowledge several times during their education, each time in greater depth. This develops pupils’ knowledge over time.
• We utilise assessment for learning to ensure retrieval practice, across all subjects, is planned and targeted in order to ensure impact on learning over time.

How is our curriculum delivered?

We believe effective learning is a change in thinking and long-term memory, achieved over time, leading to a permanent change in understanding.

• At Layton, we believe effective learning is achieved through appropriate objectives which revise, consolidate, extend and apply a variety of knowledge and skills.
• Demonstrates high expectations through higher order questioning.
• Provokes learning and understanding; leading to the application and development of new and existing skills and knowledge.
• Provides children with the opportunity to question each other about their understanding and application.
• Develops independence through a high level of personal challenges and tasks which underpin learning.
• Develops critical thinking skills – reasoning, analysing, problem-solving, evaluating and making decisions.
• Our curriculum is based on asking questions as a basis for supporting learning; this supports critical thinking.
• Our foundation subject curriculum is divided into a series of questions which formulate the basis for knowledge to be learned.